User talk:Mini-mitch/Archive Talk 9

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Hidden cats

Got a reply back from Dopp today, which reads:

Thanks for contacting us about this issue. We've phased out that preference due to lack of use across Wikia, and anyone who still has it is grandfathered in until they select "Restore all default settings" in their preferences. We don't currently have a way of overriding this phase-out.

Hidden Categories still work, however, and you can see them in Category:Hidden categories and in your pages' source code (although i see that you're embedding them in templates, too, so that further complicates things). Apologies for the complications this raises. I hope the existing tools provide enough of a workaround for your team members to support the wiki.

I've responded with a feature request to just make it a standard admin power to see hidden categories. This is, I'm sure, technically possible, but I wouldn't hold out hope. If that change is technically easy — which it might be — then someone on the dev team might say, "Yeah, that's worth 1 minute of my time." If it's at all time-consuming, I wouldn't expect much action, because the move has a terrible cost/benefit ratio for Wikia. It's only a few big wikis like us, MemAlpha, and Wookieepedia that even care about hidden cats, despite the fact that they are in wide use on Wikipedia. So we're effectively asking for something for us, rather than a change that most of Wikia will actually use.

Basically, in your position, your only hope of access to hidden cats is to go to Hidden categories or Maintenance, where most of the hidden categories are attached.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:31: Fri 02 Mar 2012 

Rory's main page image

This is what you said last night when I edited the main image to the Rory page:

"SO what if its new - it's better to have a older, better quality quality picture than an badly cropped, poor quality newer one."

Now, to be honest I don't appreciate this as it quite rude really. The image is taken from a BBC One HD screencap - the quality is good, it is not poor. It's not badly cropped either - I just cropped Amy's hair out as it's not relevant to the Rory page is it?

There's no need to be rude like that. There really isn't.

I'm just doing this because I find it contradictory as Rory's current page image

should really be cropped as half of it doesn't contain Rory.

Portriat images on this wiki help the page flow much better which is what I was trying to do. The fact its a newer image too, which I've been told on here before is the best thing to have makes the page more upto date. That's a key thing surely?

The current landscape image scrunches the page up and doesn't make it flow well, so surely one that is much better for that, irrespective of whether it's super high quality is surely better? Beside, when the page is at it is, the image doesn't appear high quality until you click to see it full-sized, so surely my image, which is the same quality all the time is much more suitable?

I just hope you reconsider this as I didn't appreciate your rude reason last night. Atleast I've had constructive criticism before in the past, not just plain rudeness, so I'll leave it at that.

--Bbll22 ^{talk to me} 11:38, March 4, 2012 (UTC)

Voice actors

Thanks for the great suggestion! {{{voice actor}}} is now a part of {{Infobox Individuals}}. I've also thrown in {{{other actor}}} for those cases of performances of characters in limited narrative circumstances, like youth/age/alternate universe/because Frazer Hines got sick/because William Hartnell inconveniently died. See them in operation at Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:42: Sun 11 Mar 2012 

Cardiff, Wales

Personally, I'm not sure either way. Though putting "[Earth country], Earth" I would absolutely never do. I completely agree Cardiff, Wales, UK, Earth isn't right.

I think I put it up because of the way it flows more than it being necessary. What would you say about smaller towns like Foxgrove or Dry Springs with that pattern? -- Tybort (talk page) 20:45, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I wasn't thinking of that at all. I was fine with [City] for major cities and [City], [Country/State] for smaller and fictitious places. I considered the [City] style was because most people know what you mean by London, Liverpool, Beijing and so forth and you wouldn't for much smaller villages and [City], [Country/State] would be okay for them. I was just double checking you thought that was okay. -- Tybort (talk page) 20:54, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

I gather you intend the same pattern for story infoboxes as well? -- Tybort (talk page) 20:55, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

