User talk:StuperStar
StuperStarThanks 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 ☎ 05:40, June 26, 2013 (UTC)
Image questions[[edit source]]
Hi! You've actually addressed two different issues, so I will answer them separately.
You asked why I/we erased "all these pictures". Without knowing which ones you mean, I can only point to our policy pages at Tardis:Image use policy and Tardis:Guide to images. We have quite a few specific rules regarding image upload and use, and a picture in violation of any of these policies will be deleted. After you read the policies, you will see that some pictures do "hurt" the wiki, either by violating copyright laws or by causing long page-load times.
As for deleting things from users' pages, you stated, "Wouldn't someone have the complete freedom to put whatever they want on their user page?" Well, yes, that is true, but it doesn't apply on this wiki, because, as stated in both Tardis:User page policy and Tardis:What the Tardis Data Core is not, user pages do not belong to the user. This wiki is not a free web host. User pages are primarily for helping other editors get in touch with you. We do allow some personalization, but user pages are still subject to all the policies that other pages are.
After you've read the image policies, if you still have any questions about specific image deletions, please feel free to ask and I will explain the reasoning.
One other suggestion: when you leave a message on a user's talk page, it's better to start a new thread instead of jumping into the middle of the page. It's harder to find a post that's buried among older posts, and much easier to find new posts at the bottom of a user page.
Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 15:09, July 2, 2013 (UTC)
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!
