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Wales crew
Hello and welcome to our community! I assume you're the IP editor who requested some changes made to [[tl|Wales crew}} a few weeks back. I wanted to hold off making changes to it, because I rather suspect I'm going to have to make a ton of changes due to the differing styles necessary for Miracle Day.  I did want to assure you that it's on my radar to change, but I wanted to do a lot of changes at once, rather than nickle and diming it.  I also wanted to take some time to review the credits on UK transmission as opposed to those on US transmission of MIracle Day.

So my plan, at present, is this. I'm going to wait until the end of July. by that time, I'll have copies of a few episodes of Torchwood from both transmissions. I'll then be able to have a fairly representative slice of series 4 credits and be able to figure out a decent way to code the thing. I may well have to make a completely different template, anyway, because New World credits were pretty radically different than anything else so far.

Until a further announcement, please don't use wales crew on Miracle Day episodes. You may see me making an attempt to use it, but this is just for testing, and doesn't signal that it's okay to proceed generally with the template.

Thanks — and it's great to have another user dedicated to getting the credits right on our story pages! 00:44:41 Thu 14 Jul 2011
 * Cool. I don't want this to stop your work on other seasons of other series, though.  It's so awesome to have someone else who wants to do this work! Please just keep doing what you're doing.  When you run across a credit that doesn't yet exist as a variable, pick a variable name, assign the person to that new variable, and write the variable at template talk:Wales crew.  I promise I'll get to it.  And if you have any suggestions about how to make the thing work better, let me hear those too.   Thanks :)   00:58:01 Thu 14 Jul 2011


 * Yep, not only are your new variables in, I've begun the process of Miracle Day-ing the template. You'll find that the latest episode, Dead of Night, has the MD version of Wales crew already installed.  You may certainly feel free to populate the form with the credits after 2300 EST today.  I haven't quite worked out all the formatting, but that doesn't matter.  I've filled out the details on The New World, but haven't quite gotten to Rendition just yet.  Important thing at this stage is simply to have the data in the form; I'll be tweaking things this weekend to get it all displaying properly.  The blank form is in a special Miracle Day section over at Wales crew.  Please note that I have detected very slight differences between the Starz and BBC One versions' credits on ep 1, thought I'm not sure that'll necessarily be the case in other episodes.  Still, it'd be helpful to me if, when you're filling in things, you noted which version your info comes from, so that I know that I need to verify it against the other'' version.


 * Thanks, as always, for your help with this stuff.


 * Oh, you may have noticed that I took some of the rigid column structure away from the top box. This should help SJA and TW pages, which don't necessarily have all 12 main credits, to have "neater" headline credits.  I'm still going to be playing around with the basic formatting, because honestly it all's looking a bit tired.  But, anyway, for the moment, I hope you'll find it's improved a bit for non-DW episodes.   22:51:41 Fri 22 Jul 2011


 * Yeah, you're prolly gonna find glitches from time to time over the next few days. It's mindnumbingly painstaking work, and sometimes I "drop a stitch", as it were.  Oh, and minor thing, but could you please put a link to this talk page in your signature?  It helps with communication — and it's da law. :)  23:13:03 Fri 22 Jul 2011
 * Okay, I think the template has now been fixed to handle Miracle Day. I left you Rendition (TV story) to try the new template on.  Just remember to cut and paste the T:MD form from Wales crew, and you should find that it'll take you at most five minutes to enter the variables.  There is one remaining problem that I see, and it's that the "costume" section appears as empty.  This is because headings are turned off or on on the basis of either the page name or by testing to see whether a variable that always appears in that section is present.  The costume department it weird, because there is no single credit which has always appeared in all three programmes, so there's nothing to test for.  I think ultimately I'll just have to test for the ten episode names, but my mind's a li'l tired of looking at this very detailed coding.


 * Point is, it's ready for use with MD, and it should be working better with other series. Let me know if you notice problems with it.   00:24:46 Tue 26 Jul 2011

Forum:Story pages should have reception sections
The above-named forum thread got additional formatting after you posted your thoughts. I wasn't quite clear which of the two sections best represented your views. Please return to the thread to confirm that your thoughs are under the appropriate heading. Thanks. :) 15:27:42 Fri 15 Jul 2011

Tooth and Claw
So there's a couple hundred links to Tooth and Claw. Are we certain these should all be moved to Tooth and Claw (TV story)? 13:55:30 Sat 23 Jul 2011
 * You misunderstand my question. Obviously our disambiguation policy calls for the move.  I've been kinda waiting to see how long it would take someone to notice.  It's kinda amused me that no one has noticed, and yet we've had fierce battles of The End of Time, a much later story.  (The answer, by the way, is: five years, three months).  The question I had for you is whether anyone involved here — you, Mini-mitch or Skittles — has actually checked the list of links to Tooth and Claw to verify that they all are meant to be links to the TV episode.  The bot can take care of the re-linking in a matter of minutes, but it can't contextualise anything.  It has no idea whether a particular link is meant to be for the comic strip or the TV story.  So what's needed here is for someone to just check to make sure that anything currently linking to Tooth and Claw is meant to be pointing towards the TV story.  Once that's verified, the actual changeover is a snap.   14:15:29 Sat 23 Jul 2011
 * (Oh, and thanks for making an attempt to comply with tardis:signature policy, but you're not quite there yet. There must be a link both to user:Tybort and user talk:Tybort in your sig.)
 * Hey, I notice you're hand-editing link moves to Tooth and Claw (TV story). You know you don't have to do that, right?  All I'm looking for is that you or Skittles or Mini-Mitch or someone verifies that each one of the links to Tooth and Claw is meant to be to the TV story.  Once that happens, it's a matter of minutes before everything gets changed over.  It's kind of a waste of your time to physically make the changes to Tooth and Claw (TV story) yourself.   17:40:36 Sat 23 Jul 2011
 * Okay. Well, I don't have time today to look at each and every link to make sure it's liking to the TV Story.  So I'm going off Skittles the hog's word that it's okay to proceed with the bot.  The bot is therefore running.  Pleas do not hand-edit any Tooth and Claw links for the rest of the day, just to be on the safe side.   19:32:37 Sat 23 Jul 2011

Changeover complete. There were like 6 highly random serials which claimed a link to Tooth and Claw, but when I went to the page and actually did a search for the word "tooth" in edit mode, I came up with nothing. So I have no idea what the link is. Maybe it's a template, but damned if I know what the link is between The Mysterious Planet, The Invasion of Time and Tooth and Claw. The page [[Tooth and Claw has now been deleted, as we need 3 pages for a disambig, and because keeping it around will only encourage more improper linkage.  In a day or so, when the MediaWiki software clears its cache and "catches up", the two Tooth and Claws, and only those two, will present themselves on autosuggest, and people will start to "get" how to link to these stories.  23:43:50 Sat 23 Jul 2011

Doctor image
Not sure how you missed it. After spin-off media was proven to be as much a part of the image as any other image, the discussion moved onto layout.

An image with all the Master on was created and introduced, but subsequently removed per the discussion as the layout was under scrutiny. This does take up about half the argument so I'm really not sure why you're confused.

Anyway, until a layout for both images is decided upon, the field should remain blank.-- 14:34, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Best practices for categories being moved
Hi :) If you notice that pages are being moved from one category to another, please don't flag it with delete.  This prevents the bot from automatically deleting the old category.  Thanks :)  20:12:56 Sun 14 Aug 2011

17:03:06 Mon 22 Aug 2011

Incarnations of River
Please don't create categories for River's incarnation as there is or is going to be a discussion as to whether we have incarnation pages for her or not. Thanks. --Revan\Talk 14:43, August 28, 2011 (UTC)

The Met
Thanks for sorting out the Metropolitan Police Service chaps into the category. I completely forgot about unnamed characters, so at least someone's on the ball.-- 19:17, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Wales crew
Phew. I think I'm done with the current "to do" list on variable names at template talk:Wales crew. The only one I haven't put in is the simple "designer" credit, cause I need to do some research on that to figure out what kind of designer it's most likely to be.

I haven't yet added these new variables into template:wales crew/doc. I may do that today; I may not. It's incredibly tedious work and I'm feeling like a little less strenuous editing.

The biggest current issue with the template is that the UK crew stuff on Miracle Day isn't working as expected. So you may experience the absence of that section from the few pages that have it. Otherwise, do take a look around and notify me of any errors you find.

As always, thanks so much for helping with this project. 20:33:09 Thu 01 Sep 2011

Cyber-ship vs Cyber Ship
Thanks for attempting to sort out the Cyber Ship. As you cleanup tag says, some clarity is needed over the differences between the two, but without a clear indication of who the Cybermen in The Pandoica Opens and A Good Man Goes to War are, we're pretty much stumped. The fact that article is a tip doesn't help, it seems to be in need of Contingency Plan A. Thanks again-- 12:37, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Racist vandalism at Chloe Webber
Oh yeah, I'm the right guy for that kinda thing. Anytime you see obvious racist remarks send me or any active admin the bat signal. You can gimme a jingle if there's simple foul language, at your leisure — but racism I definitely want to know about immediately. So thanks for the heads up! The IP is blocked forever, but that doesn't mean the user won't just sprout a new IP and return. <span style="">00:47:19 Wed 07 Sep 2011

Terserus out of the box
Done. <span style="">02:11:50 Thu 08 Sep 2011

Torchwood cats
I have left a message on Redranger241's page explaining the necessity of edit summaries, and the presence of an active discussion about ths substantive issues surrounding those particular categories' names. However, I wouldn't get too worked up abut these Torchwood categories at the present time. My guess is that they won't remain as they are, anyway. If we ultimately do decide to move the history of Torchwood on to the one page — so that it's all just Torchwood — then any allies/enemies categories are going to be folded into category:Torchwood enemies or cateogory:Torchwood allies, anyway. Technically, there's no real distinction. It's not like enemies of Torchwood 3 aren't enemies of the Torchwood Institute. I mean, if you offend one part of a chartered organisation, you offend the organisation entire. Likewise, if you're a friend of Torchwood Three, you're a friend of Torchwood, period. We would have to have a category like "21st centry Torchwood Three allies' before we could get a distinction between Torchwood Three's interests and the Torchwood Institute's. It's Jack's reaction against Torchwood's stance at Canary Wharf that starts to make the distinction between T3 and Torchwood as a whole.  So it's not even 21st century Torchwood Three, nor is it even  Torchwood Three under Jack, because we know he takes over Torchwood Three on Jan 1 2000.  The split doesn't happen until the summer of 2007, at Canary Wharf.  The Doctor, for example, is an official enemy of Torchwood Three for many decades while Jack is working there, as we learn in Fragments.

