User talk:SOTO/Archive 3

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First Strax Field Report

So what's your rationale for starting an article about something that contains a spoiler, however mild, about the 50th anniversary?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:34: Fri 31 May 2013

The only time limit on addressing violations of T:SPOIL is the point when the story is released in full. So if this were 24 November, you'd have a point. As it's not, you don't.

People ask all the time, "Why didn't you say something at the time?" The answer is extraordinarily simple. It's a big wiki, there's a lot going on, and there's no way that any automated process could have possibly detected this kind of policy violation. I had to simply happen across it. Which I did today. If someone went to an obscure page and rewrote it to contain plausible — but 100 percent false — information, it's quite possible that it wouldn't be found for months. Elapsed time doesn't make the action "okay".

This thing is an advertisement for a future story containing behind the scenes footage which mildly spoils the fiftieth anniversary story. And in the same way that trailers about future stories or interviews which contain info about future stories are not allowed, neither is this. The very location around which the report centres is a spoiler. So, it's going bye-bye, and I'm probably going to scrub all references to the name of thing, too. And I'll be locking down Strax Field Report, too. This little series has actually been quite detrimental to those wanting to keep themselves away from all spoilers. I can think of at least two pieces of information it gave out about future stories: the name of episode 14 and a location in episode 15. Well no more. It's an advert, pure and simple, and it's not eroding the surprises of the fiftieth any further on this wiki.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:40: Fri 31 May 2013

David Melbourne page error

SOTO, I fixed that for you. <ref name=Who-ology></> should've been <ref name="Who-ology" />.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  13:23,1/6/2013 

Rhenborg

Thank you for cleaning the article up for me. Would it be ok to include the article in the websites category too, considering that the article is kind of about his website as well? or not

Thank you from brand new user Paul8McGann ☎ 22:57, June 1, 2013 (UTC)

Pipes in infoboes

As stated at Thread:133001, please don't manually correct missing/additional pipes in infoboxes, as you recently did at Just War. I'm literally running the bot right now to correct all that.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:15: Tue 04 Jun 2013

Religion

I think you need stop and bring it to the forum whether we want to start going down the road of religious classification of individuals. Category:Leaders of the early Christian church is one thing, because that's actually a cat about an organisation. Actually identifying people by their religion is getting into a sensitive territory. Yes, we do have some stories that deal with Catholic/Protestant conflicts, but how finely do we want to take it? Does the fact that there's a wedding in a Christian church in Father's Day mean those people are Christians? I think I'd be more comfortable if we kept the category away from the general area of belief and more towards people who were officially a part of a church (or the heads of church-dominated states). I think Category:Protestants could swiftly become a matter of great speculation, and thereby fall foul of T:CAT NAME. Don't forget, too, that a lot of people fought on the Catholic or Protestant side not because it was their actual religious preference, but because the style of government a particular leader represented was to their liking. And, yanno, whatcha gonna call Henry VIII, since he "converted" (to be super-generous to him) mid-life?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  16:24: Wed 05 Jun 2013

I'd still prefer this as a community discussion rather than notes on user pages. It's fairly complicated and maybe others will have useful input.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:03: Wed 05 Jun 2013

Wikipedia

T:NOT WP, T:EVIL TWIN, and T:SPOIL ALLOW all combine to say that you shouldn't create a link to a spoiler, however mild, in the user talk namespace. Forget about the merits of your discussion—you shouldn't even have asked the question on my user talk page. Please be careful in future that you don't ask questions which themselves contain or link to spoilers.

On the merits of the question, nothing is changed by what WP:DW are doing. We're not going to be having a space that allows for spoilers for the 50th. Surely you've by now seen the clear message at, amongst other places, MediaWiki:Community-corner.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:37: Thu 06 Jun 2013

I don't want to be shown it. I'm not sure why you're so insistent on having a page that's going to attract spoilers within the context of our "spoil the 50th anniversary and you'll be infinitely blocked" thing. But I'd urge you to please move on, rather than flogging dead horses.

