Tardis:Discussion policy

This is the TARDIS Index File, the Doctor Who Wiki's discussion policy. This policy covers all discussions made on forums, blogs and article talk pages on this wiki.


 * Forums, blogs must be on-topic - This means they must discuss something related to the wiki, whether it be an internal continuity issue, new material that is yet to be broadcast or published, or discussing potential changes to the wiki.
 * Article talk pages must be related to the editing of the article - Discussions on an article's talk page must relate to the editing of the article not the narrative features of the article.


 * No fan fiction - There should be no fan fiction posted on the forums or blogs, a limited amount may be posted on a user's user page, but only in accordance with our user page policy, other fan fiction related material can be posted on the Doctor Who Fanon Wiki or Doctor Who Expanded or at FanFiction.net. Any fan fiction posted in the forums or blogs will be deleted.


 * Keep it civil - Civility is expected to be maintained in all blog posts, comments and forum posts and comments. There must be no personal attacks on forum, blog posts or talk pages. Personal attacks made against users is a blockable offence.


 * Blog and forum posts are not your primary contribution to this wiki - Like your user page blog and forum posts should not be your primary contribution to this wiki. The forums and blog feature aim to build a community around the editing and creation of content on this wiki. They are not content generating themselves. Users who have an excessive number of their edits in the blog or forum namespace may be warned and may, potentially blocked at the administrator's discretion.

Blog posts failing the above rules will be deleted and the user warned and/or blocked at the administrator's discretion. All blog posts must be categorised into Category:Blog posts.

Archiving of Forums
Forums are regularly archived, this is done for two reasons; to preserve discussions for future reference and to prevent out of date information clouding current event discussions (this is of particular relevance to Forum:The Howling's discussions).

All three Forums are archived. Topics are usually archived 2 months after the last major edit. Major edits are defined as signed edits (and exclude maintenance edits). Discussions that are started and have a definite close may be archived sooner than 2 months.

The archives can be accessed from here, the Forum:Index archive or from each of the active Forums also.


 * Forum:Panopticon archives
 * Forum:Reference desk archives
 * Forum:The Howling archives