User:NateBumber

Hi! I'm Nate, a fellow who wears many hats: moderator of the Doctor Who and Gallifrey communities on Reddit; admin of the Faction Paradox and Obverse wikis; and occasional Faction Paradox author! Nothing is canon, but the Eighth Doctor novels are canoner than NuWho, and I will challenge you to Rock Paper Scissors if you disagree.

Disclaimer: I do my best to stick to, and I absolutely never intend to attack anyone through what I say on this site. If any reader takes unintended offense at anything I say, I sincerely apologize; feel free to contact me about it and I'll retract the perceived insult at the earliest opportunity.

Changes I'd currently like on the wiki
Big thanks to all the admins who have helped with things on this list!

Renames

 * Dalek invasion of Mars to 2150s Dalek invasion of Mars


 * First Morbius to Morbius I, First Tecteun to Tecteun I, etc, per Talk:First Morbius
 * Grant (The Return of Doctor Mysterio) to Grant Gordon (see the talk page), and Lucy Fletcher to Lucy Lombard (see the talk page)
 * Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) to Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two (since the situation with Interference is analogous to how The Then and the Now was published across 11DY2 1 and 11DY2 2. See this and other proposals on the talk page.)
 * Patience (The Tides of Time) to Patience (Cold Fusion)
 * All the Short Trips and Decalog anthologies: for instance, Short Trips: Zodiac to Zodiac (anthology) (see Talk:Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury)

Mergers

 * Corvus into Chessman
 * Josef (Closing the Account) into Joseph Stalin
 * K'anpo Rimpoche 2 (Planet of the Spiders) into Cho-Je (see Talk:Ansillon)
 * Keitel into Wilhelm Keitel
 * Legg into Harold Legg
 * Morok guard 2 into Morok technician

Policy
Except where otherwise noted, it's my understanding that many of these suggestions would require forum threads before implementation; I am intimately familiar with T:BOUND, and I cannot and will not act on those until then. That said, I believe the forums will likely never return, and we would do well to wind up a stand-in before the to-do list grows any longer.
 * T:SPOIL is designed to protect the hypothetical editor who doesn't want to learn about the Fourteenth Doctor from Special:RecentChanges, but given the extreme reach of these announcements and the effort the BBC puts into promoting them, it's clear that such an editor isn't experiencing the franchise the way it's meant to be experienced. When the top trending search on this wiki is [REDACTED], an actor for whom we don't even have a page (!), we're clearly failing the actual users of this wiki. It's long overdue that we allow -marked pages for future cast and crew based on official announcements.
 * The way we present metafictional information on this wiki is unnecessarily confusing to the not we, who sensibly expect pages like Doctor Who Series 9 to be about … you know … Doctor Who Series 9. We need a better and more explicit policy for disambiguation in this kind of scenario; see Talk:The Woman Who Lived and Talk:Dave Stone. As just one example out of many, Erasing Sherlock should be Erasing Sherlock (N-Space) or Erasing Sherlock (The Doctor's universe).
 * Per CzechOut's decision that novelisations are valid sources,
 * EITHER Joe (Scream of the Shalka) should be renamed Joe Latham and Chief Inspector (The Lost Boy) should be renamed Robert Lines (see Sandbox3 for a longer list);
 * OR Cass Fermazzi should be renamed Cass (The Night of the Doctor), Crane should be renamed Nurse (The Curse of Fenric), and Edward Wright should be renamed Polly Wright's father.
 * Additionally, novelisations and other adaptations should be included in lists of appearances, just as they already are on Patience, Iranda, etc.
 * For a wiki run by fans for fans, we care an awful lot about licensing! If 100% of the audience understands that a character is obviously intended to be (for instance) the Doctor, we should just cover them as the Doctor, regardless of the exact legalities. The Homeworld precedent already hints at this, but a broader policy would also allow us to recognise the Cosmic Hobo as the Doctor, the Mistress (The Choice) as Romana II, and the Imperator as Morbius I. (See Sandbox3 for a longer list; see also my thoughts on Time Lord incarnation names.)
 * We should use sortable tables so stories in bibliographies and lists of appearances can be sorted both chronologically and by medium: see Sabbath Dei - list of appearances for an example. Most of this could be automated with SemanticWiki along the lines of Bongolium500's excellent citation template proposal.
 * It would be helpful for disambiguation and less confusing for everyone if unproduced stories were dabbed as such: for instance, Creatures of Habit (comic story) should be moved to Creatures of Habit (unproduced comic story).
 * The implications of Shambala108's ruling that character pages should only have 2-3 sentences per story have yet to be realised on the wiki.
 * The Master must be split into incarnation pages at earliest opportunity. To avoid the bickering over naming that has sidetracked previous attempts, we must disambiguate by first appearance as a suboptimal-yet-neutral temporary : The Master (Terror of the Autons), The Master (Dominion), Missy, The Master (Utopia), War Master, etc. Better names can then be decided on the individual talk pages.
 * Large portions of Third Doctor should be redirected to Exile on Earth, where events can be discussed in more detail.
 * It's a mistake that User:Timewalkerauthor's summaries have been removed from our wiki. In particular, I don't understand the comment that we shouldn't want people to "come here to get information they can get somewhere else", since this entire wiki began as a fork of Wikipedia's Doctor Who pages! Especially since no one likes writing plot summaries, we should be more accepting of "self-plagiarism", and maybe we should even consider linking to external summaries like the Time Lord Archives and Doctor Who Reference Guide in our "Plot" sections.
 * Characters and concepts with mentions or minor appearances in other universes don't need separate pages: it serves no one to separate our coverage of Moira (Shadow World) from Moira (The Pilot), Jevon (Ascension) from Jevon (Emancipation), or David Whitaker (The Thief of Sherwood) from David Whitaker (The Daleks).
 * Peter Capaldi's difficult experience finding relevant information on our wiki has me rethinking how we write . I haven't settled on anything articulable yet, but my changes to The Beatles and Musée d'Orsay may indicate the trajectory of my thinking.
 * Compared with best practices, subpages are direly underutilized on this wiki. For instance, we should have Sabbath Dei/List of appearances instead of Sabbath Dei - list of appearances and Faction Paradox (series)/Covers rather than Faction Paradox covers.