User talk:Alyssa Bowen
Alyssa BowenThanks 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) 12:25, 22 January 2013
Do not upload videos[[edit source]]
Hi :) Thanks for joining our site :) Apparently you missed the mutliple warnings saying "only admin can upload videos". I hate to come down heavy on your first day of editing with us, but I'm obliged to give you this personal warning: do not upload videos to this site. It is a violation of local policy. If you choose to upload more videos to our site, you will be disallowed editing access to our site.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:51: Wed 23 Jan 2013
Pictures[[edit source]]
Hi, again. :) Before uploading images to our site, it's really important that you carefully read T:ICC, T:GTI and T:IUP. I had to delete your recent upload of Luke, because it was obviously a promotional image of Tommy Knight, not an in-universe shot of Luke Smith. We only allow images from within a narrative for our in-universe pages. So you'd have to grab a picture of Luke in The Lost Boy (TV story), for example — not a photo of Tommy Knight on the set of SJA. The big warning sign is when an actor is looking straight into camera. This is almost always the kind of shot we cannot use.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:42: Thu 24 Jan 2013
We do not allow fanfic[[edit source]]
Please read and abide by T:NO FANFIC. We do not allow the addition of information from fan fic on our site. Your edits to Melanie Bush and Nyssa have been summarily reverted. We are very serious about this rule. Further infractions will result in your permanent banning. Please confine your edits to facts established in BBC-licensed works, as outlined in T:VS.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:33: Mon 28 Jan 2013
- You ignored this warning with this diff, that came some 30 minutes after the above warning. You had plenty of time to read this warning, so you must have just decided to ignore it. No choice but to ban you.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:13: Mon 28 Jan 2013
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!
