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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. SmallerOnTheOutside ☎ 09:22, January 20, 2014 (UTC)

Production errors

Hi! Before you add any more production errors to story pages, please take a look at Tardis:Format for television stories#Production errors and Thread:137474. Many of the "errors" you have added are not considered errors by this wiki. Some specific examples of things that are not errors:

• production choices - for example, cardboard Daleks or multiple TARDIS props
• plot/continuity errors
• any discrepancy between the Doctor Who universe and the real world (see T:NO RW).

Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 02:07, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

This wiki has a pretty distinct difference between production errors and continuity errors. Production choices can never be production errors, because the production team chooses to use two TARDIS props or cardboard Daleks or whatever. Errors refers more to goofs, as described in the two articles I suggested for you.

I do, however, have a coupe of suggestions for you.

• Some of the things you've added would be more appropriate in the "Story notes" section of the story articles. All television story articles have such a section. You could write something like, "This story used two TARDIS props. The TARDIS for location shooting was blah blah blah, and the TARDIS used for studio recording was blah blah blah." I'm sure you get the idea. In fact, some of the stuff you're thinking of might be in the Story notes section already.
• In your post on my talk page, you mentioned continuity. We don't post continuity errors and plot holes on story pages; rather we have an entire section of the wiki devoted to such things. With your wealth of televised DW knowledge, you might be interested in taking a look. It's located at Theory:Discontinuity index (or you can go to the top navigation bar on any page, click Community, then Theories). On these pages you can post discontinuities/plot holes as well as answer others' postings.

As for your concern that there isn't any consistency in removing/not removing your posts, please keep in mind that there are far fewer editors on the wiki who know the rules than who don't. We are constantly adding new editors that don't know all the rules yet, and the admins and experienced users can't catch everything. The presence of an edit that breaks a rule doesn't mean the rule is invalid, it just means that it hasn't been noticed by someone familiar with the rule.

Thanks for your attention to this rather long post. Shambala108 ☎ 04:34, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. I wish all new users would take so little offense when they are corrected.

Looking over your newest posts, there are a couple of little things I want to bring to your attention. (I'm including links to the policies in question in case you're interested in reading them.)

• We italicize all story titles. (Tardis:Italics)
• When talking about the Doctor's (or other Time Lords') vehicles we use all caps — TARDIS. The lower case spelling is used only for the name of the wiki. (Tardis:TARDIS)
• Even though we use British spelling here, wiki coding requires us to use the American quotation system. (Tardis:Quotation marks)

Thanks again! Shambala108 ☎ 14:56, January 24, 2014 (UTC)