User talk:TARDISfreak
TARDISfreakThanks 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. -- Mini-mitch (Talk) 11:23, 20 July 2012
Categories[[edit source]]
Hi. Please do not add categories like Category:Stubs to pages. You can see all the category-based stubs here; Category:Stubs, just choose an appropriate stub and put it within curly brackets. So for your recent creation of the Kamelion Tales page you'd add {{real world stub}}. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 06:11, July 21, 2012 (UTC)
Warning - Moving articles[[edit source]]
Warning. Please do not move articles unless you are sure of our policies regarding article titles or the names of the items themselves. We do not include titles in article titles see T:HONOUR (part of our Tardis:Manual of Style) for more information. With regard to the U.N.I.T Files see the U.N.I.T Files - Doctor Who Collectors Wiki, this on a related wiki shows the covers for both the UK and Australia. --Tangerineduel / talk 07:08, July 21, 2012 (UTC)
Block[[edit source]]
Look above you, on this very page. What does it say? Spoilers aren't cool. You've been here for around a year, more than long enough to acquaint yourself with T:SPOIL. You should have easily seen several messages directed to all users warning that spoilers will not be tolerated. And yet you uploaded movie posters that spoiled the names of future episodes. To prevent you from spoiling the anniversary special, you're banned until 1 December 2013.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:08: Tue 23 Apr 2013
- Because you behaved according to Help:I'm blocked, your ban will soon be lifted. However, I do need your acceptance of the terms and conditions at community:Message Wall:CzechOut to complete the restoration request. Thanks for being so pleasant during the process so far!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:39: Tue 23 Apr 2013- Well, that's a weird one. This account now blocked globally by Wikia. Block will now be made permanent to echo Wikia's block. Still, for the record, this user did in fact behave perfectly pleasantly in working to undo the local, Tardis block, and was literally a few minutes away from having it lifted.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:59: Tue 23 Apr 2013
- Well, that's a weird one. This account now blocked globally by Wikia. Block will now be made permanent to echo Wikia's block. Still, for the record, this user did in fact behave perfectly pleasantly in working to undo the local, Tardis block, and was literally a few minutes away from having it lifted.
- Because you behaved according to Help:I'm blocked, your ban will soon be lifted. However, I do need your acceptance of the terms and conditions at community:Message Wall:CzechOut to complete the restoration request. Thanks for being so pleasant during the process so far!
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!
