User talk:MankaCat
MankaCatThanks 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!
We've got a couple of important quirks for a Wikia wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
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We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
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Placebo Effect[[edit source]]
Thanks for your recent move of Placebo Effect to Placebo Effect (novel). Although this was an absolutely reasonable move, according to our disambiguation policies, it's not good to just move a title without also moving the corresponding links. Because this link moving is often tedious, it's generally best to leave it to a bot, or robotic process. For this reason, I generally request that all page moves having to do with disambiguation be posted to my talk page so that a complete move can be effected quickly. If you go to my talk page, you'll see many such requests. It really takes no more than a sentence which says, "Move from <title> to <title>". Thanks :)
Incidentally, all the several hundred links have now been moved to Placebo Effect (novel).
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 03:46: Thu 08 Dec 2011
Categories[[edit source]]
Hi, I've undone your edit to "Death to the Daleks!" as the page already has Category:Dalek audio stories which itself is a sub-category of Category:Dalek stories. Any page that has a category that is a sub-category of Cat:Dalek stories does not have to have it added because it is already within the Dalek stories category by being within one of its subcategories. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:49, December 13, 2011 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:30: Tue 20 Dec 2011
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!