So what I'm saying is simple. At the end of the day, there are category:Torchwood enemies and category:Torchwood allies — and that's it. Any other distinction we make is kinda "wobbly".

The only specifically Torchwood Three cat that is logically arguable is Torchwood Three personnel, because you can say that Yvonne is a member of Torchwood but not Torchwood Three. Personally, though, I think it's silly for our organisational structure to be based on a throwaway line that many people won't even remember at this point. It was a big deal in series 1, but how long has it been since we've even heard the term "Torchwood Three"? A long damn time, I think. Long enough that the average user of the site won't be thinking that's how the info should be categorised. But, like I said, I can see that the personnel category is arguable. <span style="">19:39: Mon 19 Sep 2011

Nintendo
I dont think the pae nintendo is relevent.
 * Per your request, a message was left on user talk:CharmeRuler, with a view towards explaining the distinction between "real world" and "from the real world", as practised on this wiki. The addition of real world was reverted by me, with clear edit summary given.  In chat today, however, he still seemed intrigued by this particular article.


 * Because your read of the situation is unassailably correct, I am deputising you as an administrator with respect to the protection of Nintendo. Should you find that he is continuing to put real world on it, or if you find that he is trying to move the page to a name which would logically displace it from its in-universe status, you may revert however many times is necessary to keep Nintendo an in-universe article with the name "Nintendo".


 * You may not be accused of edit warring for any actions deemed necessary to the pursuit of the above goal.


 * Thanks for your concern for the integrity of "from the real world" pages.


 * <span style="">20:08: Thu 22 Sep 2011

MM/ Want to talk? 22:25, October 1, 2011 (UTC)

News anchors
I've reverted you at News anchor (The Wedding of River Song), and here's why. Common titles should always be dab-ed, because we simply can't assert that "there's not another news anchor (or secretary, or nurse, or waiter, or bartender or whatever)" out there. And indeed, there are at least two other credited news anchors out there, in the shape of the KKBE News Anchors from the TVM. This means there should be a page at news anchor which describes what the job is, and gives a bit of dab help to people find the right one. It's probably a good idea to never assume that any person credited by their job is the only one doing that job in the DWU, or the only one that will ever do that job. <span style="">02:11: Tue 04 Oct 2011

2009
I found the quote, "You find it all so difficult. GCSEs and Judoon. Your parents and Sarah Jane Smith." Is that the only reference? 'Cause it wouldn't rule out that she already took a GCSE in the summer. The wikipedia page for "General Certificate of Secondary Education" says they're taken by students aged 14-16. -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 21:44, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

On the other hand, Sarah Jane says that Luke is 15 in "The Gift", and going by the Wikipedia article "Education in England", he would have to turn 16 before starting Lower Sixth. Correct? -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 23:14, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

Aha! Clyde takes GCSE Biology in "The Gift". But, although specific results are maddeningly elusive, my Google search does seem to say that there are GCSE's in autumn as well as summer. And it seems strange that there could be enough time for "The Mad Woman in the Attic", "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith" (including two weeks and a few days before the actual wedding), "The Eternity Trap", "Mona Lisa's Revenge" and "The Gift" after June 23 (when Samuel Lloyd turned 15) and before mid-July (when summer term ends, according to Academic_term). Your thoughts would be appreciated. -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 00:14, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

And there are no regular American exams in the summer (for Maria to be taking). American schools offer summer courses only for remedial purposes or extra subjects of interest. Though that could be down to ignorance on the part of the writer. -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 02:55, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it occurs to me that it was Sarah Jane who said Sam Lloyd was 15 in "Mad Woman", and that was before Mr. Smith said his birthdate, so she was approximating and (based on the time that would have to elapse between this episode and the mid-July end of term over the course of Series 3) it probably wasn't June 23 yet. It's still odd that Sarah Jane says "Clyde's got exams coming up". Unless it's a subject-based thing (like art) or Clyde is somehow in a younger year than Luke (which would also make Series 5 autumn instead of summer), in defiance of the normal laws of time. -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 14:10, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

Ah, odd no longer. I had only been able to find a transcript, but now I've reviewed the scene in question. It makes sense for Sarah Jane to only mention Clyde, because Luke wasn't onboard and Rani had stepped out of the room for the moment. -- Noneofyourbusiness talk to me 15:06, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

City of the Daleks and bot theory
Hey, you likely wouldn't know anything about the details of bot operation, so understand that I'm not angry at all. I'd much rather have slightly incorrect attempts at disambiguation than no-one caring at all.

So please don't detect the slightest hint of disappointment when I say: please just alert me to a disambiguation that needs to be done. Please don't even rename the article, when there already exists another title of the same name. It makes it considerably harder to use the bot. Also, never hand-edit any links to a new name. It's a waste of your time. The bot can do these things in one swift run, so long as you touch nothing and just ask for help. Also, don't create a disambig page for just two titles. I know you will still find examples of this elsewhere on the wiki, but that habit came, I guess, from a time when autosuggestion wasn't a major feature of Wikia architecture. Nowadays, the minimum required is three, because it's sufficient to put a dab note on top of each article and be done with it. In fact, it's really not even necessary to put a dab note when both terms are dab-ed, because the search and autosuggest features will show you (when the cache catches up) that there is a thing called City of the Dalks video game) and City of the Daleks (comic story).

And that brings us to a matter of dab theory. Disambiguation of real world items should be done using the same dab terms. This is a relatively new concept so even I will have been "guilty" of creating City of the Daleks (comic strip). The dab term is merely a standard name for the medium. So (The Adventure Games) and (comic strip) are wrong; (video game) and (comic story) are correct. Readers (and bots!) must be able to expect that disambiguation happens in a regular, predictable way, or they'll get lost. Imagine if we sometimes dab-ed by (television), (TV), (TV story) and (TV Story). It'd be chaos. Because people tend to care more about TV stories, the standard dab of (TV story) has stuck there, without incident, for years. But we've been slower to standardise non-TV stories. So both your and my confusion is understandable. But that period of confusion is ending.

The bot process will be finished within a matter of minutes. If you are currently hand-editing any links over to COTD (The Adventure Games), please stop now, as this will cause unnecessary edit conflicts, and thereby delay the cleanup process. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

As to another of our projects, I have not forgotten about my duties on Wales crew. I did just want to hit the end of SJA before I made my next round of adjustments. So please keep noting what's gone wrong, as you have in the past. It'll all get revamped by the end of the month, at the latest. <span style="">19:30: Thu 13 Oct 2011

Wish You Were Here
Oh, you've just reminded me! There was a kind of unresolved disambig case study about this particular situation, because it's quite unusual. Forum:Disambiguation case study: Wish You Were Here predates your involvement on the wiki, I think, so if you wanna swing by there and give some thoughts, that'd be good. <span style="">23:21: Thu 13 Oct 2011

More bot theory
If you tell me "disambiguate Borrowed Time to Borrowed Time (comic story)", then I'm going to assume that all current links to Borrowed Time are for the comic story. It is therefore preferred that you manually move any links to Borrowed Time that should be for Borrowed Time (novel). However, if you absolutely can't do that, I will accept a list of which links should go where. That will at least serve as a guide to help me properly disambiguate.

In other words, yes, please do move the links meant for Borrowed Time (novel).

As for Judgement Day, what a mess. The only thing we can do about it now is to check both WhatLinksHere lists carefully to make sure that the lists are wholly linking to the proper page. Then, and only then, can we do a switch to (PREFIX audio story). Let me know if you can take care of this checking, or if I need to do it. This one is the higher priority of the two disambigs you've brought to me today, as the names will obviously create the most confusion. <span style="">15:54: Sat 15 Oct 2011

MM/ Want to talk? 17:42, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Shug, Magda
Actually, you're lucky in these cases.

There's a third Shug that should be on the list Monektoni Shug, so Shug should certainly be a dab page. (Shug (species) should be moved to Shug (Walking to Babylon), but I'll take care of that).

Likewise, there's a third Magda out there from the 7th Doctor Key2Time crossover Companion Chronicle. I can't remember if she's ever given a last name, but she's the wife of a character named Zinc. So let's provisionally call her Magda (The Prisoner's Dilemma).

So, in both cases you scrape by with just enough for a dab page. Well done! <span style="">20:29: Fri 11 Nov 2011
 * To answer your latest query, if there were just two, you'd do exactly what you said. Put :You may be looking for the other character of the same name. or language to that effect. You'd generally want to put a tiny two or three word bit of language in there to distinguish the other page.  So something like, "You may be looking for the director of the same name," or "You may be looking for the Third Doctor's companion of the same name", or whatever.