There is no interpretation of T:SPOIL ALLOW that will give you what you seek here. The specials are genuinely specials. Given what we know now, it/they is/are like The Five Doctors. It/they form their own production block and appear to be separately contracted from either series 7 or series 8. Now, hey, maybe when we get the DWMSE review of series 8, we'll discover that actually it/they is/are a part of series 8. But nothing suggests that right now. At all. In the slightest. It's not a part of a series, so therefore there is no series page, so therefore there is no spoiler-allowed space. That's why a temporary policy about the 50th anniversary was required, which is where there are several prominent messages saying "no spoilers anywhere about the 50th".

Oh, and spoiling in chat isn't allowed either, yanno, as made very clear by the chat welcome message.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:26: Thu 06 Jun 2013

SOTO, seriously. Flogging. Dead Horse. You are. The policy on the 50th anniversary special(s) is very clear, and repeated in several places. Nothing. Anywhere. Period. But I will make it even clearer at the series 8 page.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  16:33: Fri 07 Jun 2013

Speedy

Please don't use speedy rename if you're suggesting a fundamental name change. You've suggested, for instance, a change from Girl Technician to Female technician (Day of the Daleks) and I don't know the reason why. There's no other Female Technician in the database, so I'm not getting the reason for the dab term, and I don't really know why you're changing from Girl to Female? Which issue of the story is allowing you to make that suggestion?

speedy rename is only for a completely indisputable name change.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:22: Sat 08 Jun 2013

Dates

DWU days will be fully reopened in about 2 minutes. Except of course for 1 June.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:00: Thu 13 Jun 2013

Special:Chat, please.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:05: Thu 13 Jun 2013

Complying to Help You Out

Yeah, that occurred to me earlier. I had that sneaky suspicion you were going to ask me to jump over to a preferred section of the dates so I didn't smudge up your efforts to get the work done. It's all part of the sorting process. So now that you have requested me to move, I will. We all know the badges are enjoyable "brownie points", but I'm a certified Eagle Scout and I like things spic and span around the high-caliber wikis. Speaking of badges, I'm quietly waiting for the day we can have doctors 9 and onward up in the badge list, but that will have to take a number XD. --Thunderush ☎ 02:59, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

Caught me just in time for the heads-up. So begins the long editing grind. --Thunderush ☎ 03:12, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to stop once I bump up my badge at or near to the 100 mark and rest. That's around 20-30 pages, give or take 3 or 4 edits required per day to move info. --Thunderush ☎ 03:26, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

Understood. I'm copy-pasting from Notepad and checking for braces around multiple instances of years to keep them in order. --Thunderush ☎ 03:37, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

I completed January and used it as a good stopping place. For now, just a few edits around the main Years pages and I'm signing off for the night. 1 February is the next one to change. --Thunderush ☎ 06:17, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

Date pages

Please don't overwrite comic story release entries. Since all media are equal, you shouldn't be giving more apparent attention to the comic stories than you do the televised ones. Note the following diff:

• http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=3_October_%28releases%29&diff=1495991&oldid=1495989

Thanks!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:22: Mon 17 Jun 2013

Not a problem

Sure! I don't mind going back to the days that need splitting. These previous days were a short and necessary reprieve from editing to avoid eyestrain. Let's ease the burden, shall we? --Thunderush ☎ 22:33, June 18, 2013 (UTC)

Ha ha ha. Do I detect a hint of exhaustion? No worries. I've got the Discovery Channel and Torchwood radio dramas to keep me going. --Thunderush ☎ 22:51, June 18, 2013 (UTC)

Understandable. It's just numbers. I wish we could add pictures to liven the dates up, but they'd certainly get in the way. 21 October, huh?