Requested variables

• Home era/Era active/anything like it. No. Just no. Not going into that minefield again. It's out for good. As you'll remember, in the thread Forum:Home Era you yourself de-activated the line after a lengthy discussion that was well attended by a lot of people. As far as I'm concerned, you determined the consensus on the matter and implemented change based on that consensus. If you want it back, now, you'll have to reverse yourself and get it approved through the forums. And it does rather look like both I and Tangerineduel were strongly opposed to it in the original discussion, so I wouldn't expect a reversal from either of us, unless you come up with arguments not originally put forward. I've got a bot run planned to eliminate all that data, based on the original consensus, so if you're going to start a new discussion, please let me know in the next 24 hours, or the point will be moot anyway.
• Affiliation is a part of {{Infobox Individual}}, as has been written up in the documentation.

So that's two for three on new variable requests. That's pretty good. Keep 'em comin'! (But please use Forum:New infoboxes and you from now on, so that it's all centralised.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:44: Sun 11 Mar 2012 

New achievements

Any chance I might be able to get you to find me some appropriate images from MA covers which would complete the MA novels achievement track that's in place at tardistest? I've got all the level names done, but I never got around to getting pics.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:33: Sun 11 Mar 2012 

Eighth Doctor infobox pic

Hey, sorry to jump on it so quickly, but I've deleted the pic you just uploaded for the Eighth Doctor. That pic, or one very like it, was what was on the page for a long time, and then deliberately deleted, per the discussion at talk:Eighth Doctor#Infobox pic. The one in the elevator was arrived at after quite a bit of discussion and it's actually pretty great. Is it left-looking? No, but it's not right-looking, and the body angles are all slanted left, because he's standing left, but looking up.

A part of the deal in changing out these doc pics is to emphasize the need for, as much as is allowed by the body of work of the actor, extreme closeups in infoboxes.

The elevator shot ticks the boxes of a great infobox pic, and, moreover, it was agreed through discussion. What we really need is a more characteristic Tenth Doctor pic that's tight, left looking and preferably smiling rather than the dour I'm-about-to-die thing that's currently going on. I could look for it, but I need to get back to infoboxes.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:35: Wed 14 Mar 2012 

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hi, did you delete a page called World Of The Giants?

hi, i am called Mini-Mitch and i am a donkey.

Picture on Hop Pyleen

Why did you remove File:Pyleen.jpg from the Hop Pyleen article?Americanwhofan ^{talk to me} 17:01, March 24, 2012 (UTC)

Zygon

Yeah, sorry, lemme explain. Both Wikipedia and Tardis wiki suggested that the Zygons appeared int this episode, so I searched through the episode, looked at all the scenes with pods, and found that the Zygon was either this or this, possibly some horrendous re-imagining, and after studying the clip, I realized that it was obviously the first. I have increased the pictures quality and found a better frame, so I hope you can now see it. compare File:Zygons Attack of the Graske.jpg to File:Mo zy01.jpg. You can defiantly see the yellow-head-sucker-coral-things on his head.... OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 22:37, March 28, 2012 (UTC)

MA GOR

Yeah, I was kinda wondering what happened to the MA thing. Do me a favour and just upload the raw pictures you've got to w:c:tardistest. That is, completely bypass Special:AchievementsCustomize and upload them normally. I'll then take the raw pics and figure out what to do about the rest. Thanks for your work on this so far!

As for Confidential, yes, absolutely go for it. By the way, the new conflicts one may seem silly at first since there are so few pages in the category, but I'm going to be doing a major revamp on the infobox that will give people something to play with for a bit. Lots of little fiddly changes to make, so I figured people should be rewarded. Kinda the same logic as the classic series editing track. And that's worked well; people seemed to have rallied in the cause to make sure the novelisation gets put into the infobox, and to sorta condense the infobox language.