 * But, again, in these two cases, we need a disambig page, so you just have to add the third character to the pages you've already created. <span style="">20:34: Fri 11 Nov 2011

Constantine
Tricky one, this. These are the things I know: So that's more than enough to call for a disambig page.
 * Constantine should definitely be a disambig page. There's
 * Emperor Constantine, who's perhaps more prominent in The Council of Nicaea than Shadowmind.
 * Dr Constantine (The Empty Child) (which I've just moved)
 * Susannah Constantine
 * Constantine Ethelred Gurney.
 * Constantine (The Parliament of Rats)
 * King Constantine (The Shadows of Avalon)

So what should we call an historical figure like Emperor Constantine?

Honestly, I don't have a great answer for you. I don't think the normal disambig rules apply, because it's not really like a character that starts in one story and continues through several others. The appearances in Council and Shadowmind aren't terribly related. In truth we probably should hammer out some kind of policy on real life royalty, because we're not terribly consistent on that. The only real analogue is Victoria (Queen), who's another un-numbered royal that's been in several unrelated stories. And I guess that's how I'd handle it for the time being until a policy can be hammered out. Changing over the links later, if a community discussion reveals a different nomenclature, is easy. As a placeholder Constantine (Emperor) works well enough. <span style="">23:49: Fri 11 Nov 2011

Arc categorisation
I don't know what you're talking about, so I don't really have an opinion about it. I'm not really inclined to sift through his talk page to figure it all out. I notice you haven't left a message on his talk page. If it concerns you, you might consider talking to him directly about it. <span style="">23:55: Tue 15 Nov 2011

Prev/next field
Please note that the previous/next fields are relative to the series line. Really, the two fields should be next to each other so that this is clear (and in the upcoming redesign of all infoboxes, they are). They should allow for navigation between annuals in the same way that we have navigation between the last episode of one series and the first ep of the next.

That said, it could and should be made clearer, I feel, to avoid the sort of confusion you've just experienced. With Dalek annuals, I've recently made it quite explicit. See, for example, The Brain Tappers and The Dalek Trap. It'd probably be a good idea to add that language to the DW annual stories as well. <span style="">22:06: Sat 19 Nov 2011


 * Whoa. I've just noticed that you appear to have been editing a pattern which is destroying the navigational premise of the annual series.  "Previous" and "next" fields are for the previous and next story in the annual, regardless of their format.  I don't really fancy going line by line through your contribution history to undo what you've done.  Since you know best how you've edited today, it'd be really helpful if you could go back and undo all the changes that you've made to infobox navigation.  Thanks.   <span style="">22:31: Sat 19 Nov 2011


 * Yeah, I haven't quite finished the logical splitting of the Doctor Who annual page. But there is a plan in place. Certainly DWY is separate from DWAN.  That's already been agreed by forum discussion, as has the fact that DWS is a distinct entity.  The only real wrinkle is what to do about the fact that the first modern annual is by a different publisher, and of a different tone, to the ones that BBC Books started in 2007.  So basically I think it might go something like this:
 * Doctor Who annuals (World Distributors)
 * Doctor Who Yearbooks
 * Doctor Who annuals (BBC Wales) glues the 2006-12 annuals together as a series. Disambiging to (BBC Wales) de-emphasises the 2006 aberration.


 * Doctor Who Storybooks
 * Brilliant Books — though there's not really much in the way of narrative material in the BBs


 * Brief Encounter is indeed a series unto itself, and the list currently at Brief Encounter encapsulates the entirety of that series, as confirmed by visual inspection of each and every story.  <span style="">05:04: Sun 20 Nov 2011

A New Life
And now, for your original question. A New Life is a unique case. Not only are they both short stories, both are in annuals, both have the same Doctor, and the same (primary) companion. The closest thing to this in the history of DW fiction is, I think, The Metal Eaters/The Metal-Eaters, two Third Doctor TVC comics. Difference there is that we're saved from dab by a single little hyphen.

In a sense, this case is so unusual we're free to come up with our own rules. I think I actually like the dab where it is, because it gives the only dab term of relevance: the year. If there were a story in another medium, I'd say you'd have to change these to ( short story), but that's as much dab as it'll ever need. Maybe when I get around to dab-ing every story title, that's what I'll do, but for the moment, the year alone is a reasonable dab term. <span style="">22:47: Sat 19 Nov 2011

Various and sundry

 * Conundrum done.
 * Yes, The Radio Waves is the end of the line for World Distributors annuals.
 * Yes, Junkyard Demon II is the end of the line for DWY.
 * Yes, that was weird navigation at The Rival Robots. I just reverted your revision to what was there before; wasn't really expecting that the previous revision was also factually wrong.
 * It is simplest to consider the modern DW annuals as beginning with 2006. Don't link the first story in 2006 with any previous series.  It's the start of the line.  Link the last story in 2006 with the first story in the 2007 annual. (Another defensible position would be to link  the 2006 DWAN to 2007 DWS, but I don't think most readers would actually understand that.  The more "reader friendly" thinkg to do is just to link everything published in Britain' with the name "Doctor Who Annual 20zz".)
 * Either you're overthinking DWY or I'm not understanding your problem. The BE stories still are a part of the prev/next order, just like TV21 Dalek reprints are a part of the prev/next order of Dalek annuals.  For prev/next "Brief Encounter" status means nothing.  Prev/Next simply means, "What are the stories that surround this one?"  I know that I eliminated a lot of mislabelling of "BE stories that weren't BE stories" in the past, but I'm not getting how it affects navigation. Navigation is just putting stories in page order.  Please provide examples of how false BE status affects this. (Am I right to suspect you're finding this difficult because you don't actually have access to the Yearbooks, and so can't consult their TOCs?  If so, lemme know and I'll give you simple story orders direct from the actual books.)  <span style="">06:26: Mon 21 Nov 2011

Series
Looking at the Yearbook mess, I see that you have got the wrong end of the stick as to what the "series" variable means. You've tripled the number of things put into this variable.

Every single series variable should have one and only one link in it. I think it might be the fact that you've tried to put additional links into the variable that has confused you as to what comes before and after. If you've got Seventh Doctor comic stories, First Doctor comic stories and Doctor Who Yearbooks at A Religious Experience, it's no wonder that it's not clear what comes before and after. The series is Doctor Who Yearbooks, period.

Of course, I understand that you're not the first to do this sort of thing, and that you might well have been copying from elsewhere. But it's important not to confuse the role of the category with that of the series variable. Yes, A Religious Experience is a 1st and 7th Doctor comic story, but that's a category. There's no such thing as a "Seventh Doctor comic story series". He's just a character in the broader DWM, DWY and IHP series. Without a firm grasp of what the series is, you, or anyone else, can't possibly do proper series navigation. <span style="">17:52: Mon 21 Nov 2011
 * Nope, I know. There was clear confusion in that article before you even touched it. And I have to take some responsibility for not coming on quickly enough with the infobox redesign. There are just so many design fires to put out! The thing is, the series should be right down at the bottom, in between the previous and next story.  That way it would be completely unambigiuous what was meant by "previous" and "next".


 * And the thing is there are some stories which in fact — despite what I've said above — are exceptions and are legitimately part of two series. The Brief Encounters are a perfect example. The ones in the 93 annual are both a part of the BE series and the DWY series.  This can only be clearly reflected so long as we have a clear navigational box at the bottom of the infobox, which is indeed a part of the next design phase.  In gneral, though, there aren't that many stories which are legitimately a part of two different series in the same publication.  <span style="">18:14: Mon 21 Nov 2011

More questions
As you see things that you have questions about, like IDW one-shots, please make a note of them on my user page. I may or may not have time to answer each one individually. However, alerting me to the apparent inconsistency will place them on my to do list, and they will be dealt with accordingly. Please do not attempt to mess with the series line yourself, as this may make it harder for the bot to do an easy correction.

To answer your question, though, the series would be an invented one, based upon marketing lnguage on IDW's website. I think they call it "Doctor Who one-shots and miniseries", but I'd have to doublecheck. IDW has definitely marketed them differently than the main title, though. <span style="">18:27: Mon 21 Nov 2011
 * I think I'm confusing you by mentioning future coding developments. As far as you are concerned at the moment:
 * The "series" variable should contain the name of the series in which the story first appeared. (The DWY Brief Encounters are highly exceptional in that they were actually published in two series at once.  They were both originally Brief Encounters and originally in DWY.  Should you encounter other such cases, go with "series as published" over "series as labelled".  So in this case,  .)
 * The "previous/next" fields should contain the stories that surround it in the series of first publication
 * Additional series navigation will be necessary in the future, in some limited cases — so, yes, some stories will have multiple navigation paths — but you shouldn't worry about that yet.


 * The important thing now is clean, consistent navigation on ONE series, and for that series to be the series of first publication.


 * As you encounter stories where series is unclear, note them on my talk page, and they'll eventually be addressed.  <span style="">00:56: Tue 22 Nov 2011

BBC Books
The relationship between BBC Children's Books and Penguin is essentially one of publisher and distributor. The language you've encountered is literally ripped from the books themselves. BBC Children's Books has editorial control, Penguin physically publishes and distributes them. Stories from them would therefore be attributed to BBC Children's Books and not Penguin. As far as I'm aware, the BBC doesn't own any actual presses (anymore?), so every book bearing a BBC logo is actually physically published by someone else.

I'm growing a little concerned, however, that you seem to making a lot of edits to the structural elements of pages without consulting the actual source text. You've said before you don't actually have the annuals, so please consider the fact that you might be introducing false information, or info based on others' info. Even if you can find a scan of the table of contents online, that's better than using text from a fan site.