Well, that's to be expected. Sometimes you break an egg when you're trying to organize the contents of a fridge, so to speak. Only this is a repository of all the dates. I'll sharpen my attention so it doesn't (hopefully) happen again. I agree wholeheartedly on researching DW episodes. I'm almost done with Tennant's era and I went back to Pertwee for the classic experience. I'd check Hartnell and Troughton some more... if they weren't potholed to kingdom come by the missing episodes. --Thunderush ☎ 23:03, June 18, 2013 (UTC)

PA vs AFM

The reason you're getting confused by some of our terminology pages is that they tend to be biased towards the new series. The production assistant page is almost certainly using a definition more applicable to BBC WAles than BBC Television Centre.

In DOC: So What Do You Do Exactly?, Graeme Harper helpfully gives equivalencies between 1963 and 2005 terms:

1963 term	2005 term	Notes
Production assistant	1st AD	PA was, like 1st AD today, the right-hand-man of the director. So this is very definitely the highest rank next to producer/director — the highest below the line rank reporting to the director. PAs back in the day also were location scouts (and essentially a location manager too).
Director's assistant	Production assistant	Harper claims that the director's assistant, actually also was responsible for continuity, so it's kinda like they were continuity supervisior and production secretary combined. The position was not often credited because the DA was permanently attached to the production office, but you can see the credit on official paper work. For The Seeds of Doom, for instance, the DA was Briony Brown, who was there for quite a big chunk of the 1970s. The job eventually passed to Tom Baker's current wife — so, yes, two of Tom Baker's wives had a long-running, influential association with DW.
production unit manager	line producer/production manager	The highest ranking below the line individual reporting to the producer. Essentially the equivalent of the PA

Now, Harper doesn't define an AFM in this piece — he does elsewhere, but honestly I've forgotten quite where. But we do see production paperwork here (and all over the classic section of the Doctor Who website). Consistently, the PA is listed above the AFM. And if you stop to think about it for a second, that makes sense. The AFM is someone who is only present on recording days. The PM, as the 1st AD, is there for the whole of pre-production, location filming, and studio recording. In other words, the title means, "I'm the director's assistant for the whole of production." Hope that helps!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:27: Wed 19 Jun 2013

You're welcome!

It most certainly did help to gloss up all those pages! I nabbed a 1,500 edit badge along with the Graham Norton 250 edit award. Bumped me 10 points shy of #19, which wasn't hard to attain. Hey, I know the leaderboard looks like all fluff, but it's an attention-getter. You never know if someone special might show up on TARDIS wiki and strike a conversation. I'm an aspiring comic writer just now beginning to pen the first chapter of my story. Maybe it will help me prove my merits one day. And this show is wicked good inspiration. --Thunderush ☎ 18:40, June 19, 2013 (UTC)

Update on days

Very good progress indeed! On comics, you're not supposed to "know". You're supposed to just calculate. I think you'll find a comprehensive list at a couple of places around the net, though. Altered Vistas and comicbookdb.com. The comicbookdb.com list is probably the simplest to use for this particular task, since it neatly lays out every comic story by cover date.