There'll probably be a few more achievement tracks to support new infoboxes over the coming days. I've got about 10 planned, which means that realistically 5 will materialise.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:56: Fri 30 Mar 2012 

Infoboxes

Sorry about that! I must have missed that forum discussion. I've been taking a break from the Wiki for a while. I'm removing them now anyway. I assume that the same rule applies to "(regenerates)" in a Doctor's final story? Oh, and thanks for the compliment!

--GusF ^{talk to me} 20:06, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

GOR: CON

Your pics all look great, and I really like the motif of using CON narrators! I've gone ahead and started the track here at tardis. All you need do is add your pics to the mix. Note that the track is called "CON episodes edit track", as I'm getting in a quick name change to the category before the track is enabled. Within the next few minutes, all CON episodes will be under the simplified name Category:CON episodes.

I've gone ahead and saved new names for each award at Special:AchievementsCustomize. Here's a little trick about naming that I didn't understand at first. When choosing names, we need to remember that the name of the award appears in the context of a sentence which goes "Blah blah blah the "<award name>" badge blah blah blah". Therefore, to make the sentence work best, we don't want to start with the or end with award, cause that would mean we'd get a sentence that went "Blah blah blah the "The <award name> Award" badge blah blah". So I've tinkered with the names to make them fit the sentence.

Anyway, this one looks done to me. Feel free to add your pics and enable the track at any time. Thanks for the great track!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:52: Tue 03 Apr 2012 

stubs

I disagree Boblipton ^{talk to me} 13:07, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Both. Why have a category for stubs if one is not to use them? Nor do I believe that the extra space between the sections makes the page look worse. It makes it look better. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 13:25, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Dimensions in Time

Look, I know you apparently don't like File:Big_Ron_Hole_Frame.jpg, But I think it works very well at thumbnail size, despite your suggestion that you "can't tell what it is..." I also DID put it through colour correction and sharpening the file... Certainly you can see that in the file history section... But, like I said, It's easy to make the image out, and it dosen't look THAT bad up close, just a bit graphic-y... But as a thumbnail it looks fine. I truly don't see what's wrong with it... OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 21:29, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

Images

Why do you keep deleting my images for being more than 250px? Isn't the rule that it can't be LESS than 250px? I know for one that File:Varga.jpg was at least 400px on the original upload. So in other words, there was no reason to delete it for size. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 15:45, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

Ops! I meant to link to File:Varga2.jpg... Yeah, I have been trying to clean up my images before uploading them, and I'm going to try and get a better copy of Attack of the Cybermen out. I tried very hard to update and clean up File:Peri main less blurry.jog, and I thought it looked pretty good, especially compared to pictures I uploaded next to it. I had even tried to make the pixilated-bit more clear. But besides these two images I mostly understand the problems you have. 18:00, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

You did actually delete File:Varga2.jpg erroneously. It was, as far as I could see, completely within T:ICC. I've restored it. It certainly wasn't <250px, but rather above 400px. Since there are no telesnaps available from the 60s, the only place we can get an in-universe image is City of Daleks, so OS25's shot is just about the best we're gonna get. I'd already deleted a previous attempt of his for poor aspect ratio, and the newest Varga2.jpg was in full compliance with my requests.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:11: Mon 09 Apr 2012 

External Links

1: Every time I look at the "Manual of Style" I am overcome with a desire to rephrase it in grammatical English.

2: It is hard enough to learn to write properly without learning how a bunch of people who cannot do so have voted their ineptitude into stone.

3: If at any time it becomes impossible for you to go through the effort of correcting my editing to match what these people imagine to be English, then simply revoke my editing privileges and I will go perform my unpaid labor where it is more highly regarded.

4: I suggest you try to avoid an air of moral superiority. It reads as smug bullying. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 12:58, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

I have done that. I have done it several times when unasked and always do so when asked. In fact, I believe I did so once (unasked) with you when you insisted on inserting commas where they were flat out wrong and explained to you how to identify the cases in the future. Whether you recall or not is not of any particular interest to me, just as this entire series of exchanges is of no interest to me. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 13:10, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

MOS

Why have rules if they are not to be enforced? Not my problem. My problem is why do I have brains if I don't think? Then, once I've thought, why do I have the ability to write well if I don't?

