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The Invasion animation

Heya :) I note that you changed 2 entertain because you felt that BBCi actually sprang for the two animated Invasion eps. I'm having difficulties finding proof of this. Did they, in fact, debut as a red button feature on a BBC rebroadcast of The Invasion? If so, do you have proof of that event?

To be fair, I don't have any proof that 2 entertain paid for them, either. We have proof that 2 entertain copyrighted the relevant making-of featurette on the DVD ("Flash Frames"), but the episodes themselves are credited as "Cosgrove Hall for BBC TV", which doesn't help a whole lot. Any additional sources you could provide would be helpful. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 01:12, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:13: Tue 20 Dec 2011 

Vandalism at DVD page

Tangerineduel beat me to it: the page is now protected against edits by new or anonymous users. Thanks for the heads up, though! —Josiah Rowe ☎ 01:50, July 26, 2012 (UTC)

Monobook errors

I see you're a long-time WIkia editor so you're not going to like this answer. But you should have gotten a message at some point — though you may have dismissed it without reading. So it's my unpleasant task to tell you that Monobook is offered here on an as-is basis only. It sometimes goes out, particularly after Wikia have made a major revision. Which they did last week. I'll eventually get around to fixing it, once I figure out whether this is a bug that Wikia are going to correct, or if it's something for which I have to find a workaround. In the meantime, I strongly suggest that you switch to the Wikia/Oasis skin, where there are no such display errors. In short, Monobook will get fixed, but I can't give you an ETA at this stage.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 07:35: Wed 15 Aug 2012 

Ahhh, but the constriction of widths is its virtue, not its weakness. It forces us all to work to the same widths, which means it reduces squabbles about the placement of pictures, or the layout of tables. We all have 680px, exactly — whether we're reading or editing, whether we're looking at it on a 100-inch television or a 17-inch monitor. It's much better for collaboration.

And, if that's not good enough for you, then consider that it's simply what our host wants us to use. IP users cannot — full stop — use Monobook, and they're by far the biggest population of our community. Registered users have Oasis as the default. Wikia really don't consider Monobook at all in their decisions, which is why we locally have to offer it on an as-is basis. It's really only old fogies like you and me who care about the good ol' days with Monobook.

Don't worry, though: I put a lot of work into the Monobook skin. It'll return. Just be sure to pop up every now and again in the Oasis skin to check the way your edits appear to most people. There are some cases where it looks fine in Monobook but awful in Oasis. And we always have to consider the way pages look to the overwhelming majority of our readers. If you haven't already, you'll want to install this code, which will give you a nifty little button that allows you to switch to Oasis on demand without having to go through Special:Preferences.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 07:56: Wed 15 Aug 2012 

List of DW DVD releases

I've protected the page for 6 months. Hopefully the longer protection will protect the page and encourage those editors to create an account to edit on the page. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:43, November 1, 2012 (UTC)

DVD page

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for all the work you've done on the List of BBC DVD releases page.

I do have a question/favor. A little while back, someone added a 2014 section and added The Underwater Menace to it. They didn't include a source, so I slapped a "fact" tag on it. It's been almost a month, and nothing has changed. Can you check your sources to see if there's any mention of a release for The Underwater Menace? If you can't find any, I'll just delete the info for now. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 15:23, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

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Page history

Are you using Safari 7.0.1 — that is, Safari with Mavericks? If so, I, too, have been having problems with this, and have sent in bug reports to Wikia. It is not caused by any local coding, so I suggest you click here and submit a report. I know they are actively looking at the problem, so all bug reports will be useful. If you're not using Safari, a bug report would be especially useful. As we await a solution, I'd encourage you to switch to Chrome or Firefox, or even Opera, as none of these browsers have been known to exhibit the problem so far.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:29: Sun 16 Feb 2014

I have added your comments to my open bug report on this issue. Like you, it impacts me directly, since my preferred setup is also Safari 7.0.1/Mavericks. To let you know what I know at this point, the condition has improved since it was originally reported, in that it now affects fewer pages. There are some pages that will give you page histories. Wikia have taken steps to resolve related issues which appear to have helped this one. But it is not fully solved.

Please feel free to submit your own bug reports through Special:Contact/bug, or ask for an update on ones you have already submitted.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:01: Thu 20 Feb 2014

Series 8 titles

Hi! I know you mostly work on the Blu-ray/DVD release pages, so you may not be completely familiar with Tardis:Spoiler policy. Basically, even titles of unreleased stories are considered spoilers, so they can't be posted on the wiki until the story airs. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 14:17, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

Minor edits

Per Tardis:Edit summary, minor edits are only those that don't add or remove content from a page, like fixing a spelling error. Adding content to a page, like you've done quite extensively at List of Doctor Who documentaries, should definitely not be marked as minor. Thanks. P&P talk contribs 03:23, November 16, 2014 (UTC)

VHS page

Thanks for cleaning up the List of BBC VHS releases page. I've cleaned it up before, but later edits got past me. I've protected the page for now, so we shouldn't have this problem again. Shambala108 ☎ 00:19, January 13, 2015 (UTC)