Oh and if you hadn't cottoned on to it, Empire of Death is a date-based novel, where each of its seven chapters correspond to each one of the days between 14 and 21 February. Therefore what I've put down so far is essentially just place holding text — a massive simplification of things. If you get access to this novel, these pages will need to be given better copy.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:31: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Seriously, the work at comicbookdb.com is absolutely meticulous on that score. I strongly urge you to use that as your basis for everything from The Klepton Parasites all the way to at least the beginning of the BBC Wales era at DWM.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:40: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Not sure what you're talking about. You don't need more than "Countdown" or "TV Action". Brevity is what matters on date pages. Besides, the indicia on Countdown remains Countdown/TV Action (or some very close variation thereof) throughout the entire run. That is, the words "Countdown" "TV" and "Action" always appear in the indicia, regardless of the issue number, or what's going on with the cover. The cover goes through three major stages though: first Countdown then Countdown/TV Action, then TV Action. Use the one appropriate to the story at hand. Don't go all crazy with the exact cover; it honestly doesn't matter to this wiki. (Well, it matters on the page Countdown (magazine), but that's it.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:53: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Yeah, you're going a bit long on some of your lines. Please note this diff. For the most part, just get a year, the name of the actual release, and the company who released it. We can't really start doing issue numbers at this level, because we'd then have an imbalance between the Polystyle stuff — where we don't have individual issue pages — and the other stuff, where we do. Best just to avoid the apparent imbalance by leaving it at "published in TV Comic" or "published in Doctor Who Magazine". also, each line should have only one release. So it's not "the script of The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"; it's "The Power of the Daleks (script)". Remember, our watch word here is simplify. Cut it back to the absolute barebones.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:35: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Oh, and in that vein, let's just say that if the cover of the mag has "TV Action" in it, the strip "was published in TV Action". If it has Countdown alone on the cover, then it's from Countdown.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:37: Sun 23 Jun 2013

18 March (releases) looks good, though I don't really think we need "by Target Books" after every novelisation. The presumption is Target, surely, with those handful that aren't Target getting the specific publisher? If you really strongly feel that having Target Books is actually necessary, go ahead, but my instinct is that it's largely superfluous info. Also, I kinda dig inverting the usual sentence structure on entries. It doesn't always have to be:

• <title> was published in <publication>/by <publisher>

I think we can say things like "Part one of the TV Comic story <whatever> was published". I think if we have a standard for each media, then when we assemble pages with all different media, we'll have ensured sentence structure variety. I mean, if we do all the comic stories one way, and all the TV stories another way, when you put em together on a single page, there's variance in the sentence structure.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:18: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Vetoing "books by genre" cat

I'm shutting down your "books by genre" notion before you go too far with it. It's going to require wayyyyyy too much speculation. Many in-universe books are merely mentioned; it'll take too much T:NO RW creep to then define a genre.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:40: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Nah, Category:Non-fiction books is fine. That's easy to tell. It's when you try to place Great Expectations into, I dunno, "historical drama" or some other genre classification that things get dicey.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:48: Sun 23 Jun 2013

Can you join chat? 04:43, June 24, 2013 (UTC)

EP1 messages

If you're getting an "Emergency Protocol One" error, you're getting an error which is dressed up to look like it's coming from this wiki, but is in fact a Wikia-wide "database error". In other words, there's nothing we can do about it. They do happen from time to time, but they aren't being caused by any local issue. You'd get them (albeit with a different message) whether you were editing here or anywhere else on the Wikia network. They tend to be extremely intermittent and short-lived, though, so I can't promise you that you'd get one here, then be able to go to another wiki and immediately trip the message there.

They do tend to happen in the middle of the night in mainland US time zones, because that's morning in Poland, where Wikia's engineering team is located.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:45: Mon 24 Jun 2013

More day matters

Yes, I would probably put the publisher on novelisations where it's not Target. Obviously, it's a little more vital on Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, and Doctor Who and the Zarbi, where you've got what we might consider truly different editions done by different publishers. I think in the case of these three books, we probably should note the first non-Target edition and then the subsequent first Target edition.

But I definitely don't think that, for the purposes of the day pages, that it's particularly noteworthy to indicate when the first Pinnacle or Virgin reprints are.

As for whether I'm doing ordinal redirects, well, it's not particularly high on my to-do list. Nominally, though, I suppose it's consistent with the original forum ruling that allowed us to switch to cardinal dating. So it probably will be coming. Ordinal dating is not a part of the way I use English so it never occurs to me write "the 21st December" — which probably explains why we don't already have the redirects. If it were me, the redirects would be at "the 21st of December", but that's not the way the community swung.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:58: Mon 24 Jun 2013

July wordmark

Help me remember: did we settle on a Seven wordmark?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  22:49: Tue 25 Jun 2013

More date stuff

Hey :) In some instances, I'm just going to drop a note on date talk pages, as with Talk:23 February. I don't always have the time to read and understand what's going on, but I will try to leave at least a note any time I find anything.