If you have this many questions in just a 36 hour period, it's possible that you don't actually have great enough access to the source material to edit this particular part of the wiki usefully. Don't read that as me telling you to stop editing or asking questions. It's just something to think about. <span style="">23:28: Tue 22 Nov 2011


 * Cool. That's all I'm saying.  Just think about the value of consulting source material directly.  As you've already discovered, a lot of the navigation on the wiki is screwed up already because people have been using, for instance, the Doctor Who Reference Guide, rather than cracking open a book and simply reading things.


 * Apart from the infoboxes, almost all timeline information is totally screwed because sometime in the past someone decided that the DWRG was authoritative — when quite clearly it's not. So if you actually click from one timeline link to another, it usually doesn't take more than 10 clicks to get completely derailed.


 * And I wouldn't worry too much about not knowing the BBC/Penguin relationship. I've had the 60s Dalek annuals for decades, and I still don't quite get who was actually in editorial control of those.   <span style="">00:26: Wed 23 Nov 2011

Individual Rutan
If you think it better without, that's fine. However, when I typed "Rutan" into the field, up popped a half dozen categories, including "Individual Rutan" Boblipton talk to me 00:56, November 26, 2011 (UTC)

Promo shots
Sorry for the delay in the reply - been kind of distracted. Promo shots are not allowed in any articles, it should only be screenshots. There is a small expection and that is with characters who do not appear in any visual media, i.e. books and audio, but are depicted on the front covers of the audio/book they appear in - in this case, the cropped image can be use. That as close to a promo shot as you can get. MM/ Want to talk? 15:28, December 4, 2011 (UTC)

Disambig roundup

 * The following things have been sorted:
 * The Gallifrey Chronicles, Placebo Effect, The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens), Project Infinity (audio story) [though I have no clue why you moved that title around so much], The Flood (comic story) and Fragments (TV story)


 * The following things are more questionable, and have not been done:
 * The Flood (The Waters of Mars). This is not "needlessly disambiguated" as you presume.  There's a valid question of naming here.  See Talk:The Flood (The Waters of Mars).  I'm not at all prepared to give the name The Flood to the antagonist of The Waters of Mars.  As far as I can see, it's not an in-universe term at all.  So if you've started doing manual work in that direction, I must ask you to undo it, until the naming question at the talk page is definitively settled.
 * I don't really understand what you're talking about with Bad Blood and Sins of the Fathers. Is there work to be done there or not?  And why would you have attempted any manual relinkage, given the ease with which the bot can do it?  You'll have to advise me further if there's work to be done with these two titles and why.

As for your other query, the few instances of a Hartnell episode also being the name of a story are storted by appending (episode), as in An Unearthly Child (episode) and The Web Planet (episode). <span style="">01:14: Fri 09 Dec 2011

in youth?
Yes, it is grmmatically correct, but if it makes you uncofortable, expand it. Boblipton talk to me 00:53, December 12, 2011 (UTC)

I suppose it could theoretically mean in the doctor's youth, but that doesn't make any contextual sense. Boblipton talk to me 00:57, December 12, 2011 (UTC) <span style="">07:23: Wed 21 Dec 2011

New Earth and other stuff

 * Please see Forum:Renaming New Earth.
 * Hartnell eps - basically changed over but I think I have to redo The Traitors cause I had a power failure mid-run. Not sure.
 * Iris Wildthyme - best to include User:Revanvolatrelundar on this discussion, as he knows a lot about stuff on the fringe of the DWU. How bout raising it in forum:reference desk and Please see-ing him and whoever else has recently edited IW stuff? There was a recent IW question in the forums; may want to look that up, too.
 * It's now fallen angel not Fallen Angel, with all links moved. The title case version still exists but goes elsewhere. Dab notes should make it all clear without need for a dab page, though one is very technically justified at present.
 * I honestly haven't forgotten Wales crew, so please keep using template talk:wales crew, if you're the one that does the Christmas special crew and you find missing variables.

<span style="">21:59: Fri 23 Dec 2011

What? No geronimo?
I understand your reasons for being annoyed at the page for "Geronimo" and expect you to be annoyed at "What"  and "Allons-y". However, I think that the contributor has an interesting point. What do you think about of a page on "The Doctor's catchphrases"?Boblipton talk to me 22:54, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

Utopia
I think I was ahead of you this time. Your request was handled, pretty much as you wished. However, I've retained Utopia (planet) – even though I've moved all the links — because it points to Utopia, which is now a dab page. It seems reasonable to leave it in place, since Utopia now dabs between two planets of the same name. <span style="">21:13: Fri 30 Dec 2011

Stuff
What's your opinion about category:Actors who worked in the Sherlock Holmes franchise? There is no Sherlock Holmes franchise. The beauty of Sherlock is that he's public domain. So anyone, at any time, can make a Sherlock adaptation. You got an idea for a better name for the category? Actors who have appeared in a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, maybe?

Also, what sort of problem could you have with a page on Allons-y! or Geronimo, as implied by Bob, above? Gordon Bennett! They're fair game for articles! <span style="">01:09: Sat 31 Dec 2011


 * Hey! Hey! I have problems with every aspect of every frame being subject to analysis, especially something so marginal as a catchphrase, which is less a matter of characterization than a sort of marketing device. Are we to have a page for "Matt Smith's follicles" because his hair varies so much in The Time of Angels,  goes long with bits of white in The Wedding of River Song and is accompanied by a beard in two episodes?  I think not.  On the other hand, in my other life, I have been an English major and a part-time professional editor and am fascinated by the details of my trade. Asking about a page called "The Doctor's Catchphrases"  is an indulgence on my part. Do not judge my motivations by my actions.  If you want to know my motivations, ask.  You may be more confused after I explain, but them's the risks you take. In the meantime, Tybort, my apologies for taking up your space. Sorry for forgetting to sign earlier. Boblipton talk to me 01:38, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * Moving back to Sherlock, I don't think it's possible for there to be a franchise anymore, now that the property is in the public domain. I mean, there's such a thing as an actor being on the Jeremy Brett version, and the Basil Rathbone, and the Tom Baker, and the Benedict Cumberbatch — but there's no overarching "franchise", because it doesn't come from a single source anymore.  I mean, we could debate whether it might be useful to further subdivide this category into the various "runs".  But I dunno.  I really haven't given it that much thought.  It just caught my eye in passing that it was an awkwardly-worded category.   <span style="">04:18: Sat 31 Dec 2011

"Franchise" is the wrong word. I tried an online thesaurus for "franchise" and "series" but couldn't find the right one. Boblipton talk to me 04:53, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

Moves: Francine, Angela Price
No problem with Francine (The Maltese Penguin). All sorted. But the Angela Price thing is trickier. We have no canonical or even out-of-universe spelling for Price. For all we know, she could be spelling it Jonathan-style: Pryce. She's only credited as Mrs. Moore. I really had no idea that the page had been moved to Angela Price in the first place, as it originated as Mrs Moore.

If we're going to spell it Price, we'll need a forum discussion, because there's absolutely no canonical or end-credits indication of that. My feeling is that it, strictly, should be Moore (Rise of the Cybermen), thus obviating the need for dab at Angela Price (Lost in Time). <span style="">23:56: Tue 03 Jan 2012

latest changes to amy pond
I see you've made some placement changes to the amy pond page. I'm sure you know that this is fine-point editing and a matter of emphasis. As it was it slugged the reader with the sense of betrayal. Now it does not. Unsurprisingly, I prefer the way it was shaped before -- otherwise I would have changed it -- but you think there's something superior this way. Could you explain why you think it's better? Boblipton talk to me 03:50, January 4, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying. I agree that your prposed rewrite does make sense in terms of a straightforward recitation of events and that would speed up the reading. However, in order to have it make sense, the section about the Doctor promising to returning in five minutes would have to be removed, changing the narrative impact and should be removed. Since I se thtat up, I am understandably fond of it and so feel my opinion would be compromised. I hterefore leave the decision up to you:: leave the structure as it currently exists and  I'll remove the now irrelevant sentences -- which will make it read even faster -- or restore it. It's a tough decision and I'm passing the buck to you. I've you want to retain the new structure but can't figure out where to chop, let me know and I'll do it. Boblipton talk to me 21:34, January 4, 2012 (UTC)

<span style="">16:00: Mon 09 Jan 2012

Bane
No problem with that move, but please remember not to move the page before I get to it. It helps out my work flow pattern a lot if I'm the one who does the actual page moves. <span style="">18:00: Wed 11 Jan 2012

About my photo.
I apologize for the cruddy image I uploaded, I have a crappy camera, and an old television that is not camera friendly.

I actually thought that was pretty good for what I had with me. But if it's not up to standards then fine.

It was the best out of seven photos. Sadly...

But thank you for telling me why you removed it :)

Moogleknight24 talk to me 19:45, January 12, 2012 (UTC)Moogleknight24

My talk page
Please read the message at the top of my talk page. Unless you are using it on a post that you yourself signed, please do not use unsigned. I know you had good intentions, but it gets in the way of easily determining whether young editors are beginning to learn the importance of a signature. AngelBill is now blocked because of his unwillingness to sign posts, and it'd be better just o see a completely unsigned post than one on which he might have later added unsigned, himself. In other words, I'd rather not have to do a history search to see who left the late sig. <span style="">19:39: Fri 13 Jan 2012

Father Gregory
Father Gregory should go to Gregory (Tsar Wars). Gregory still goes to Greg (but see the next paragraph). Common names, especially first ones, should always be "future-proofed" by disambiguation. The fact that there is not now another Gregory doesn't mean much. We're hardly a complete encyclopedia. Besides, I'm wondering a little bit about the quality of your search. Without even pressing "page down", I can see an in-universe Mark Gregory, for a start. And don't forget that he's credited as just "Gregory" in The Invasion roll-up. So people might be searching just for "Gregory". Going a bit lower, I can see that The Banquo Legacy makes Pope Gregory IX canon, so that's three in-universe Gregorys without even trying hard. Remember that searching should be done through Special:Search, not just the search bar that appears at the top right of most pages. Special:Search searches through the entire text, not just the titles.