As your question and my two questions seem to run up against each other, I don't see much future in this discussion. However, by all means think well of yourself.Boblipton ^{talk to me} 00:32, April 11, 2012 (UTC)

Minnie hooper

minnie hooper appears in the screencaps try find the best image for it

and use paint just in case to delete someone in the background

--User:JarodMighty 14:10, April 11, 2012 (UTC)

Beware GOR over-saturation

Didn't realise you'd snuck in an SJA television stories GOR track. Let's give a rest to the SJS/K9-themed story tracks, shall we? We've got SJ audio stories, K9 TV stories, and SJA TV stories, meaning that we've created quite a number of double-point-value editing opportunities. The little loopholes at Romana I and Romana II — being in both the companion and individual Time Lord edit tracks — are bad enough, but now you've got easily 10 pages that are going to offer double points. We can leave it on for a bit, but if it becomes clear that people are making a lot of trivial edits to Invasion of the Bane or The Gift, we'll need to yank one of the two.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:53: Wed 18 Apr 2012 

Good God, man! No need to apologise about being bold. I'm jazzed that you slipped another editing track in there. And there's a particular need to pull any of these out of rotation — yet. In fact, I'm going to re-enable SJS audio, because very few people have actually done a lot of work with those, judging by the medal count. And looking at the pages, they can certainly use some work.

Double-point pages are just something to consider when making new tracks. Overlap isn't in itself bad. It's just that it creates a kind of "exploit" for the game. If people are abusing it, then, sure, you have to get rid of it. But if people are adding valuable material to the article, because they're attracted by the double-point values, then the overlap is actually working for us. It's just something you have to casually monitor.

If it does come to having o disable something, though, you're right in that it should be the K9 track. What's happened there is that my enabling of a track for all classic stories has overlapped your broader K9 track. If it were "K9 TV series", that'd be fine. But because it's "K9 television stories", then there's a good 20 pages for which you get "double points". Again, though, until it really looks like it's becoming a problem with several competitors, I don't mind awarding double points as people bring the new infobox into full use.

And, for the record, you don't need my "permission" or anything like that to do an edit track. I'm certainly happy to be here to bounce ideas off, but if you get inspired, don't let me stop ya!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:33: Wed 18 Apr 2012 

User:Finister-S, User:Retsinif, etc

Hey, good catch on those sock puppet accounts.... I just wanted to point out that User:Finisterman follows the same name-basis, and only began editing after a long break yesterday. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 19:53, April 22, 2012 (UTC)

Duplicate Badges

Hi :)

I've just been looking through your badge list, and I have noticed that one of the badges occurs more than once. The Badge is "The Time Lords Doff Their Bowlers At Your Editing Skill" (for making 50 edits on Time Lords). Is this a technical error, or does this actually guarantee you more points in the game?

Layton4 15:57, April 23, 2012 (UTC)

{{{only}}}

Your recent message on User talk:OttselSpy25 reminded me that I'd forgotten to include a variable for the case of the single appearance. I've now added it to {{Infobox Location}}, {{Infobox Individual}}, {{Infobox Object}} and {{Infobox Species}}. If you define | only=story name, then it'll put up a label of Appearance: (in the singular) and list the story name beside it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:04: Wed 25 Apr 2012 

TVA

Apparently you read my user talk page and decided to take positive action on Boblipton's request. I, on the other hand, rejected his request, so I reverted your change. In context, but is the more appropriate conjunction, since it introduces a contrasting point. It's unexpected that a title should have ended on a different title than the one on which it started, so but better alerts the reader to pay attention to the changed circumstance.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:42: Fri 27 Apr 2012 

Delete?