Also, I should tell you that I have given up on trying to make sense of The Time Travellers. That thing is full of specific dates, but I have no Idea what's happening there. I can't tell what's real or what's not real, so I guess I'll have to go back and read it from cover to cover and hope for the best. But I'm not too optimistic about everything making sense based on my own distant memories of the work, and the recent Doctor Who Book Club Podcast on the subject.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:50: Thu 27 Jun 2013

Hmmm, I see your logic, but it doesn't quite work correctly in a cooperative environment. I'd rather the {{DeleteDate}} message stay active (and indeed the page usefully categorised), until we actually have information on the page. A blank page is less helpful than a nearly blank page with a tophat soliciting an editor's help. Talk pages are, by tradition, the place for notes about how to edit the article, not hidden messages on the ns:0 page.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  21:12: Thu 27 Jun 2013

Chat

Sidebar, m'lud.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:38: Tue 02 Jul 2013

Weird, I thought you would like it. I take it from your quick sign off that's not the case?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:18: Tue 02 Jul 2013

Year pages

Year pages are in, and most of the programming surrounding them has been completed. There's just a little kink left to fix on the {{YearNav}} front to make {{YearNav}} appear on the pages with dab terms. Otherwise {{YearNavLateral}} offers only alternatives that are sensible for the particular year (i.e., no (releases) in 1935, but (people) is allowed). Basic deal is that 1897 forward have (people) pages, except for a few scattered pages in the 1890s where there are no recorded births. 1960 forward have production pages, while 1963 forward have release dates. (Forward means "until and including 2013".)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:44: Fri 05 Jul 2013

User pages

Hi! Please re-read Tardis:Vandalism policy. You are not to alter another user's page, no matter the circumstances. There are several things wrong with the recent edit you made to User:Snivystorm's user page.

• You didn't contact an admin instead of doing it yourself. This is a violation of the vandalism policy. Contact an admin instead, and I'll go on record as saying I don't care enough about spoilers for the new series so I will be happy to take care of any spoiler violations.
• Your edit summary clearly states that you know you're not supposed to do it but you're going to do it anyway. As a very prolific editor, new users will take their cue from people like you. Please try not to blatantly violate policies.
• You left your reasoning in an edit summary, but edit summaries have a very short lifetime of being easy to find. It will soon be buried in the page history. Some new users don't even know that the "recent activity" page exists or how to find the reason for an edit. This new user may have no idea what policy he/she violated, and may continue to add the information until someone lets him/her know on their talk page why their user page was changed. When users, especially new ones, violate policy in their edits, I always let them know on their talk pages why their edits were changed.

Thanks for reading this rather long post. Shambala108 ☎ 14:11, July 13, 2013 (UTC)

Year pages

Year pages are unlocked, since I've now done as much as I can do with them via a bot. Feel free to tackle them, liaising with Cult Of Skaro.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:50: Sun 14 Jul 2013

Nah, feel free to go full steam on year pages. The only reason they were locked was to ensure that bot processes wouldn't create/get stopped by edit conflicts. Now that those are largely over, there's no reason to limit editing access.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  12:28: Sun 14 Jul 2013

Girl's Best Friend

Deadlink, I'm afraid. If it was working, it's since been withdrawn.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:00: Tue 16 Jul 2013

Whatever the case: disallowed.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:25: Tue 16 Jul 2013

Chat =

Chat, now. You've been rather naughty, it seems.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:40: Tue 16 Jul 2013

Eight's wordmark

Hey, do you still have the Photoshop (or whatever program you used) files for file:TardisDataCoreEight3.png?

I'm finding that on the page, given that we need it to work on both dark and light backgrounds, file:TardisDataCoreEight4.png isn't quite working, because there's not quite enough of the outline of his hair to make it work.

