User talk:Acardwell415

Apologies
I'm sorry for not getting back to you on your proposal. You know, I'm here normally 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. But it seems like in the coupla weeks I stepped back for personal reasons, all of Wikia descended on my talk page, and I've disappointed more Wikia Staff members than I knew existed.

While Tardis definitely does want to participate in the wider Wikia world, your fashion proposal would invite our community to break with our local spoiler policy. It's against site policy to reveal casting before episodes have been broadcast. So officially, our wiki doesn't even know who's been cast — and I personally, actually, honest-to-God, do not know. (You apparently revealed the casting in your comment, but another user helpfully redacted your revelation before I could read it.) I just wouldn't feel comfortable recommending that our users, who are used to a very strict spoiler policy, go off to a place where they would, of necessity, encounter that very spoiler. It would create an administrative headache that's just not worth having. Maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough, but I don't see how I can on the one hand say that people will be blocked if they reveal this casting information on Tardis, but on the other recommend that they dress the new Doctor on another wiki.

Put another way, I feel like this asks me to help the development of w:c:fashion to the detriment of w:c:tardis. Before this spoiler rule, this wiki was an absolute nightmare to administer. We had so much maintenance caused by articles replete rumours and speculation and supposed future knowledge. Although this rule has to be defended quite often, that is nothing compared to the cleanup work required before.

So while I'm happy to engage and enhance w:c:fashion — we have plenty of articles in Category:fashion and clothing — I don't initially see how I could possibly recommend this to our community prior to 25 December 2013. That may seem like a really late date to you, but remember that Twelve is not going to be in costume on that date; he or she will be wearing Smtih's outfit. And principal photography hasn't started on series 8 yet, nor do we have a start date for it. So there is every possibility that we'll get to the Christmas special without a picture of Twelve in costume. (Having said that, I have been largely away from my computer for two weeks and a production start date may have been given.) 08:13: Tue 03 Sep 2013

Lifestyle
Hi! I'd be happy to help out. For the immediate future, I have a bunch of real-life things going on for the next five days or so, and I will mostly just be patrolling the wiki here and playing around when I have a break. In the meantime, if you want to add more specific info on my talk page, feel free. Then I can read it when I get a chance and get an idea of what you need. Shambala108 ☎  22:31, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Parental filter
¡Hola, chica!

Hey, on the Parent Filter, we've got a little problem with Doctor Who, and I was hoping for your advice. Stories are rated individually as they come out on TV, but then either the box set has another rating, or the individual story gets re-rated by the BBFC when it comes out on DVD. In some cases, these might conflict. Which do you think we should use? Rating-on-broadcast, or rating-on-home-sales? 19:16: Wed 23 Oct 2013
 * I think I might be missing the concept of this program. I thought we were putting the template on every story/game/film page. Are we only filling out MediaWiki:ParentFilter? 22:37: Wed 23 Oct 2013
 * Hey, could you to me a favour and take a look at our MediaWiki:ParentFilter? I think I'm finished with it, but I'm still not quite sure I'm doing it correctly, since our topic is so broad.  Thanks :)  04:56: Thu 24 Oct 2013
 * Thanks so much for taking a look at the ParentalFilter. I've floated the TV stuff to the top, per your request. I think in alphabetical terms, but I'm not particularly precious about it.  It makes sense that TV should serve as the "gateway" to the rest.  Plus: pretty pictures at the top!


 * So, I notice that there was talk on the CC page of including a link to this page in the nav bar so parents can find it easily. Is this something you're turning on in the "On the wiki" section — which would make the most sense — or is it something local admin are putting into their modifiable menus?  If so, where are people typically putting it?  06:53: Fri 25 Oct 2013
 * Cool. Well, while you work on getting it to the "On the wiki" menu, I've just put a link on the main page, right underneath the buttons.  That seems like a good and prominent place for it, and shows we're at least trying to proactively placate protective parents.  Heh.  Say that five times fast. :)  01:53: Mon 28 Oct 2013

Food Fiction
Hey! Your dates sound good to me — Nov 4 we nominate foods, Nov 11 we do the poll, and Nov 18 announce the menu.

I will need a couple of days to think of the categories. At first, I really liked your idea of eras, but offhand I can't think of a lot of choices for the earlier eras. I'll probably end up going with something like courses, but I'll need to do a bit of research to see which categories would be best. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  00:47, October 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ok, this is what I've got so far. I'm not real happy with the last one or two, and I don't know if we really want two beverage categories.


 * beverages
 * alcoholic beverages
 * dishes/meals
 * sweets
 * "alien" foods
 * seafood
 * Feel free to change/remove any of these. If I come up with anything else in the next couple of days, I'll pass it along. Shambala108 ☎  05:01, October 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * For seafood, I was thinking of a Third Doctor story where he and the Brigadier are served some fairly exotic seafood dishes. However, I don't really like the category that much; fish fingers would soundly defeat any other choice so there's not much point to it. I like keeping just the four categories you listed:
 * beverages (which would include alcoholic beverages)
 * dishes/meals
 * sweets (and maybe include snacks with it)
 * "alien" foods
 * I think with these four we can get a decent number of submissions. Shambala108 ☎  17:52, October 28, 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to say Board:The Panopticon, as that's the one that allows for user participation in this kind of thing. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  19:21, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we need to drum up some business there. I made specific mention and links to it in our Skype group, but no one has bitten yet.  I'll whip up a little banner for the front page or something today.  Don't panic just yet: our highest volume of editing is always on the weekends.  14:49: Wed 06 Nov 2013
 * Sorry for the delay. Had to pinch-hit today at drwho.answers today and deal with pt.doctorwho issues.  Weird day; spent more time with the Wikia DW family than with Tardis.  Anyway, I'm working on a graphic for our front page that should be live pretty soon.  When it goes live, I'll of course do a Twitter launch to accompany.   01:22: Thu 07 Nov 2013
 * Lol. I just spent some time creating a graphical bar for the front page and ... of course you already had one. Ahhh well, at least there's a link from the front page.   02:43: Thu 07 Nov 2013
 * Eh, first iteration of that sucked. Replaced now with something that's a lot cleaner and more balanced.  Not sure which iteration you saw.  Anyway, you know what I could use when you get a chance — provided you have it — is a clean transparency of the Wikia Food Fiction logo.  03:13: Thu 07 Nov 2013


 * Thanks in no small part to the efforts of T3CHNOCIDE, an advert for the Food for 50 event now appears at the top of all pages over this weekend. Hopefully this will expand our reach over the busiest editing days and we'll get a lot more responses. I've already seen a marked increase in responses, even before this implementation, and am particularly pleased that people I don't even know have taken the bait.  Hoepfully, this ad will mean we reach even IPs.  I've also started Tardis:Food for 50, a page that will help in the collection of pictures for the event, so that your team doesn't have to look around so hard. Our team did well helping out Kate with Tardis:Trivia pictures, so hopefully we'll bear at least some of the graphical burden for you.  Have a great weekend!  00:17: Sat 09 Nov 2013