Why did you delete the william hartnell years?SpongeTron 5000 ^{talk to me} 22:33, April 29, 2012 (UTC)

Deletion

oK then, sorry, just thought I could help because I have a father who is a big fan of Doctor Who, especially the older ones, and he would like to know wich ones where available on DVD so he goes on this website but the Bbc dvd releases are bit muble jumbled, so i thought i could sort things out.

Thanks

Thanks for the note I'll keep it in mind. I don't have any VHSs but certaintely do have DVDs that I can give more info on.SpongeTron 5000 ^{talk to me} 06:24, April 30, 2012 (UTC)

Captain Jack and 10th Doctor images

Would you happen to know which story the current Jack picture comes from? It isn't tagged, which, in addition to the fact that it almost looks too good, is why I changed it.

And, since I'm new to the whole cropping for infoboxes thing, how do I keep something widescreen when I'm cropping? Is that why you reverted the image I used on the 10th Doctor's page as well? Memnarc ^{talk to me} 21:37, April 30, 2012 (UTC)

No, I understand it's not a personal thing. I'm all for constructive criticism if it helps me be a better editor. Memnarc ^{talk to me} 04:28, May 2, 2012 (UTC)

The united states involvement

i belive last time i was here i left a question on you page about the reason you have eraced the US Departement of Reasearch and developments page, i do expact a reson why when key careters in Dr who like Crnal. Stark (dreamland "animated story") and River Song are involved in it directly and indirectly. could you add an explanation and do i halft to redo it?

66.213.50.2^{talk to me} 15:22, May 1, 2012 (UTC) THE EPIC AMERICAN

i found the history of timelords

you're gonna like it:

http://www.oocities.org/willbswift/index.html

http://www.curufea.com/rassilon/old/index.html

--User:JarodMighty 18:42, May 2, 2012 (UTC)

Image size

My apologies. There was a typo in T:IUP that I didn't catch because I had transferred most of my editing time to T:ICC. The rough upper limit of our policy is 100 kb. The pre-written deletion reason says a file is just too damn big once it exceeds 1 mb (though in practice I start deleting at 200 kb and over, unless there's a damn good reason not to). The maximum MediaWiki (i.e. software) limit is 10 mb, though I have seen some things slightly bigger than that. Dunno if that means the system message is a lie or what.

In easy-to-read list form:

• 100kb — our basic limit (some exceptions allowed)
• 200kb - strongly consider deletion or, if you have time, compression
• around 1mb — the point at which you really have to delete
• 10mb — the official maximum size

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:36: Fri 04 May 2012 

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Hello I would just like to ask why you deleted my edit to Omega(the time lord) on his involvement in the time war.it was unnecessary as it was a valid piece of info for a time lord page. thank you for your time and RoscoCorp would appreciate your co-operation in this matter. --Coop3 ^{talk to me} 15:56, May 5, 2012 (UTC)

Shend

Shend's IMDB page says his real name is Chris Harz, as well as his date and place of birth. The link is right on his article. If you think it's worth mentioning his real name (personally, I don't see why not), I'd appreciate it if you put my contribution back.

Sláinte mhaith! - Hobbes (Talk) 19:51, May 5, 2012 (UTC)

Okay, that's understandable. However, Shend was a member of a band called The Very Things, and they, too, list his birth name as Chris Harz. It's not a big deal, so I won't pester you about it. If you don't think this information is credible and/or it's unimportant, that's that.

Cheers!

Sláinte mhaith! - Hobbes (Talk) 20:08, May 5, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Icon Image

Feel free to delete it if you want to. I don't really need it. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 06:35, May 6, 2012 (UTC)

Chat

I asked for something similar when the feature was introduced. They didn't see the value of it then. And in truth, given the inactivity of our chat room, I can see their point. If they give you a different response, of course I'll be interested to know.

As I've thought about it since, I'm not sure I really want something that's auto-recording chat. Text chat is so easily misunderstood, especially by third parties who are viewing it later. Our chat policy has given us adequate protection so far.