If there's any way you could take Eight3.png and make the head the same height as the "T" in TARDIS? Not looking for a lot of work; just stretch the McGann outline a few pixels taller so that it's level with the top of the text. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:06: Thu 01 Aug 2013

Thanks much for doing that so quickly.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  06:02: Thu 01 Aug 2013

Re. Release Days

Hi SOTO,

Thank you for your hypercube of 11:32, August 5, 2013.

I apologise for any inconvenience my recent editing of Days of the year articles may have caused.

I can assure you I had no idea I was going against the rules, as I had not read the thread you mentioned, and will understand if you wish to withdraw the When Ten Became Eleven badge I earned for making 50 edits.

As I would definitely like to help the cause, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me "some of the stuff that needs to get done", as you quoted in your hypercube, plus your decision regarding the aforementioned badge.

Once again, I apologise.

I await your reply with great interest.

Freddie R. Aldous ☎ 12:22, August 5, 2013 (UTC)

{{ImageLinkComics}}

Template has been fixed. Thanks for your help. Please do not continue the practice of adding an appending pipe.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  11:40: Sat 10 Aug 2013

Years

What kinda bot runs would you like?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:52: Sat 10 Aug 2013

By my reckoning, all bot runs have been completed as requested. Lemme know if I've missed something.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:36: Tue 13 Aug 2013

Reminder

Hey, I just wanted to remind you to come to an admin to remove spoilers from talk pages, per Tardis:Vandalism policy, instead of doing it yourself. You can always post a request on my talk page. I check the site several times a day, and I check my email even more often, and I will be notified fairly quickly. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 00:35, August 21, 2013 (UTC)

To be more specific, I am talking about user talk pages. Sorry for any confusion. Shambala108 ☎ 00:35, August 21, 2013 (UTC)

2014 annual

I don't know if you saw my reply on the talk page, but that annual has been out since at least last week at WHSmith.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  13:39,22/8/2013 

Stubs

Ah, my apologies. Thanks for letting me know.

SpaceTimeWiggles ☎ 19:11, August 27, 2013 (UTC)SpaceTimeWiggles

Birth Date of Murray Gold

While I understand, after you having linked T:NO SELF REF, I would like to point out that on the 28 February (people) page, his birth is listed, albeit unsourced, so would it be necessary to have a source on the Murray Gold page, or would it be the proper action to remove the listing from the date article? The latter seems slightly unnecessary, but as I am a new editor on this wiki, I figured I best ask someone else. --ToaMeiko ☎ 05:52, August 28, 2013 (UTC)

Donating a monthly logo to the TARDIS Wiki

I have done something bold and contributed a Ninth Doctor logo for this month.

Would it be appropriate for September? Now, I've seen various logos get donated on the fly, and messages distinguishing the new logos on the Twitter feed for TARDIS Wiki, but I don't know if there is a process of approval. It said you designed one, so does this one hold a feather of being used? --Thunderush ☎ 22:21, September 1, 2013 (UTC)

Yes, yes, I was indeed late to the party. No harm in trying, eh? It's been about 2 days without any alterations to the logo, a little longer of a wait than I thought. As for this logo mockup, I can rededicate it to my user page so that it doesn't go to waste, because I wholesomely approve of the design the community picked out! The minimalist look is superbly used by focusing on Nine's jacket lapels. And for the record, the photomanipulation in GIMP to make the background transparent really cost me time, which is why I ran late. Tell you what, I'll whip up a Tenth Doctor logo and present it right before we do the logo swap again. Thanks for pointing me to that thread so I can be prepared for next time. Two more months, two more Doctors. Fingers crossed :D --Thunderush ☎ 23:03, September 1, 2013 (UTC)

Strike that last statement, I rather like this one you made.

