User talk:Speedysnitch
SpeedysnitchThanks 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
We generally use British English round these parts, so if you're American, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
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.
Other useful stuff
Aside from those two things, we also have some pages that you should probably read when you get a chance, like:
- the listing of all our help, policy and guideline pages
- our Manual of Style
- our image use policy
- our user page policy
- a list of people whose job it is to help you
If you're brand new to wiki editing — and we all were, once! — you probably want to check out these tutorials at Wikipedia, the world's largest wiki:
Remember that you should always sign your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes like this:Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. CzechOut ☎ 19:23, September 22, 2013 (UTC)
Redlinks[[edit source]]
Hi! Please do not remove red links from pages (unless they are mistakes). Red links are there so users can see what pages need to be created. You can read more about redlinks at Tardis:Redlinks. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 17:20, September 22, 2013 (UTC)
British English[[edit source]]
Okay, I'm just going to stop you before you get too far. First of all, if you see a widespread spelling problem, don't bother fixing it yourself because we have a bot, user:CzechBot, that can take care of it much more quickly and efficiently. In fact we do have a bot run to fix spelling, etc that is run regularly. Just go to CzechOut for bot requests, and I'm sure he'll help you whenever he can find the time.
Second thing is a bit of a grammar lesson. The differences between US and BR English are not always as straight-forward as you think. Now "license" is another one of those with lots of exceptions. Now in the UK, "licence" and "licence", very much like "advice" and "advise", are used in different contexts. You would say "a licence", but "to license". Here are just a few sites that agree with me: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Now let's look specifically at one of your recent edits. In this one, you changed "first licensed crossover" to "first licenced crossover". This is actually incorrect in both British and American English. Both of them use "license" as the verb, right? So in this case, the crossover is licensed (adj) because someone official licensed (verb) it. That means that most (if not all) of your recent edits "fixing" this are wrong, and must be undone.
- Oh, yes, and this also applies to Category:Doctor Who licensed food. That'll stay just where it is for now. And, for the future, when you want to request a category rename, just put the {{rename}} template at the top and explain your reasoning. {{speedy rename}} is the template for fixing simple, unarguable mistakes in article titles, but it must not be used for categories — "renaming" a category is much too complicated a process to ever be called "speedy". Going to Czech is fine, but please also put the template on the page so that the request shows up at category:articles that need renaming.
--SOTO ☎ 00:18, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
Now. Next time, if you're not sure about something, ask at the forums. In this case, probably Board:Spelling debates. If you notice a problem that's wide-spread, there's probably a reason it hasn't already been fixed — in this case, because it wasn't wrong in the first place. --SOTO ☎ 00:18, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
- The same applies to practice/practise. In British English, practice is the noun, and practise is the verb. So this is also wrong.
- And program/programme is another example that's in the grey area. While Programme is used for many things like television programmes, program is the only correct spelling for computer programs. So the "holodeck program" you "fixed" [5] was correct all along. Please note that this one example is one thing that can not be fixed by bot, because both spellings are correct, so this does need to be corrected manually. But in this case, the original was correct.
So, if you're not sure, either look it up or ask in the forums. This site has pages on all three spelling issues I addressed here, so that might be a good place to look first.
--SOTO ☎ 00:32, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry for the long speech. The thing is, the mistakes you made are not actually covered by SpellBot. They're the exceptions, because both "practice" and "practise" are valid words... but are used in different contexts. In fact, all those mistakes are specifically listed at Tardis:Spelling policy/user-fixes.py#Words impossible for a bot. So, uh, congratulations on that! :P
- Now I don't currently have a bot, but CzechBot has rollback and I think can undo your edits between two specific points in time automatically. I don't know if Czech is available again yet. But you only 85 edits total, so I won't bother him. I can undo the conflicting edits manually, on my own. :)
--SOTO ☎ 01:24, September 29, 2013 (UTC)- All that being said, the great majority of your edits with us have been positive, and are much appreciated. There are just a few things you didn't know that you do now. We were all new once. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me or, better yet, one of our admin. Welcome to the team. :)
--SOTO ☎ 01:58, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
- All that being said, the great majority of your edits with us have been positive, and are much appreciated. There are just a few things you didn't know that you do now. We were all new once. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me or, better yet, one of our admin. Welcome to the team. :)
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!