Has there been a recent incident in chat that has suddenly concerned you?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:07: Mon 07 May 2012 

Don't forget that when there is a problem, you can cut and paste the contents of the chat window. The window remembers everything for as long as you've had the window open. So as long as the window hasn't aborted at a crucial moment, you can make records of incidents, such as User:CzechOut/Chat paste. It's crude, but it does at least work as a way to preserve a conversation.

By the way, tomorrow a lot of enhancements will be coming to chat. If you're unaware of them, do check out community:User blog:Sarah Manley/Updates to Wikia Chat.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:11: Tue 08 May 2012 

PNG

Promotional or not, the image was a PNG, which, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe aren't looked on favorably when it comes to main images. Or is it just screenshots that shouldn't be PNG? And for that matter, aren't promotional images supposed to be restricted to situations when a screenshot is unavailable? Memnarc ^{talk to me} 10:44, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

here's my revelation to you, not an excuse

Message: The 3 reasons

Dear - Mini-mitch

1) - im sorry i didn't mean to i didn't know before. its not that it wasn't that its because i found the website for the DW HD Screencaps and i use it for pictures to put it this site that's why i found the right perfect resolution or quality to use it for this wikia instead of cropped or bad qualities to use.

2) - i am the Greatest Ultimate Fan" to the episode of David Tennant's Final Two-part Episodes called: The End of Time that's why i do it all the time to put pictures here.

And 3) - i don't know how to delete the pictures out of this wikia i didn't quite got the hang of it i can't find it to delete them can you teach how to do it?

Note: Tragical History Tour

here's the link what i got the pictures from: Tragical History Tour Website

Caution - Go to the word Pages:

The Space Museum: Screencaps of The 1st Doctor

The Mind Robber: Screencaps of The 2nd Doctor

Carnival of Monsters: Screencaps of The 3rd Doctor

Pyramid of Mars: Screencaps of The 4th Doctor

Enlightenment: Screencaps of The 5th Doctor

Mindwarp: Screencaps of The 6th Doctor

Ghost Light: Screencaps of The 7th Doctor

The Enemy Within: Screencaps of The 8th Doctor

Bad Wolf: Screencaps of The 9th Doctor

The Sound of Drums: Screencaps of The 10th Doctor

The Eleventh Hour: Screencaps of The 11th Doctor

And Finally last but not least: The Master List - The index to All Screencaps

"good luck, mini-mitch you deserve it now"

Sincerely: --JarodMighty 12:48, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

P.S. - This Message is to inform you about the website "Not" Vandalism

Images

okay, aren't you going a bit over with the hole "I need to delete images" thing? Most of the images that you deleted were fine, and did not need to be deleted. I find it easier to believe it with my older pics, but some of the newer ones you deleted for "<250px" I know for a fact were longer than 250px. Images like File:Prelude Transit.jpg weren't really that bad, and that image in particular would have worked well on the Prelude Transit page. File:Sixth Doctor.jpg's only issue was tHat it wasn't a good info box image, and could have been used elsewhere. On the wiki out main priority should not be to delete all unused images, especially those that can be used in the future. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 12:53, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

File:Backtime.jpg was not Colourized. The comic was printed in a mix of colour and black and white. The first page of every issue would be put in colour, the rest would be printed from colour. Thus File:Backtime.jpg was not colorised. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 14:39, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

gonna stop?, sure.

ok i'll do it

but you mean on my profile that i put on it?

or the pictures of what i put on these pages? where is it?

give me the names, mini-mitch

--User:JarodMighty 12:59, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

im sad and upset now, why would you let me do 3 pictures i am the Greatest Ultimate Fan to: The Shining World of The Seven System , The Final Day of The Great Purge of The Cataclysm and The Great Gods of Time

Especially The Weapon of God-Knows-what Machinery of Mass Destruction in One Second Too.

thats why i was trying to create the greatest gallery of all

--User:JarodMighty 13:49, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

i am Polite now

i wasn't ignoring you just telling the truth to you and these website links are not spam they are real and non-spam.

and have you got a webcam or Facebook?