However, that thread you sent me to went silent around April, not really deciding on what to fill the December slot, just a "Happy Holidays" variation. This was before The Name of the Doctor introduced the mystery incarnation. I can discuss him just barely, since he's past knowledge, but not fully explored. By December, that "new" Doctor will be less spoiler-sensitive. With some nudging, that one could be used complete the 12 months. I am tempted to mention another option... but I mustn't- off limits because of our stringent spoiler policy. Save that one for January! --Thunderush ☎ 23:29, September 1, 2013 (UTC)

Splendid news!! I will do my best to make a decent render of the Eleventh Doctor, likely his Series 5-7a look and adjusting his bowtie. I also agree that we need a special logo for the anniversary- a Totter's Lane design was brought up. Unfortunately, the user who made it caught a ban for being too persistent with wordmarks. Again, thank you! :) --Thunderush ☎ 00:31, September 2, 2013 (UTC)

Well, It took about 90 minutes for me to make something brilliant. You made a design with the Sonic Screwdriver. I took that idea and made it even better. I traced a picture of it and the Doctor in his tweed suit with my own personal accents.

How does this one look? It took all my concentration to get the lines drawn right. If you want a transparent edit, I'll provide it. I'm extremely proud of how well this idea turned out. --Thunderush ☎ 01:54, September 2, 2013 (UTC)

Sigh... That's OK. At least we're halfway there. Admittedly, that design is making me squint. It was blown up to 800% in Bitmap, which is deceiving. I'll give this project a long rest and let you breathe. Wordmark thread now bookmarked for when a new idea hits- if it hits. There's just not a lot of pixels to work with. --Thunderush ☎ 02:54, September 2, 2013 (UTC)

Regex thingie

Confused by your regex code. Not sure what you want me to do with it. Not in the habit of testing out relatively complex code unless I have a plain English understanding of what you think the code will do. What are you unhappy with in the date display of BBC DVD releases? Explain to me in plain English what you want your code to do.

Note that regex comes in a lot of "stripes" or "flavours", and that what you read online may not actually work with pywikipedia, the bot we use.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  06:48: Tue 03 Sep 2013

Image template proposal

It's not an unfeasible proposal. It's merely unwise. Admin cannot put themselves in the position of endlessly cleaning up people's work. I mean, we're already doing cleanup jobs with T:SPEEDY and any number of things. But I guess I and Mini-mitch feel that learning to upload the images correctly is not so difficult.

An image either fits those guidelines or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you delete it and move on. Yeah, sure, occasionally I'll have mercy and redo it. But most of the time, it's not worth it. If the image is <250px, it's not salvageable at all. If it's a framing problem, it's often tricky to refactor. If it's blurry, there's nothing to salvage.

The only scenario that's quick, I'll grant you, is the conversion of .png to .jpg. But the truth is that I want to delete those. I want to make a point to the uploader that they're not acceptable. I don't want to do his or her cleanup for them. I want them to see that we're not playing around: .pngs will be deleted on sight.

Deletion of images is useful, even though it temporarily means that we've lost an image. The only way to train people to do the work correctly is to spend time talking to them on their talk page, and then, if necessary, show them that you're perfectly prepared to delete their work until they observe our really quite simple rules.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  08:39: Tue 03 Sep 2013

Chat

Go to chat please. --QuestionRules 23:24, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

Can you look again at my forum about the episode template. For one a made a test template Template:EpisodeTest. I need more people on board with this.--QuestionRules 00:57, September 10, 2013 (UTC)

RE: British Spelling

Oh dear me... I'm so sorry. I actually knew that there was a difference in British spelling for the verb and noun, I guess I had forgotten it. Thank you so much for telling me before I became so oblivious of all of the incorrect edits I have been making. Thank you for the links as well, they will aid me greatly. Now, I don't think I should bother changing all my edits because of the bot, do I? -  Speedysnitch   Talk  contribs  01:11, September 29, 2013 (UTC)

Great, I think I will need to look more into depth about how this Wikia works. No need to do it on your own! I'll help you undo my errors, it won't be a problem for me. Then again, I might make another mistake whilst doing that... which is certainly what I don't want to do! -  Speedysnitch   Talk  contribs  14:47, September 29, 2013 (UTC)

Tunnel Terrors!

