User talk:NateBumber

Romana III and Trey Merge
Hi I've noticed you've but a merge tag on Romana III and Trey. It was decided that they were to remain different pages in this thread, please can you read it. Adric♥Nyssa∩Talk? 20:04, February 23, 2018 (UTC)

Faction Paradox
I like things at least somewhat chronological, so having comics all the way at the bottom is quite the turn-off. You wrote a fascinating explanation of the series' development which is wonderful as is and would be diminished by being fragmented. Once Faction gets into the hands of Obverse, the novels and anthologies are equally important, but you can only group the Obverse write-up with one section. Also, some of the tables on the page are rather big, so I think it's better to group them together into a somewhat continous list than integrate them with other stuff. The only change I'd make would be adding an image or two to the history section. CoT    ?  21:55, February 24, 2018 (UTC)


 * Hey, I don’t have time at the moment to start dealing with it in earnest. Also I don’t want it to be misinterpreted as a hostile act. So I would be very happy if you spearheaded the clarification efforts. The latest FP anthology somehow seems to use Victoria Waterfield (Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks (short story)) and even the Thirteenth Doctor (Special:Diff/2477299). The copyright status of this is unclear to me. But I would dearly love to avoid any protracted heated arguments. So if you could figure out what it is before the inclusion debate (or even initiate the debate yourself), it would be great. Amorkuz ☎  06:32, March 22, 2018 (UTC)

Tumblr
Hi, please note that discussions between two users that are relevant to wiki policy should take place on the wiki, for similar reasons as explained at Tardis:Chat policy. Thanks, Shambala108 ☎  12:39, March 22, 2018 (UTC)

DotD novelisation
I don't mean to intrude, but I can't find a copy of The Day of the Doctor book in my local W H Smith or Waterstone's, and I wanted to ask how the regeneration of the War Doctor is handled before I make a long trip to find it in the W H Smith in town. More specifically, I wanted to know if we finally get the know the Ninth Doctor's first words after the regeneration?BananaClownMan ☎  15:47, April 5, 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Guess I'll wait 'til my birthday to get the book if I don't see in a shop soon. True, it is a little disappointing that the Ninth Doctor's first words still allude us, especially since this might just be the only time we can find them out, unless Big Finish hire Pete Walsh or make "Warrior No More" canon, but you're right, at least now the "could have been worse" line can now make sense. "When one door closes, another must open" indeed.BananaClownMan ☎  20:32, April 5, 2018 (UTC)

Re: Carveggio rename
Hi! The reason I changed the speedy rename to a rename has to do with the reasoning User:GusF put on the rename tag: "Unless there is an in-universe source which spells his name 'Carvaggio', the page should use the real world spelling of 'Caravaggio'." We should allow at least some amount of time for someone to verify whether such a spelling exists in prose. Thanks, Shambala108 ☎  23:02, April 6, 2018 (UTC)

First Law of Time
Well, I personally like to have information displayed this way. I believe having just a summary on the Laws of Time good, because if people are interest in it, they can click in the link and "dive" in more information. Anyway, as you were the one adding the information, I'll leave it up to you, really :) OncomingStorm12th ☎  02:29, June 5, 2018 (UTC)

Tumblr template
Hey! I've previously just used the template, which allows you to. I'm absolutely not opposed, of course. Just let me know what you want the output to be, and I'll make the template for you. "Official Tumblr blog"? 18:20, June 8, 2018 (UTC)
 * Eh, I just went ahead and made it: . Let me know if you want changes to the wording, or anything else. 18:33, June 8, 2018 (UTC)

PS: If you want to use it to link to Tumblr accounts for non-individuals (such as BBC Doctor Who), you can use the second variable to define that: 18:33, June 8, 2018 (UTC)

Chapterhouse rename
Hi!

A few months back (I'm a master procrastinator) I posted something in the Discussions section about renaming the page "Chapterhouse" and it was recommended to me that I get in contact with you.