Because there are so many Gregs, there might be a point to splitting Gregory into its own disambig page, just to highlight the Gregorys over the Gregs. But Gregory should definitely not go this Father Gregory person. <span style="">19:39: Fri 13 Jan 2012

TitleSort
Oh, no, that's a very good question! There's certainly no restriction on using TitleSort on in-universe pages. In fact, it can be quite useful, given the ridiculous tendency of DWU characters to name themselves with titles.

In many cases, the effect of using TitleSort is not that much different from NameSort.

For instance, both templates will sort The Master in exactly the same way. The sortkey for both templates will begin with "Master".

However, {[tl|TitleSort}} (hereafter TS) is superior to NameSort (hereafter NS) when a character with a prepending article is also disambiguated.


 * If you TS The Master (Bruce), the "The" gets lopped off and the sortkey becomes "Master". Which is what we want (in most cases).
 * If you NS The Master (Bruce), it gets sorted under "(Bruce), The Master". NS goes for the last word of the page title, then places a comma, then uses the first 10 letters of the title.  This isn't what we want at all.

Just so you don't screw it up an accidentally use the wrong template, it's probably a good idea to use TS any time you have any article name that begins with a, an or the. <span style="">20:29: Fri 13 Jan 2012
 * You've totally lost me. How are the Master's pages "very complex"?  They're easy.  Slap a TS on them and be done with it.  Nothing hard there at all.  We can only take any effort up to the limit of the underlying software, and we don't currently have a way to alphabetise but by a single term.  Thus, sure, The Master (The Fallen) will be alpha'ed under "Master (The F", but that's the best we can do. It's not that big an inconvenience, surely?  I mean, I suppose we could consider a change to dab policy which made it so that dab terms omitted prepending articles.  I don't know how that one would fly, though.  Do the benefits of alphabetisation outweigh the simplicity of "use the whole name of the story"?   I dunno.  I guess that might be worth a discussion.  Might cause some slight confusion with stories like "The Daleks" and "The Invasion".


 * As for sort keys defined by individual category, nope, that's not against the rules and is often necessary. Thing is, though, it can cause a bit of a nightmare if it's not been done consistently.  For instance, in that category:Slitheen you asked about in the forum, I had to strip all the DEFAULTSORTS and category sort keys out to make NS work smoothly.  In most instances, happily, the fact that someone has set manual sortkeys for a particular category doesn't cause a problem, because they're usually sensible enough to sort it exactly how NAMESORT would.  If you encounter a particularly thorny category, though, you might want to turn it over to me.


 * I think in general the thing you have to remember is that DEFAULTSORT and manual sort keys predate the existence of these two templates. There was also a time where it was super-easy to do manual sortkeys. You didn't even have to edit the page to change the way it was sorted. (That might still be the case in Monobook.  I forget.)  Thus, you're  going to find an awful lot of this sort of thing all around the wiki.  Mostly, it's a lot of extra work that doesn't have any net effect on anything.


 * (But then, I've also turned error messages off. If I hadn't, you'd see a lot of these pages with big, ugly, red error messages, because you can only actually have one instance of DEFAULTSORT on a page.)  <span style="">21:17: Fri 13 Jan 2012

--Tangerineduel / talk 14:22, January 16, 2012 (UTC)

Pipe tricks inappropriate on dab pages
As a general rule, pipe tricking is a beautiful thing that saves tons of time. Nine times out of ten, if I've got something like Reunion (ST short story), I'm gonna wanna lop off that dab term without giving it a second thought.

However, the very point of a disambiguation page is to give readers and editors a guide to the true page. So we don't want to mask the dab term on dab pages. Take a look at any wikipedia dab page and you'll see dab terms proudly exposed. And this is an instance where we absolutely follow Wikipedia's lead.

That's because the primary goal of a dab page — since wiki editing began — was to get editors to make links to the specific instance of that name. Although it's nice that readers can type in Andrew and find this whole big list of Andrews, the main thing a dab page does is to show editors that they can't just make a link to Andrew and be done with it. So we should do anything we can do to make it easier for editors to see how they're supposed to link to things. <span style="">15:46: Sat 21 Jan 2012

Torchwood software
I was wondering if you could help me by offering any advice for the torchwood software page? --

<span style="">23:51: Fri 27 Jan 2012

Toy Story
It's no problem. The only reason that the story is included on the wikia is because it came from an official source, therefore we cover that version and not the charity version. Hope that clears some things up. --Revan\Talk 09:48, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

Cite Web
Thanks for that, I was going to get back to it, probably. I checked the template page, it was a bot that removed some stuff, I've undone it and it all seems to be working now. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:10, February 2, 2012 (UTC)

Unsuitable imagery
Yep, delete is the way to go. Just make sure you specifically cite the bit of policy you think the pic is violating in the deletion rationale. <span style="">16:15: Thu 09 Feb 2012

Image categories
Yeah, it's a massive project, but I just couldn't stand the lack of organisation anymore. Plus, I feel like we're losing a ton of great images simply because they've been temporarily removed from a page, making them temporarily orphaned, making some feel that they are not "useful". Hopefully by creating a genuine, searchable library of images, we'll be able to make images work better for us.

At this stage in the game, I'm just laying down the framework, really. Here's what I'm doing initially.
 * Using the bot to check the pages of the characters and species, then dumping those photos directly into the appropriate character or species folder. So, I'm going to Dalek and saying to the bot, put all these images into category:Dalek images/
 * Using the bot to check the pages which begin with the character/species names and then putting them into the appropriate category. So, I'll look at any image that begins with "File:Dalek" and dump it in, too.

These two, simple bot runs will give us a starting point for the categories. But this approach tends to miss out on most images that are on story pages. This part requires hand editing (or, at least, very slow semi-automatic bot editing), and it's where you can definitely help out. I've done all the images on the Fourth Doctor televised stories so far, and I'll be doing the Davison television stories today. I've randomly done a few other stories so as to let me start other categories.

Although there's no harm in putting the same category twice on a page — it's extremely unlikely you'd screw up the bot by manually editing around my edits — it would obviously be a waste of time. If you want to pick a Doctor and meticulously go through each televised story in the era, categorising each picture on the page, that'd be helpful. For the moment, let's just say I'll take care of Docs 3, 4 and 5. If you wanna tell me which Docs you'll do, we might be able to coordinate our efforts better. You might also check user talk:Tangerineduel as he seems keen to help. If we have three people working on the TV bit, it'll all be done within a day, tops. Just remember when you're doing them to add categories for every (main) guest character, recurring character or species in the pic.

Future (and I don't think far future) plans for this include categorisation by story. But that won't really require manual help, I don't think. By and large, the hard part about that is generating the master list of all episodes and putting it into a form that the bot will understand. Generating this list will finally let me bring standards to the naming of story articles, too. But the list, obviously, will be HUGE, running well into the thousands of entries, even if we're talking just visual stories (comics/TV). <span style="">18:27: Sat 11 Feb 2012
 * Well, we can't be editing in different ways. Not yet at least.  If you edit according to license, but we're editing according to story, then we're going to partially duplicate work  Our initial priority is images that are actually displaying on pages.  These images are far more likely than any others to be clicked.  This will introduce editors most quickly to the notion that we are rolling out new organisational schemes for our images.


 * As for the context, it's an out of universe category, so it is kinda "whatever". But clearly, the priority must be on getting all the in-universe pictures into these categories. Certainly I've added a few action figures to these cats, and the odd book cover is admitted by the bot, but the primary focus for now is just those pictures on story pages that appear in the plot section and infobox.


 * The key to this is just to be methodical, and for us all to be editing in the same manner. One round for any files beginning with the name of the character, one round for all the images on the character page.  One round for all the images currently on episode pages.


 * Editing by broad license category is and must be the last step. In the first place, that's pretty easy for the bot.  In the second place, the cat run(s) will largely pick up on images that aren't currently placed anywhere.  If it's the last step, I can do some "fancy" work with the bot to make it a more automated run which will quickly pick up on the images that haven't been categorised a particular way.  But if you're doing it by that method, and we're doing it by another, I won't have that luxury.


 * So, which Doctors' television stories are you going to do? <span style="">18:58: Sat 11 Feb 2012
 * Teselecta is broadly an object. We might later do some more organisation and put it into something like category:Vechicle images, but moving subcats around is easy and can be done later.  <span style="">19:35: Sat 11 Feb 2012

Silurian/Sea Devil images
Let's start out with them being in the same category, called category:Silurian and Sea Devil images, just to make the nomenclature match the others about those species. <span style="">20:29: Sat 11 Feb 2012

John Hart
While I have moved John Hart to John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang), I'm gonna leave Captain John Hart as a redirect. Don't mind people taking a bit of a shortcut given the rather ungainly "proper" title. Going to soon be moving Captain Jack Harkness to be a redirect to the person, too. <span style="">18:52: Sun 12 Feb 2012

Gangers, clones, autons and other duplicates
Remember that image categories are out of universe, so we shouldn't get too awfully precious with them. Basically if the image looks like the character, then it goes in the character's image pile — even if it's, narratively, a duplicate. It can then also be put into the category of the "duplicating species or technology". So, if you've got the clone Martha Jones, that could logically go in Martha Jones, Sontaran and Clone image categories. If you've got the Auton Mickey, that can go in Mickey Smith and Auton/Nestene categories.

