User talk:TenCents
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:28: Wed 21 Dec 2011
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!
Time Lord Victorious[[edit source]]
Heads up, T:OOU says that we should write that article in past tense, even though it's not out yet. Yes, it's confusing, yes people make of us on twitter for stuff like this (eg: someone "was" so and so even if they're still alive). But that's why it's written like that. Najawin ☎ 20:54, July 24, 2020 (UTC)
- I believe the admins call it "future proofing", not "lazy". :>
- I'm not saying I agree. But the article is supposed to be written the way it is. You are right that T:OOU doesn't explicitly comment on "work in progress" articles made for upcoming works. If you want to discuss that, I think either ask an admin or make a thread on the forums? I'm not an admin, I just know that the current wording is most definitely intentional, and the page was created by an admin with that wording in the first place. Najawin ☎ 21:13, July 24, 2020 (UTC)
References[[edit source]]
Hi please note that your definition of what "References" should be is not the same as what this wiki defines it to be. Therefore, your removals of entries from various story pages have been reverted. Shambala108 ☎ 23:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- To go into slightly more details, think of the "References" section as being like a "Worldbuilding" section. It serves to link to all in-universe pages that relate to the story, but aren't important enough to go in the synopsis. For example, the Doctor mentioning a planet offhand in dialogue in a non-plot-relevant way is not necessarily a 'continuity reference' to any preexisting lore, but it's a "reference" to an element of the wider Whoniverse that has its own page. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 00:07, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
