User talk:SidBadger
SidBadgerThanks 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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Edit warring[[edit source]]
Hi! Please do not change the information on Nollarr (The Girl Who Died). If it's wrong, then bring it up for discussion on the talk page and explain your reasoning. That's how we do it on this wiki. If you continue to change this page without discussion, you will be violating T:NO WARS#Edit wars. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 18:28, October 19, 2015 (UTC)
Nollarr[[edit source]]
Ok, so here's the deal. We have quite a lot of rules on this wiki, and one of them involves making sure that information placed on the wiki is properly sourced. We don't use IMDB as a source, because anyone can edit it and it is therefore not very reliable.
However, that doesn't mean we can't fix the issue. I have not seen the episode in question, but I can imagine that someone created the page for Nollarr and mixed him up with Hasten. If there is some way of specifying which character is which, preferably using story dialogue and such, then an admin can go about changing the page name. I'll make a post on the talk page for Nollarr (The Girl Who Died), asking for any type of clarification that we can use. Shambala108 ☎ 00:45, October 20, 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. There is also an incorrect attribution under the topic Sonic Sunglasses. Nollarr didn't break the sunglasses, Hasten did. Under the heading Sonic Sunglasses you still have a picture of me, playing Hasten, incorrectly titled Nollarr. If the person providing the original listing had seen the episode he would know that the red headed viking with the horned hemlet (in the jpeg) is the one who broke the sunglasses. He can then check with the BBC web-site to see that is was a character called Hasten.
Thanks again
SidBadger ☎ 09:30, October 20, 2015 (UTC)
Hi Shambala,
Thank you for all your help, it all seems to be fine and accurate now.
SidBadger ☎ 11:07, October 20, 2015 (UTC)
Gratitude[[edit source]]
Hey! Just wanted to give you some well deserved thanks over your help with the Nollarr/Hasten error. It's always an unfortunate reality that silly mistakes can go unnoticed even when every contributor is keeping a watchful eye on the wiki. Your information aided me in fixing a simple but widespread factual error, and that sort of help often goes unnoticed.
I'm not an admin, I'm not even a long-standing editor (only started this malarkey four or so months ago). But I'd still like to give you my best wishes and most heartfelt thanks. It's always great to have a new contributor, and it's especially exciting (well, for me at least) to have someone who has been part of the creative process on the actual show involved.
Yours sincerely, RogerAckroydLives ☎ 10:12, October 20, 2015 (UTC)
Hi Roger,
Thank you for all your help. It looks fine now. Just thought it was better to sort out now, before it becomes 'set in stone' on the www.