Point is, we're not looking for the same kind of rigorous exactitude that we might be with in-universe categories. The audience for these categories is very much the average person in the street. Basically, if you want to "split hairs" over whether you're looking at a picture of Sarah Jane, or Adnrovax-as-Sarah Jane, put it in both categories, not just the more obscure (and technically correct) one.

So, with Gangers, it's not just what you see in the Matthew Graham eps, necessarily. If they're narratively a Ganger, put 'em in the Ganger category. But also put them in the character image category (provided they're a major enough character to have a character image category of their own). So Eleventh Doctor (ganger) images go in both Eleventh Doctor images and Ganger images. <span style="">20:35: Sun 12 Feb 2012
 * Yah, I think it might help to remember that we're effectively building a library of images, with the object being "findability". So the distinctions between clones, gangers, androids and the "real deals" can certainly be noted with the appropriate category, but they should also be in character image categories for the benefit of those editors whose minds don't think in those precise terms. <span style="">21:49: Sun 12 Feb 2012

Captain Jack Harkness
Yeah, this one is an admitted exception to dab. In a very strict sense he should be "Jack Harkness (The Empty Child)". But c'mon he's a headline character. So he gets the undisambiguated term. In changing over to Captain Jack Harkness (TV story), I discovered that most links to Captain Jack Harkness were contextually meant for Jack Harkness, the character. People just assume that link should work. So why not give this one violation of T:HONOR and T:NAMING? I have a feeling that even if we did the absolutely correct thing in this case, moving Captain Jack Harkness (disambiguation) to Captain Jack Harkness, we'd just end up with an unacceptably high number of links to the disambiguation page, rather than Jack Harkness. Cause that was what was happening already — tons of links to the TV story in lieu of the character. Bowing to the inevitable on such a major character seems reasonable enough, especially since it's just a redirect and the proper page title is breaking our rules in only one tiny aspect. <span style="">21:49: Sun 12 Feb 2012

Slitheen images
Sorry that you've wasted your time, but I thought you said youw ere doing Eleventh Doctor and Torchwod, so I didn't expect conflicts over Slitheen. It might save us both time in the future if we both remember to check the current state of the meta categories before creating a new subcategory. (Remember that it takes about 24 hours for a newly-created category to show up in autosuggest.)

I'm afraid in this instance I'm going to overrule you. I know that, in theory, there are non-Slitheen Raxacoricos. But, as far as I'm aware, we've never actually been shown one. The Blathereens in The Gift obviously don't count, because the narrative point of the story is that they're actually Slitheen.

The reason for my "clunky" category name is that it future-protects us. Maybe there will come a day with non-Slitheen Raxacoricos are finally shown. In the meantime, the longish name has the advantage — in a way that it didn't when you created your categories, but does now — of working in autosuggest with either the word "Slitheen" or "Rax". Thus it's easy to find no matter what your understanding of the species is.

Since there's no practical reason for the categorical split, I've just deleted them. Please remember, though, that it will now take at least an additional 24 hours for these categories to clear the autosuggest system. So you've just prolonged the time it should have taken for the original category to clearly display as the only valid category in the autosuggest system. <span style="">02:17: Mon 13 Feb 2012
 * Oh yeah, just remembered a question I had for you. Why are you dealing with Slitheen right now?  I thought you were doing Eleventh Doctor/Torchwood.  Hav eyou finished all that?  If so, what are you actually doing right now.  Btw, I've also finished the Sixth Doctor's run, and am nearing completion on the Third Doctor's.  <span style="">02:20: Mon 13 Feb 2012

I can't remember why, possibly to stop the "upload new version" vandalism that was going around at the time. I've unlocked it. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:34, February 13, 2012 (UTC)

Again, stick with the plan
Please do not go to editing by species. Again, the plan must be orderly category adds by televised story first. Please either go to SJA, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor or K9 stories. Thanks. <span style="">15:58: Mon 13 Feb 2012
 * For the moment, the priority is images on televised story pages. As for locked images, don't worry about them; I'll take care of them in one fell swoop.  <span style="">16:35: Mon 13 Feb 2012

Troughton
Okay, I went there since you said Tennant. I've gotten through The Faceless Ones. You start with The Evil of the Daleks please. I'll hop back to Hartnell. And just so we're clear: you're doing McCoy next, cause I hate the man. <span style="">18:26: Mon 13 Feb 2012

Images by story categories
Please be aware that images by televised story and images by comic story are now completely filled out with subcategories for each and every story of that type. So if you have an image from say, Thinktwice, you'll want to make sure that you put it in Category:Thinktwice comic story images. Or if you have something from The Mind of Evil, please ensure it gets into Category:The Mind of Evil TV story images.

These images by story categories are, of course, in addition to any other categories which may be appropriate, such as ones from Images by character, Images by object, or images by species.

Images by story will continue to grow over the coming weeks to include other media, but comics and TV were deemed the highest priority, since the vast majority of images will come from these two visual media.

Also, if you haven't noticed it for now, TV story pages now all have a little tab at the top left labelled "images". Clicking it takes you to the relevant category, so that you can quickly view our repository of images from that particular story All stories will eventually have this sort of link. Longer term, individual charactes might also have such a link. <span style="">02:36: Mon 20 Feb 2012

Infobox images
Oh, it's all still very much in progress. In fact, the bot is in category:organisations right now. But if you see something that looks weird, please do ask, because this is one hell of a big project, with lots of stages.

BTW, what did you mean by your cryptic statement in the forum about The Dæmons? <span style="">17:35: Thu 01 Mar 2012

Mentions
Just did a random diff check on Jamie McCrimmon and noticed that you actively removed the "dead" mentions field. I've been reluctant to go that far, simply because my decision to make it inactive was an "emergency" move in reaction to a technical change on Wikia's part. Technically, the question of what to do about mentions is still open at Forum:"Mentions" field being deactivated.

I'm not outright saying you can't remove them, but I think it might be wise for you to specifically use the word mentions in your edit summary when you take them away. That way, if interest in that thread reignites, and someone comes up with a clever way of reintegrating mentions, it'll be easy to find in the history. <span style="">17:41: Tue 06 Mar 2012
 * p.s. Thanks for helping with you may and dab page. It's not something I can easily fix with the bot.  Should've thought about putting it on a template years ago — or at least before the last six months, where there's been an explosion of disambiguative editing.

Infoboxes
Yeah, the bot and I are fully engaged. The problems of bulletised lists in infobox has been an unexpected "joy". It's probably best for the weekeend if you just send me notes on problems you find, instead of attempting to fix them yourself. The bot is having to make several individualised runs over the stories, which means you might trip up the bot if you decide to focus your editing on stories. I'm not saying "don't edit story pages", though. If you can improve the pages by adding new content, fine. But don't focus your energies on the infoboxes, and don't edit several infoboxes in a row, until Monday. <span style="">23:54: Fri 09 Mar 2012

Answering your questions about Infobox Story
All great questions! Here are the answers, in the order you asked:
 * 1) The definition of a "main setting" is surely subjective, but maybe if I give a few examples it'll make sense. It's the same variable that it's always been, just with a different label.  By changing the label, I was hoping to encourage a reduction in clutter a bit.  A lot of these pages had ridiculous detail ("London, England, UK, Earth" when "London" is just fine).  To answer your question directly, I would say it's best to keep it to just a single, broad location, unless the action really is split. With Closing Time, for instance, It's really just Colchester.  The bit at the university doesn't warrant the additional space that mentioning it would take up.  What people have to remember with infoboxes is that the more info they contain, the longer the infobox is, and the more the pics on the page are going to get screwed up.  They're not meant to house every single detail of the production.  There should be just enough to jog the memory or otherwise merely identify the programme.  The article is where the details should be.  If the action is truly split 50/50 between two locations, maybe it's okay to put them both down.  But, y'know, The Five Doctors happens on Gallifrey, period.  There's no need to say, "some of it's in the Citadel, some of it's in the Death Zone, some of it's in the Tomb of Rassilon, and a wee bit of it is back on Earth".  And The Doctor Dances happens in London during the Blitz".  There are smallish scenes which happen elsewhere, but "London during the Blitz" is more than enough.  I guess what I'm saying is that an infobox should be about economy''. Find the fewest amount of words to indicate the truest sense of the episode, and you've solved the riddle.
 * 2) Double-banked episodes aren't actually completely double-banked. In every case, one of them always enters production first.  For instance, the first shot for Blink was 7 November 2006.  It's just the main part of the shoot that happens around the latter part of the month, when Human Nature was also in production. I'm not aware of a case where two episodes started production on exactly the same date. If I don't get around to adding in all this production order myself, just trust Shannon Sullivan's site.  He's researched this stuff quite thoroughly and has things production ordered as correctly as possible, based on the evidence available.  I've independently checked him versus the Virgin Handbook series, and some DWM products.  While I have very occasionally found errors in some of his facts, I've never seen an error on any production ordering.
 * 3) I would say that Dreamland is not a part of the production before/next chain, but it is a part of the broadcast chain. I personally would consider the previous/next chain to go WOM, Dreamland, EOT. But I'm open to persuasion, if you've got a compelling argument.
 * 4) Infobox Story is already in place on K9, SJA and TW pages, and appears to be handling things quite well. It will soon be on every type of story page.  I don't see any good reason why we need all these different infoboxes with all these different variables.  It should be possible for editors to reliable know that they can use "name" for the name of any story, regardless of medium, for instance.  Ultimately, this template will be the only one you need for writing story pages.
 * 5) I haven't looked at EOT specifically yet. I'm not aware of any particular issue, though, since both  and  will accommodate multiple responses.  Could you be more specific about your concerns?

If you have further questions, of course feel free to ask them. <span style="">01:59: Sat 10 Mar 2012

Images by comic stories
Hmmm, I'm not sure what went wrong there. I'm guessing these few categories got shortchanged when I had a power failure that occurred while I was AFK. Glad you caught it. I'll, um, put it on the list of things to correct.