I really dont mind being bothered :) Someone had created some pages which I've just started to catch up with and one being Tunnel Terrors. I forgot how to request that a page be re-named to correct the mistake - that was top on my pending list - before I got distracted with Companions (Virgin) (which incidently I feel would better be entitled Doctor Who: Companions - and avoid any confusion lol) Feel free to refresh my memory btw The Librarian ☎ 02:55, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Opps! My bad - Didnt realise I had created that page twice - was getting it confused with Teacher's Pet (comic story) that should be Teacher's Pet (comic Story) ...its late! The Librarian ☎ 03:01, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks its definitely Tunnel Terrors!The Librarian ☎ 11:47, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Found your Decky/walkie-talker answer I completely missed that! Sorry about the new page bit - and hopefully I won't find another! btw my wrist doesn't hurt as much as if CzechOut had slapped it! :) The Librarian ☎ 01:18, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Question

SOTO, since I saw you were here, I was wondering if you knew how I would source a DVD? There's a lot of uncredited cast info on the DVDs, and I don't know how you would source that. Would it be like this? (DVD: The War Games)

Oh, and also, open Skype. ;) Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 04:53, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Huge favor

Any chance that I could get from you 8 transparent .pngs? The first three would be colored variations on this image: http://images.rottentomatoescdn.com/images/trademark/rotten.png.

One would be that exact color, the other would be more of a yellow, and the other would be somewhere on the border between orange and purple. Don't take to much time, just a simple color replacement. Looks like you'll have to replace three or four shades in order to redo things.

These first three would need to be on a 75px transparent square.

The remaining 5 would be color variants of this image: http://images.rottentomatoescdn.com/images/trademark/fresh.png

You shouldn't have to mess with the green stalky bit, just the red bulb. That red should be left for one, so we only need four variants: green, yellow, orange and sickly purple.

Make these on a 95px transparent square.

If you can't do it, that's totally cool — just lemme know. I don't have the time right now to craft even comparatively easy achievement graphics like these, and we've got that ugly naked achievement track that desperately needs some illustration.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:29: Thu 03 Oct 2013

OMG, thank you so much for the quick turnaround. That is such awesome work! One tiny thing, though: I need a FreshYellow/95px. Any chance you could bang that one out for me real quick?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:04: Thu 03 Oct 2013

Thanks again for the quick turnaround! With one exception your raw files have now been deleted from the site, as there is no fair use rationale for keeping trademarked images, even if color-altered, on the site. But your work is now enshrined as the artwork for the 2005 Doctor Who TV stories achievements. Congrats on creating your first Achievements track!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:45: Thu 03 Oct 2013

Bot

I know I'm a little late in fixing you up with the bot. Please give me until after the site redesign is completed next week to set you up with that. However, if you've already created the bot account, lemme know what that name is so that I can submit the request for the appropriate bot flag with Wikia Staff.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:45: Thu 03 Oct 2013

Recording days

Hi SOTO, thanks for telling me about the recording dates thing. Sorry about that. Bubblecamera ☎ 21:15, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Chat

Hey, if you're around, could you please drop by chat?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:29: Wed 09 Oct 2013

Sorry about that. Had a nasty network outage that came at just the wrong moment. If you're still around, I'm back in chat. If not, thank you so much for helping today.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  05:40: Thu 10 Oct 2013

Sorry about the delay in coming to chat. I tend not to look up from the window once I get involved in editing .js files, which I was just doing. Unfortunately, my chat window seems to have frozen before you arrived, so I never saw what you typed.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:28: Sat 12 Oct 2013

Am in chat now. You know, we probably should form a Skype group so we can bypass this silly chat altogether.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:43: Sat 12 Oct 2013

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!