Talk:FindTheDoctor (series)

Recent promo image
A recent promo image released 16 August shows the cast standing in front of a graffitied brick wall, with a series of numbers (53.38038, -1.45899) including a highlighted number 5. Not sure if it's part of this or not. Perhaps it should be added to the notes section? 66 Seconds ☎  15:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The thing here is that the promo picture is a big spoiler, not that I think anyone doesn’t know it at this point (but rules), and it doesn’t include the hashtag #FindTheDoctor. No one searching for clues has yet been to the location that it leads to, so we can’t really say anything for certain. The biggest pro is that this number is digitally added on the picture itself. The biggest con is that there has yet to be found the aforementioned hashtag. —-Danniesen ☎  17:54, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Update on this… it has been revealed that the numbers on the promo image, while containing nothing on the actual location in real life, if you go to the location on Google Maps and look in the photos section, you’ll see the TARDIS with “FIND ME 14/7” graffiti on it. This clue leads to a post the Doctor Who accounts posted of the Doctor reading a paper strip with a Morse code on it. This Morse code was supposed to lead the the Liverpool Gallery with the painting. So, a couple of steps were skipped by chance. The letters are E and G. —-Danniesen ☎  05:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Presentation of this page
I have a few things to say about the presentation of this page. Firstly, this is an ongoing "series" of sorts, so it absolutely does need a spoiler template. See: Tardis:Where spoilers are allowed, "Series articles must carry at the top of the the article, until that series has been completely released."

Secondly, I think a table, at least the current table, is not a good way of presenting the information. It contains too many redundant columns that would be better expanded upon in writing. A table would also require us to use some arbitrary title for each clue, when often none are available. This sort of thing is best described in paragraph form, but perhaps with a table as a summary.

Finally, not every clue needs its own page. We do not need a page for a photo uploaded to Google Maps or to Instagram. Placing these photos in a gallery at the bottom of this page would be a much more reasonably (and more reader-friendly) way to present this information that is not all over the place under several different pages. Danochy ☎  09:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * As for the dab term series at the top, in relation to the spoilery information you want on here, it was a loose agreement made by a couple of users, admins included, to call it a series as there wasn’t really a clear consensus on whether it was actually needed. It should be noted that it was unspoilery before the change.


 * To expand on that in the second argument you put, a series page, in any of our cases, in itself does not contain heavy information on each chapter. That is reserved for the articles on which the particular part is based on. The series page itself would only contain a minor description of the particular part, with a link leading to that part. Whether that should be constructed as a table is still debatable.


 * As for your argument about not every clue needing a page, I will point you to the pictures RTD himself put on Instagram back in Lockdown days. These were literally just one-frame pictures that were agreed on this wiki to be valid articles. They were even given titles based upon a sentence or similar. Basically, they ARE different entries. —-Danniesen ☎  10:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * The RTD cartoons were very contentious, but, and this is key, the rationale for their having pages was that they were narrative — that they were comic stories in their own right, like newspaper cartoons, albeit very short ones. Scrooge MacDuck ☎  10:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I feel most of the individual entries should receive pages but not all.
 * The website works fine here and as it doesn't have any citeable information for in-universe articles it would receive no benefit from having a page.
 * A message from Yaz is clearly narrative and should therefore receive a page as a valid source.
 * I feel the Google Maps reviews would work well as a (serialised?) short story, receiving a page as a valid source called John Smith (short story) (this name doesn't seem the best but there isn't anything else that I could think of that was better). The image would therefore be an illustration to those reviews.
 * The Morse code Instagram post isn't narrative at all in my opinion but should perhaps receive a page as a non-narrative, invalid feature titled What’s the Doctor reading? (feature). I feel this is heavily debatable however. There is potential for it to maybe be citeable in a BTS section some page but there really isn't much information that could be given on the page.
 * La Boîte Bleue works well as a short story like it already is. I definitely feel it has a narrative, especially when considering the opening paragraph on the website.
 * I feel Unknown object—RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209 also works well as it is currently presented. There is no narrative present in my opinion and it does work well as a non-narrative, invalid feature as it introduces in-universe information.
 * As for future entries, I feel they'll need to be handled as we get to them. There is no point deciding a blanket rule for everything as this is clearly more nuanced.
 * These are just my opinions though so what does everyone else feel? Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎  11:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * As a side note, having separate pages would help with navigation in infoboxes, as well as any relevant navboxes. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎  11:10, 18 August 2021 (UTC)