I'm guessing btw, that The Unheard Voice and Doomcloud confusion in particular, came from the fact that a user has been obsessed with confusingly putting these "stories with disputed Doctors" into both categories, instead of just focussing on the original printing. So yeah, if I had to take a guess at the bot error, it was that they got picked up on the TVC run and then weren't added to PHS/TVA categories because the bot had already made it through.

As you might have imagined, I've moved on with the bot, so this corrective run might be a few days away. If things don't change by this time next week, remind me please. <span style="">00:46: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Trickster
Speaking of reminders, there's something from the top of my talk page that I preserved when I archived, and I still don't know the answer to it. You asked what we should do with the Trickster. And I dunno. Apparently there's yet a third Trickster running around out there, cause there's one in Love and War. So we've got the Trickster, Trickster (Kinda) and Trickster (Love and War). I was listening to the DW Book Club Podcast about Love and War, though, and they're of the opinion that nothing prevents the Love and War Trickster from being the SJA Trickster. So at this point, I'd say, ask the question at the forums and hope that someone has a better idea than me. <span style="">00:46: Sun 11 Mar 2012
 * You'd think so, but the thing is that if you can't definitively separate them, then maybe they're the same character. Yanno what I mean?  I mean, I'm sure Gareth Roberts read Love and War.  He had to.  This isn't like three guys all named "John Brown" or something.  It's more akin to the situation of Gorgon.  We currently have two pages, but there's absolutely nothing, AFAIK, which prevents us putting the SJA Gorgons and the TVC Gorgons on the same page, like we do with the Pied Piper.  The Trickster is an archetypal, mythological character.  I think we need definitive proof, first, that the characters are demonstrably different before we put them on different pages.  <span style="">07:07: Sun 11 Mar 2012

bp
Yeah, don't bother manually deleting bp. I'm just going to change what it does. A lot more efficient. Might take me a bit of time to get around to it, but it's a simple fix. <span style="">07:07: Sun 11 Mar 2012
 * bp has been neutered now. As for raw HTML, it's easily removed through a couple of bot processes.  I'm behind schedule, so it's probably now more likes next week when I'll have all this done.  But the bot runs were refined yesterday and seem to be working well enough.  <span style="">18:29: Sun 11 Mar 2012
 * Hmmmm, sorry if that was vague. The "above code you mentioned" is "raw HTML". So, yes, I'll take care of fixing all things about the infoboxes.  Please move on to other things except the infoboxes for a while, if you would.  Keep notifying me if you see strange things, of course. But I'll take care of both the bp and HTML ways of creating bulleted lists.  It'll be fine :)   <span style="">19:26: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Vehicle images
Well I hadn't really thought one way or the other about interior images. I'd guess there's nothing wrong with interior images, but I had not envisioned there being too many of those. What did you have in mind? Something like shots of people strolling on the decks of the SS Bernice? Shots of Torchwood in the SUV?

I guess the way I'd use the category is that if it's a useful shot of the interior, then I'd count it. If it's not, I wouldn't. Like, if you can see the dashboard of the SUV, that's prolly a good vehicle shot. If it's a close shot from behind the windshield, just looking at the people in the SUV/helicopter/whatever, then I personally wouldn't call that a vehicle shot, so much as a shot of the people involved.

Almost any TARDIS interior, for instance is useful to identify as a TARDIS interior, cause you get something from the backgrounds you can see. But shots of people in cars, eh, I dunno — unless you can see some instrumentation or a significant part of the body.

Broadly speaking, though, I'm not gonna be doing a hell of a lot of correction of people on these image categories. Categorisation is almost always better than non-categorisation, even if the categorisation is iffy. If you can justify it in your own mind, I can prolly live with it. <span style="">18:29: Sun 11 Mar 2012
 * I'd prolly say yay to the Titanic's nuclear storm drive. But then I could see that most VOTD and Midnight shots would be fine.  I'd probably go the extent of creating a separate subcat for each ("Titanic spaceship images" and "whatever-that-thing-is-called images") just because there'd be more than three images from each.   <span style="">19:31: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Place of origin
Do you really think it's necessary to put 'Cardiff, Wales' as someone's place of origin, when 'Cardiff' would suffice? In my opinion, it's not really needed, it like someone putting Cardiff, Wales, UK, Earth in the setting section - it just unneeded, extra info. MM/ Want to talk? 20:33, March 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * That's a good questions, we can't really put [place], [country] for some, and just [place] for others. I would, personally, just put [place]. People can easily click on the link to find out where it is, and it will be the article anyway. The infobox should be a summary, not exact. MM/ Want to talk? 20:49, March 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Right now, it should be left till Czechout is done with the infobox. Ideally it would be good to have the same patter running through all the story infoboxes ([place]). However, we should wait and see what happens and whatever is easier. Your idea for putting it in for smaller places that people may not know, does sound reasonable. MM/ Want to talk? 21:01, March 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * As MM is saying go specific, go succinct. To reiterate a point I made earlier on the page:
 * I guess what I'm saying is that an infobox should be about economy. Find the fewest amount of words to indicate the truest sense of the episode, and you've solved the riddle.
 * So: "London", not "London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe, Earth". Or "Paris", not "Paris, France" (but Paris, New Mexico, because that won't be expected).  Or New York City or State of New York, because New York is too vague. Equally, I understand the distinction some people make when they link to things like Kingdom of France instead of just France, or the Colony of Virginia instead of just Virginia, but it's really not necessary for the infobox.  Remember, we're trying to limit the vertical size of the infobox.  I mean, I love Wookieepedia, but some of their infoboxes are truly out of control, and they make mobile viewing a sheer misery.  A big part of this exercise is not just achieving a standard look to infoboxes but also to make them consumable in a matter of seconds. So, choose the right word or two, remember that our users can click on links so they don't need to be spoonfed every bit of detail, and all will be well.   <span style="">22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Please don't edit infoboxes
I feel like I've answered this question three times today. Maybe I'm not being blunt enough. Please stop editing infoboxes at all, except to the extent that you are starting new articles. Plenty of other things to edit on the wiki. <span style="">20:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Voice actor
Yanno, I think this is just voice actors in general, inasmuch as those actors are different from the actor specified at. So Tom Baker isn't the voice actor listed at Fourth Doctor.

As this is literally a brand new article, I've not had time to think about whether the language should read a little differently. And we have time to rejigger this, because it doesn't exist on most pages yet. So there's plenty of wiggle room on these variables. I set to read "Other TV actors". I was gonna make read "Main TV actor", but then I remembered the infobox would be used for the Dalek films characters, where TV wouldn't apply. Maybe I should make it so that, for those few film characters, there's a different variable, like }. Kick it around with MM, who requested the variable, and see what you guys come up with. I do think the labels of Main TV actor, Other TV actor, Voice actor makes sense. K9's a conundrum for me, because there is no other actor involved. So why wouldn't you just put him down as ? On the other hand, characters like Alpha Centauri and Judoon captain (Smith and Jones) clearly have a physical actor and a voice actor. So we probably do need to have.

I dunno — this part of the infobox isn't set in stone yet. Why don't you guys start talking about in on forum:New infoboxes and you and maybe we'll come to a good conclusion over time. It all can be added and fixed relatively easily later, because, again, these variables are brand new. <span style="">22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Help!
And, finally, speaking of that forum thread, could I get you to do a huge favor for me? I really need to get back to hardcore editing and infobox implementation. But I don't want to leave the community behind. Would you consider cutting and pasting these infobox conversations that I've had here, user talk:Gousha, user talk:Tangerineduel and user talk:Mini-mitch to forum:New infoboxes and you? If you can, please put them into neatly titled sections so that new readers can understand what's going on and what's already been debated. It would really help to get all this stuff onto one page, so that we are all on one page about infoboxes. It doesn't have to be an exact cut and paste. If editing it will provide quicker comprehension of the basic points, do that. But it's clear to me we need some sort of single discussion resource, and I just don't have the time to do it.

Actually, here's a better idea. Create several different, clearly labelled threads. One for each aspect covered. So Forum:Infobox:Actor variables, Forum:Infobox: Place of origin variable, Forum:Infobox:Affiliation variable, etc. Put them all into Category:Infobox discussions Then, just add the following code to forum:New infoboxes and you: allowcachedresults=true columns=3 shownamespace=false category=Infobox discussions Yeah, that's probably a better idea if you can possibly spare some time to do it. (Pretty please with a chocolate Romana I on top?) <span style="">22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012
 * Sorry for the delay. Lost in thought over a tricky little bit of regex.  As long as you've created the forum thread properly (i.e., by going to forum:panoopticon  and using the new thread input box, it will automatically be in category:panopticon.  If you tried to do a shortcut by using a "new page" button somewhere then you have to manually add  at the very top of the page.  In other words, don't just put it in cat:panop, but actually use forumheader to do it.


 * Oh, and here's a bit of infobox-related cleanup work you can do. Apparently, the bot went a little wild on a few TV story pages and changed the first link in the lead paragraph, rather than the last link in the infobox. So if you want to quickly scour the first paragraph of each TV story page, beginning with AUC and going through to Wardrobe, that'd be cool. The error's easy to spot.  There's just a totally random (comic story) or {TV story) next to something that should be linked but isn't — like maybe.


 * I think the error was limited to just DW TV story pages, not all TV story pages in general.


 * At the same time, if you want to put in proper / for all stories, based on Shannon Sullivan's site, that shouldn't interrupt the bot. I've done a little stretch as an example, from The Invisible Enemy to Warriors' Gate.  It's a good mix because one of the seasons was filmed as broadcast, but the others are seriously screwed up.  It shows when made prev/next are necessary and when they aren't.