--User:JarodMighty 14:20, May 9, 2012 (UTC)

User image policy

Not following you around today, honest! This guy JarodMighty posted right in the middle of the conversation I was having with OS25. His comments, being non sequitor, obviously made no sense. So I had to go to his talk page and figure out what he was talkin about. And there I stumbled across your attempts to manage his user images.

I just wanted to point out that you keep saying people are only allowed "3 images on their user pages". This is not actually what the policy says. It says people are allowed three user images, and then goes on to specifically define what a user image is.

As far as I can see, he doesn't actually have any user images on his page. All of them could potentially be used in articles. There is no limit to the number of images one can have on one's user page. The limit is on those images defined as "user images". Roughly speaking, this means images that are so personal they could only plausibly be used on that particular user's page.

Basically, the rule exists to stop people turning their user pages into their vacation albums or their fanon repository. It's not at all trying to limit their use of imagery that is, or could be, used in other namespaces.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:42: Wed 09 May 2012 

arthur wallis?

The IMDB, which is not a reliable source but is something that should be paid some attention to, claims that Arthur Wallis is a stage name for Nicholas Briggs. Given it's a BBV production...Boblipton ^{talk to me} 22:53, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Googled "Nicholas Briggs pseudonym and wikipedia was the first hit. Wikipedia says Arthur Wallis is Briggs' pseudonym. I also found this link:

http://www.spokeo.com/Nicholas+Briggs+1

states it clearly. I can't figure out the sources.23:15, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

I have added the following statement to the Arthur Wallis page:

Some sources indicate that both names [David Sax is the other] are pseudonyms for Nicholas Briggs. This has not been confirmed to the standards of this wiki.

I hope that will be ok until we can confirm or deny properly. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 22:02, May 17, 2012 (UTC)

Untitled message 2

Hi mini mitch. I would just like to inform you of my so called "speculation". It is not speculation, it is fact as it is clearly obvious that the little girl is faith and anyone who doesnt think this hasnt been watching torchwood properly. Just thought i would say. --Coop3 ^{talk to me} 12:59, July 9, 2012 (UTC)

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why did you remove my point that UNIT is returning, this hs been confirmed, can you please put it back on

reply

I understand that it wasn't an official source, but those are real pictures depicting UNIT in series 7, i recently found another picture of commander Strax from a good man goes to war in a suit! returning alongside Jenny and Vastra. [1] Can i at least put them into the rumours section, after all, rumours are speculation.

vandalism

153.107.97.153 has been vandalizing the article The Doctor.Boblipton ☎ 00:43, July 20, 2012 (UTC)

Melody pond

Hi there this is just a request that you do not delete my page on melody pond (little girl) and my future one about mels. If every other main person with has a page on each of their regenerations, then why shouldnt river? She has three known ones and she is the doctors wife. Who is more important than that? Just a request as it is a valid page and there is no point having all rivers info crammed into one page. If you have any further queries, contact me. --Coop3 ☎ 18:50, July 27, 2012 (UTC)--Coop3 ☎ 18:50, July 27, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry i cannot accept your request as i was not involved in this discussion as i have an different view and so i will keep doing this until my point is made. --Coop3 ☎ 09:03, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

Forum

How do you xreate a forum discussion?. --Coop3 ☎ 15:19, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

Blocking error

Hi there on my doctor who answers wiki page it says blocked beside my name. I would just like to ask if you could figure out why I was blocked as nobody has messaged me the reason for my block. Thank you for your assistance in this matter and I would be grateful if you could reply ASAP. --Coop3 ☎ 19:11, July 31, 2012 (UTC)

Chrome error

Would you mind writing up a tech notes forum thread describing exactly what extension (that is to say, extension and version number) caused a problem with the site while viewing Tardis? Other Chrome users might have a similar problem, and could benefit from your wisdom. Thanks!  :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:15: Thu 02 Aug 2012 

