User talk:Captain Infinity

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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. Shambala108 ☎  06:23, January 13, 2015 (UTC)

Re: thank you
Hi! Receiving your (I assume) sarcastic message, I'm at a loss as to what you expected me to do about an edit that was incorrect. "Continuity" entries must link to stories. Your edit, as you even stated, has not been explained in any story. Therefore, it does not belong under "Continuity". I adequately explained my reasoning in the edit summary.

The thing you have to realize is that this is a large wiki with a huge number of policies. If new users want to jump in and start editing, that is fine, but they will find themselves violating policies of which they are unaware. Then it is the admins' job to clean up and explain those edits.

Another thing, on this wiki we try as much as possible to say things like "it has not been explained" or "it is unexplained". Aside from the fact that it is not very encyclopedia-like, there is also the real possibility that in some story supposedly unexplained facts are actually explained. So it's just better to avoid those kinds of phrases whenever possible.

Thanks. Shambala108 ☎  01:58, July 12, 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi! You have claimed that I have reverted, in your words on my talk page, "every single one" of your edits on this wiki. That is not true. Not counting your edits on my talk page or your user page, you have 12 edits on this wiki. I have reverted only five (two of which were done in one reversion... more on that in a bit).


 * Your edits at The Shakespeare Code (TV story), Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter) and Night Terrors (TV story) were adequately explained in the edit summary. However, if you wish, I will explain my reasoning here.
 * For The Shakespeare Code, you explained away a supposed production error. However, if it's not an error, then it doesn't need to be on the page. I wasn't so much as reverting your edit as removing the entire entry, as your edit showed it was no longer necessary.
 * For Jenny, I regularly remove info that is not relevant to a page. A long description of Osgood's status as a companion has no relevance to the Jenny page.
 * For Night Terrors, all Continuity entries must link to a story. Your entry, according to your edit, has not yet been explained in any story. Therefore, it does not belong in the Continuity section. If you want to place it somewhere on the page, it would probably fit best in Story Notes.
 * The only reversion of your edits that I have made without explanation is Dark Water. The reason for the removal is that you included a plot hole/discontinuity in the production errors. On this wiki, we have a clear difference between plot holes and production errors. Plot holes and the like do not belong on the story pages. We have a separate namespace for those, partly because the back-and-forth discussion that comes from plot hole debates was way too long to include on the already very long story pages.


 * The reason I did not explain this reversion has to do with an editing tool called a "rollback" that admins have that regular users don't have. It's the ability to revert a single user's multiple edits to a single page at once. I use this when a user makes several edits to a page in succession, and makes one or more errors but then edits again, so a simple "undo" will not work. The big drawback to this rollback is that it doesn't allow for an edit summary. In your case, you added a plot hole entry to the page, then made another separate edit to the page, making it impossible to revert the incorrect edit with a simple "undo". Shambala108 ☎  04:15, July 21, 2015 (UTC)

Re: redirect
Hi! I've taken a look at the past deletion rationals, and it looks like User:CzechOut thinks it's not worthwhile to create such a redirect, probably because quite a lot of DW stories start with the word "the", and we don't have redirects for them. I can see that it would be helpful for trying to view the page if such a redirect existed, but then we would end up with editors actually editing with the wrong title if we allowed the redirect. Shambala108 ☎  22:20, August 17, 2015 (UTC)
 * Makes sense, thanks. --Captain Infinity ☎  05:06, August 18, 2015 (UTC)