User talk:Dddwww
DddwwwThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Equilibrium and copyright[[edit source]]
Hiya :) Hate to be a downer with my very first communication with you regarding your very first edit, but it's important to explain some fundamentals about this site. We will absolutely not be allowing a page on Equilibrium. It is, at this point, "fan fic by a published author". That means it's in violation of T:NO FANFIC.
Also, we do not tolerate the use of our site as a conduit for transmitting materials over which you do not personally have copyright. Just because a work was rejected by the BBC does not then mean that it is "copyright free". Simon A. Forward still retains copyright over Equilibrium, and it is a violation of his copyright interests to just pass on the work to others. But it's important to realise that he himself does not enjoy full liberty to release the work, since it doubtless involves characters over which he has no copyright. So he's left with situations and some characters that he owns, mixed in with characters and maybe some concepts, that he does not. In other words, he has a work he does not fully own.
But he still has some hope of using the material, since the BBC have started publishing past Doctor books again. Or he might be able to repurpose the situations in the books for an future Doctor. In any case, this wiki cannot be party to sharing the body of the original text of Equilibrium. Additionally, your solicitation of emails is a little worrying, as some of our users may be young and under the age where they can legally give an email. And certainly older users would be fairly silly to give their email addresses in an insecure environment like a forum thread.
Please do not speak of Equilibrium on this wiki again, in any context. It is not a thing this wiki covers or is interested in.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:50: Fri 04 Oct 2013
Christmas cheer[[edit source]]
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!