Post upgrade errors

• Front page: fixed
• Categories not line wrapping: not an error. If you can explain why it's a big deal, I'll look into more. Otherwise, this default condition of MediaWiki 1.19 doesn't seem that troubling to me.
• People appearing to edit categories in wiki activity list: Again, not a big deal to me. It's a curiosity, I guess. I can't quite figure out the pattern, so I'm not sure how I would approach fixing it. Besides, I'm not entirely convinced there's an actual bug here. There's only one case I can't readily explain out of the last 100 edits. Why do you think this is a big deal?
• Null on preview. Yeah, that's a bug. Happening at more than one wikia site, so I've reported it to wikia. Confirmed to be a MW 1.19 bug, as it only happens on those wikis which have transitioned to the new version. (w:c:aybs, for instance, doesn't do this). It only seems to happen when one is editing a section of a page; can't get it to display null when editing a whole page.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:27: Wed 08 Aug 2012 

UPDATE: On the "null" issue, here's the reply from Wikia:

Rappy, Aug 10 02:24 am (UTC): Hey CzechOut,

Thanks for contacting Wikia. This bug is currently known and should be fixed with next weeks code rollout. It should only show up when there are no categories assigned to the page (or within the section) when previewing.

Thanks for taking the time to report it.

Timothy Collins Wikia Community Support

Aug 08 11:39 pm (UTC): User CzechOut reports a problem with feature "page previews".

URL to problem page: any page

Description of issue:

Both here and at Wookieepedia, when one tries to edit a section, and the preview the section, one gets a little word "null" at the bottom left of the preview pane. It doesn't transfer to the text when you publish, but it's likely confusing to newbies. I've tested at a completely java/css-free wiki, aybs.wikia.com, and it doesn't appear to happen there. But it is consistently repeatable at Tardis and Wookiee and iCarly. The fact that it's happening at iCarly means that it almost certainly has nothing to do with the js which is common to both Tardis and Wookiee. The common denominator seems to be MW 1.19, which is not yet running at aybs.wikia.com. So, this is almost certainly a 1.19 bug.

On the category no wrap issue, here's the thread at the Admin tech forum. No one has replied in the past coupla days though.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:39: Sat 11 Aug 2012 

FURTHER UPDATE: The "null" issue will definitely be solved by this week's patch, which is due to hit on Thursday. The category wrapping issue has been solved by a CSS workaround, but it's also been identified as unintended behaviour by Wikia staff. So, well done, sir! You caught a bug they'd not noticed!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:06: Tue 14 Aug 2012 

Why did you undo my edits?

Why did you undo my edit to Pond Life??? I've actually watched the episodes - the information I put down is correct. If this is an example of IP bias I can see why folks avoid this website like the plague. Have you undone all my edits? If so why should I continue contributing to this site? (PS: As my ISP changes my IP occasionally, replying to my IP is probably useless. I will monitor the talk page at Pond Life for your reply and explanation. Thanks.) 70.72.211.35^{talk to me} 12:46, August 30, 2012 (UTC)

Logo page

You was over-zealous when you reverted that edit. If you did it because the BBC logo was on the image, then just delete the image! I've put the text back in, using the undo function (the edit you reverted also included a couple of typo corrections), but made sure the image links were still gone.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  01:17,9/2/2012 

DivorcePapers.jpg

Weird. I just overwrote your version of file:DivorcePapers.jpg without getting a single warning. I had no idea there was a pre-existing file of that name, nor did the system present me with a challenge. It just accepted that my file was called "DivorcePapers.jpg" and overwrote yours. I wonder if something has changed in MW 1.19 about this. Anyway, sorry — it wasn't intentional. That said, I appear to have caught the image a few frames later where her hand wasn't in the way, so maybe the "Williams" is more legible in my version.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍   17:10: Sun 02 Sep 2012

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

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!