 * Obviously, you don't have to do any of this, but it's definitely a thing that the bot wouldn't be efficient at doing. <span style="">02:19: Mon 12 Mar 2012
 * Re, that puppy's dead.  Since then I've just decided to whack it.  Deleting a variable and its contents is super easy, and I can mark it with an edit summary, so that it can be found later if necessary.  It doesn't need to be archived, because there's already a thread in the tech notes section about it.  I'll just add a little note there later.  But removing a dummy variable is sorta low on the list of the things the bot needs to do.   <span style="">02:24: Mon 12 Mar 2012

Questions 12 March (early)

 * Images separated only by capitalisation: both should absolutely be flagged. Actually, if you see pics that have anything but all lower case versions of file extensions, or .jpeg instead of .jpg, these should be flagged.  T:ICC gives the exact form of file extensions, and they are , period.
 * For the moment, let's keep Dreamland only on the prev/next story axis. It shouldn't be on the made prev/made next axis.  It's the opposite case of Shada.  I think we probably could find a start date somewhere, maybe in the DWMSE relative to the last year of Ten.  But that's research work that's, to my mind, of secondary importance right now.  Always easily changeable later.
 * While you're fixin' Dreamland, don't forget that we now have and that variable should be BBC Red Button for Dreamland.
 * And just to pre-answer your next question, since the vote in Forum:Attack of the Graske: tv or video game seems to be going video game more than TV, it's not a part of the prev/next chain on TV stories, but video games.
 * And just to pre-answer your next next question, The Infinite Quest is in the previous/next broadcast chain, between The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords, since both the first broadcast of the final part and the first broadcast of the entire thing was on the day before LOTL. Remember, previous and next are about whatever is in the range variable (I may in fact pull the range down to navigation to make that clearer).  And the range here is "DW TV stories".  The fact that Quest isn't officially part of series 3 is quite beside the point that the navigation is trying to achieve.
 * Billy Wilkins unusually had a pipe trick in the image declaration, which the bot wasn't at all expecting, because pipe tricks achieve nothing in the context of an infobox.
 * Revelation of the Daleks had a previous injury done by another user. The box was in fact collapsed before the bot's last few touches of it.
 * Kymbra Chimera also had a weird image declaration.
 * user:Americanwhofan asked about Hath Gable, but you should know about this specific type of problem too. Because I wasn't expecting people to put infoboxes all on one line — an approach that technically works, but isn't at all recommended or suggested — I didn't program the bot to expect that. Consequently, the bot may have destroyed a few pages along the way.  If you see pages that are now effectively empty, the solution, which must be done manually, is to undo the bot edit (or go to the last version of the page before it was destroyed, restore it, and then manually edit the infobox to the new standard.  Or you can just send me a link to the page.  Now that I know I have to expect the odd page that's done this way, I'm universally changing my programming to guard against this kind of destruction.  But I'm guessing there must be similar damage on less than 1% of pages.

That's it for this round of questions. Short stories and comic stories will be converted in a few minutes. Hopefully, I can get through the main conversion of all story infoboxes today. <span style="">15:26: Mon 12 Mar 2012
 * Um, what tweaks do you need to do to prev/next on TV stories? You shouldn't be seeing syntactical errors there, with TV stories.  There may be the odd factual change necessary (like, the wrong story entirely is in one of the variables).  Those are fine to change.  But if you are seeing things like extraneous brackets or non-italicisation, I need to know where, please.  I thought I was about ready to release those variables to you, but the fact that you're suggesting a need for tweaks is slightly concerning.   (Prev/next are still absolutely off limits with all other story types.)   <span style="">15:52: Mon 12 Mar 2012
 * Yes, if you're seeing "lots" still on television pages, I need to know what they are. <span style="">16:00: Mon 12 Mar 2012
 * Okay, I've just rerun the bot, and the only prev/next errors I picked up on was at Timelash, at least as far as DW was concerned. There's also the bit with those stories where people tried to put more than one preceding story, but that's not a bot error.  I think I can safely release prev story/next story on television pages only to you in one hour from the timestamp of this message.  (There are, to be sure other errors on television pages that I need to look at, particularly why Attack of the Cybermen is resistant to the post-bullet-removal clean.)   <span style="">16:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012
 * Ohhhhhh. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you appear to be talking about something that doesn't actually display, right?   You're talking about the extra "name (TV story)" that happens on stories which actually need the disambuation term, like The End of Time and Castrovalva.  Yeah, in a strict sense it "shouldn't be there".  In another sense, though, it's harmless. I can get rid of those through a bot run, but that's super low priority because it has no effect on the way the box displays. If you're talking about something else let me know.   <span style="">19:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012

One hour halt on all TV story editing
Please stop editing TV story pages for one hour from 19:17, March 12, 2012 (UTC) so that I can quickly get the name situation fixed. At the end of that hour, you may recommence, and the previous/next story variables will be open to your editing pleasure. Please introduce the variables and  for those two special situations like AUC and TDTWATW to indicate where there is no prev or next. I'll drop it in the template shortly, but it may not display immediately. Previous/next note will actually be of more use in other media. <span style="">19:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012

Prev/next update
Can't remember where I put info about what to do when there's no prev/next item. But I just wanted to give you a heads up that I changed my programming motif on this one. Before I'd said I'd do something with /. This has now been abandoned. Instead, simply enter  in the prev/next field. This seems much easier for users than having a whole different variable. You can see it working at An Unearthly Child. <span style="">20:19: Fri 16 Mar 2012

Thanks!
Don't think I ever formally thanked you for setting up all the stuff at the forum. I think that's been extremely helpful to people because I've heard zero grumbling about these changes. Questions, comments and helpful suggestions, yes — but no actual bitchin'. Which means, I think, that you've created a system that helps people feel engaged in the process. And that means, of course, that your work was not just swift but valuable. <span style="">20:19: Fri 16 Mar 2012

Companion cat
Yeah, people have gone crazy with companions lately. An easy bot fix, though, which is why I've not been terribly quick to correct it. A list from you would be helpful though, as it would serve as the basis for a more permanent, automated fix, as opposed to one I'd have to manage by hand. <span style="">21:52: Sat 24 Mar 2012

Companions
Hey, is it okay to argue that David Campbell and H. G. Wells are companions? David travelled with the Doctor for almost all of Legacy of the Daleks, and Herbert stowed away aboard the TARDIS hoping to see the universe, similar to Zoe... And does The Time Machination suggest they Futher travelled? I think I read that somewhere... What do you think? OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 01:15, March 25, 2012 (UTC)]]
 * Okay, I've stripped most of these guys of their companion status. There might have been one or two I missed just because the first run needed to be done manually.  Later runs, done as part of regular maintenance, will be more automatic.


 * Coupla points I'd disagree with you on, Tybort, only because we've had preceding arguments on the wiki.
 * Biggest one is Canton Delaware. He's fully a companion as it's implied there are months between Astronaut and Moon.  Plus, he gets a blue envelope not for nothin.'  And he's in three eps, not just a two parter.  And he's obviously been on a few TARDIS rides. By every traditional fan measurement, he's a companion.
 * Jackie Tyler is a companion. Largely cause I say so.  :)  No, but seriously, she does all the traditional things.  Multiple TARDIS journeys.  Defends the Doctor.  (Love & Monsters FTW).  Nurses a Doctor post-regeneratively.  Known in multiple dimensions. The Doctor even spent Christmas dinner with her.  She's really quite different to any of the companion mothers that followed. It's really hard to find an argument against her being a companion.
 * K9 Mark IV does count. Multiple adventures.  Journey's End and Wedding.
 * K9 III I don't have a particular problem with under Tenth Doctor companions. I mean he gave his life for the Tenth Doctor.  It's a border case but I'm not really going to fight the fight on that one, cause people will always just put it back.  I don't really know off the top of my head what the Six connection is, but I'm leaving it for the time being.  The contentious one is actually Fourth Doctor. You're right to cite the annuals, as that's the most likely explanation.  But we don't really have any narrative proof of that.  An alternate explanation is that the K9/Adric stories merely take place when Romana is sleeping.   At least I assume that works.  Been a while since I've looked at that annual.  In any case I think the category asserts something we don't know is true. Again, though, I'm leaving it in place until more study can be done.


 * Aside from those, there are a few which I went ahead and removed, but are questionable.


 * Like OS says, David Campbell is right on the border because of Legacy, but I'm not particularly convinced. It's much more like a one-off case, like H. G. Wells.  A trip in the TARDIS doesn't generally count for most fans, so it's counter-intuitive to assert Wells as a companion.


 * user:Tangerineduel is, I think, of the impression that Jason Kane probably doesn't count either, but I've left that alone for now.


 * Lynda Moss I've removed but honestly I don't know that I'll police it. She basically is acting, like Astrid, as a companion on her first adventure, but then she gets killed before she can enter the TARDIS. She accepted his invitation to travel with him so she's probably a companion.  To be honest with you, I was moving quickly with the manual deletion and I deleted her before I fully thought about it, and can't be bothered to undo the change!


 * Some people are gonna cry foul on Jago and Litefoot, but such people can suck it. Just because you get a Companion Chronicle doesn't actually make you a companion.


 * I dunno that Lily Arwell counts. If anyone, the companion is Madge. In the modern era we go with billing, if the narrative gives us no indication of true companion status.


 * And on your side note, what stuff is incorrectly alphabetised? Check first to make sure that NameSort isn't being overriden.  If not, then I'd be interested in seeing a few examples. I can then determine if there's a way to program some new way around the particular problem.  <span style="">01:47: Sun 25 Mar 2012