Talk:The New World (TV story)

Rules for Editing With US Airdates
This page remains locked for editing, presumably because the episode has yet to air in the UK. However, it has already aired in the US. This does present a new situation here, as I believe this marks the first time that an episode in the Doctor Who universe has aired in America before it aired in England. And the US is ahead of the UK on this by a few days, not a few hours.

So, my question on this is, do pages for all episodes have to remain locked until they air in the UK? If so, what's the rationale for that?

76.120.41.10 05:46, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd say that's a very good question. - Byfield 06:32, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, guys: I would've thought the protection would've been initially set to end automatically at 11pm EDT on July 8.  It was instead set to expire on July 29 for some bizarre reason.  So, I just took off all edit protection manually.  Sorry for the few hours' delay.  Policy is that edit protection ends on each episode at 11pm EDT on the Friday that episode ends.  As is clearly laid out in the first paragraph of tardis:spoiler policy, the country of first publication is used to determine our protection settings.  So, with K9 it's Australia (or was it Poland? Or Sweden? I forget now), DW it's (usually) the UK, and Torchwood it's now the US.  06:51:36 Sat 09 Jul 2011