User:NateBumber

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

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

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

Renames

 * Awsok Tecteun to Tecteun (Flux), per Talk:Awsok Tecteun
 * The Corsair (The Doctor's Wife) to Ninth Corsair, The Corsair (Old Friends) to Fourth Corsair, and The Corsair (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes) to Seventh Corsair, per Talk:The Corsair
 * Dalek invasion of Mars to 2150s Dalek invasion of Mars


 * First Morbius to Morbius I, First Tecteun to Tecteun I, etc, per Talk:First Morbius
 * Grant (The Return of Doctor Mysterio) to Grant Gordon (see the talk page), and Lucy Fletcher to Lucy Lombard (see the talk page)
 * Either
 * Interference (novel) to Interference (prose series) — see Thread:257975; or
 * Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) to Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two, as argued here; or
 * Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) both merged into Interference (novel), as unsuccessfully suggested here.
 * Main Range to The Monthly Adventures
 * Patience (The Tides of Time) to Patience (Cold Fusion)
 * All the Short Trips and Decalog anthologies: for instance, Short Trips: Zodiac to Zodiac (anthology) (see this talk page)

Speedy renames

 * Chinese girl (Children of Earth: Day One) to Taiwanese girl (Children of Earth)
 * Gungnir to Lance of Longinus
 * Sleepy (novel) to SLEEPY (novel)

Mergers

 * Billy (Pier Pressure) into William Hartnell (Pier Pressure)
 * Hashish into Cannabis
 * Josef (Closing the Account) into Joseph Stalin
 * Keitel into Wilhelm Keitel
 * Legg into Harold Legg
 * Marijuana into Cannabis
 * Morok guard 2 into Morok technician
 * Mystery Lady - S01E01, E02, E03, E04, E05, E06, and E07 into Mystery Lady (see talk page)
 * President (Death Comes to Time) into George W. Bush
 * Prime Minister (Death Comes to Time) into Tony Blair

Policy
Except where otherwise noted, it's my understanding that many of these suggestions would require forum threads before implementation; I am intimately familiar with T:BOUND, and I cannot and will not act on those until then. That said, I believe the forums will likely never return, and we would do well to wind up a stand-in before the to-do list grows any longer.
 * We should use sortable tables so stories in bibliographies and lists of appearances can be sorted both chronologically and by medium: see Sabbath Dei - list of appearances for an example. Most of this could be automated with SemanticWiki one day, along the lines of Bongolium500's excellent citation template proposal.
 * Also, why oh why don't we use Sabbath Dei/List of appearances instead of Sabbath Dei - list of appearances – or for that matter, Faction Paradox (series)/Covers rather than Faction Paradox covers?
 * The way metafictional information on this wiki is presented tends to be incredibly confusing to the not we, who expect pages like Doctor Who Series 9 to be about … you know … Doctor Who Series 9. We need better and more explicit policy for disambiguation in this kind of scenario; see Talk:The Woman Who Lived and Talk:Dave Stone. As just one example out of many, Erasing Sherlock should be Erasing Sherlock (N-Space) or Erasing Sherlock (The Doctor's universe).
 * The implications of Shambala108's ruling that character pages should only have 2-3 sentences per story have yet to be realised on the wiki.
 * The Master must be split into incarnation pages at earliest opportunity. To avoid the bickering over naming that has sidetracked previous attempts, we should disambiguate by first appearance as a suboptimal-yet-neutral temporary Schelling point: The Master (Terror of the Autons), The Master (Dominion), Missy, The Master (Utopia), War Master, etc. Better names can then be decided on the individual talk pages.
 * Large portions of Third Doctor should be redirected to Exile on Earth, where events can be discussed in more detail.
 * Per CzechOut's decision that novelisations are valid sources,
 * EITHER Joe (Scream of the Shalka) should be renamed Joe Latham and Chief Inspector (The Lost Boy) should be renamed Robert Lines (see Sandbox3 for a longer list);
 * OR Cass Fermazzi should be renamed Cass (The Night of the Doctor), Crane should be renamed Nurse (The Curse of Fenric), and Edward Wright should be renamed Polly Wright's father.
 * Additionally, novelisations and other adaptations should be included in lists of appearances, just as they already are on Patience, Iranda, etc.
 * For a wiki run by fans for fans, we care an awful lot about licensing! If 100% of the audience understands that a character is obviously intended to be (for instance) the Doctor, we should just cover them as the Doctor, regardless of the exact legalities. The Homeworld precedent already hints at this, but a broader policy would also allow us to recognise the Cosmic Hobo as the Doctor, the Mistress (The Choice) as Romana II, and the Imperator as the Morbius I. (See Sandbox3 for a longer list; see also my thoughts on Time Lord incarnation names.)
 * This interview has me rethinking how we write on this wiki. I haven't settled on anything articulable yet, but my changes to The Beatles and Musée d'Orsay indicate the trajectory of my thinking.
 * Characters and concepts with mentions or minor appearances in other universes don't need separate pages; for instance, it serves no one to separate our coverage of Moira (Shadow World) from Moira (The Pilot), Jevon (Ascension) from Jevon (Emancipation), or Red Pagoda from Moulin Rouge.