Here's a link to the post I made: https://tardis.wikia.com/d/p/3100000000000164043

Thank you for your time, ARDT19

Ze Martians and zeir tripods
Hi, long time no see. Since you're one of the most 'verse-tile editors, I was hoping you have some good memories of Wild thymes and of the Martians invading in 1890s. I vaguely remember something of the sort popping up and Iris is mentioned as a source at Martian tripod. The date is more definite there, but I suspect that this event has just been referenced in the latest Torchwood story Goodbye Piccadilly. I thought you might be interested. I also hoped you might write something based on the knowledge of both stories, which is more than I can boast of. Amorkuz ☎  21:55, July 5, 2018 (UTC)

Cats and mouse
Renaming categories is a real pain. If you manage to enlist a bot operator, consider yourself lucky. Let me state, for the record, that on the matter of this rename I would have to stay neutral for the reason of almost complete ignorance. You are much more an expert on this. And, at any rate, War in Heaven seems a more specific title. If you'd like a second opinion, maybe User:Revanvolatrelundar is a better fit in this case. Funnily enough though, unlike moving pages which requires an admin intervention, moving categories doesn't. For the simple reason that you can't, and I can't. Moving a category means, in practice, that you go to every member of the category and change the category for it manually. After the new category is populated and the old one is empty, you slap a delete tag on the old one, and one of the admin eventually deletes it. (You can ping me if "eventually" seems like a long time.) Good luck. PS Sorry I was planning to transcribe the relevant part of Goodbye Piccadilly for you and AdricLovesNyssa but BF releases stories now faster than I can listen to them, let alone relisten. Amorkuz ☎  16:32, July 17, 2018 (UTC)

Parentheticals
Hey! So here's a little thing. There's no problem with naming a page with multiple parentheticals. You can have a dozen if you want. The only technical limitation it brings is in doing pipe tricks. Generally speaking, we save time by typing: Castrovalva (TV story) which then magicks away the (TV story). A number of our templates, particularly infoboxes, have built-in pipe tricks, so they, too, are expecting a single parenthetical at the end of the title.

A title with multiple parentheticals will remove everything after the first opening parentheses. So: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story) would become A Bloody. It properly links, as you can see, but it doesn't display correctly. So that means you have to remember to manually do the truncation by typing A Bloody (And Public) Domaine to get A Bloody (And Public) Domaine.

And you have to remember to override auto-naming of the infobox by adding |name = ''A Bloody (And Public) Domaine If you don't, the name atop the infobox won't be quite right. (Closing the italics is optional, in a sense, because styling doesn't pass from one variable to another.)

Also, the "prev" and "next" fields on infoboxes won't like a name like this. But it's easily fixed. We just keep the original version — A Bloody And Public Domaine (short story) — around as a redirect. And you don't have to change anything on the previous or next stories.

I should point out that none of this is a limitation of the MediaWiki software, though. It's just something that's not worth coding for locally at Tardis since it's such a rare thing. 15:28: Mon 23 Jul 2018

Dabooks
I'm still in a place with Internet once a day. I'll think of it and get back to you, say, within a couple of days. (Also I prefer the term dab enthusiast, or simply senior dabber, but thanks for noticing my efforts :) Amorkuz ☎  15:21, August 10, 2018 (UTC)


 * Enjoy is a strong word :). Okay, here is what I think. I ventured to some other wikis recently and realised that, compared to many others, we are dabbing relatively often. This is mostly due to the agreement to dab all stories, which, in turn, was a result of many story titles representing in-universe things and many not representing them. The main reason to dab all stories was to save editors the time for researching when a dab term is warranted. In my perusal of anthology titles, I eventually descended on the following understanding: if the title could be a title of a story, then it might as well be dabbed for the same reason as story titles always are (even though the policy does not require it). On the other hand, anthology titles that are not likely to have an in-universe analogue, especially titles that clearly mark themselves as collections, chronicles, volumes, series, etc.---such anthology titles require no dab. There are several benefits of not dabbing them: one does need a pipe-trick while linking to them, the screen real estate on mobile devices is saved by avoiding the second line of the title. At the same time, searchability is not affected because search suggestions react to the prefix, not suffix of the title.


 * So at first sight, it seems like dabbing these two pages is unnecessary. For instance:


 * Dark Eyes (audio series) is dabbed because of the anthology of the same name, Dark Eyes (audio anthology),
 * The Churchill Years (audio series) is dabbed because the same name with a volume number is used for individual releases, e.g., The Churchill Years: Volume One
 * on the other hand, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor is not dabbed due to the lack of conflicts (hmm, now there is one with Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Complete Year One, but it appeared later and here the primary topic might apply)


 * This is my default position, without knowing your reasons it would be useful to dab them. I'm happy to listen to what you think. Amorkuz ☎  22:23, August 12, 2018 (UTC)