User:NateBumber

Hi! I'm Nate, a fellow who wears many hats: moderator of the r/doctorwho and r/gallifrey communities; admin of the Faction Paradox and Obverse wikis; and few-time Faction Paradox short story writer! 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.

Come join our growing community of wiki editors at the official Doctor Who Discord! (When you join, just ping me @NateBumber#5584 to give you the Wiki role.)

Changes I'd currently like on the wiki
A brief catalogue of my relevant (and irrelevant) Sandbox pages can be found at User:NateBumber/Sandbox. Big thanks to all the admins who have helped with things on this list!

Renames

 * Barnaby Edwards to Barnaby Edwards (Old Friend), and Barnaby Edwards (actor) to Barnaby Edwards.
 * Brenda to Brenda (disambiguation), and this should be done with most disambiguation pages.
 * Brenda (The Boy That Time Forgot) to Brenda.
 * Charged Vacuum Emboitment to Charged Vacuum Emboitement.
 * Dave Stone to Dave Stone (Many Happy Returns), then Dave Stone (writer) to Dave Stone.
 * Derek Johnson to Derek Johnson (actor).
 * DWBIT Dalek Wars to Dalek Wars (series).
 * Edifice (TARDIS) to Edifice (The Ancestor Cell); Edifice (building) to Edifice (The Forever Trap); and Edifice (spaceship) to Edifice (The Sirens of Time).
 * Either Interference (novel) to Interference (prose series) — see this Panopticon thread — or Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) to Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two, as originally argued here.
 * John Lucarotti to John Lucarotti (The Meeting), then John Lucarotti (writer) to John Lucarotti.
 * Main Range to The Monthly Adventures.
 * Maxie (The Door We Forgot) to Maxie Masters.
 * Poppy Munday's mam to Winnie (Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective).
 * Sabbath Dei to Sabbath.
 * Andrew Williams to Andrew Williams (electrician), then Andrew Williams (She Came From Another World!) to Andrew Williams.
 * The Crystal Bucephalus to Crystal Bucephalus.
 * Tim Shaw's pod to Tzim-Sha's pod.
 * Torchwood (TV series) to Torchwood (series), as its fifth and sixth series have been audio rather than television.
 * Untitled (DWS short story) to Untitled (short story), as unlike all the other "Untitled"s on the wiki, its actual title is "Untitled". (Thanks for the headache, Rob!)
 * Wirrn Breeding Colonies to Andromeda Gamma Epsilon.
 * There are a ton of unnamed Torchwood characters whose pages have generic-description titles without any episode dab terms: Young policeman; Scene-of-crime officer; Pizza lad; Murdered woman; Hen night girl; Senior nurse; and Parliamentary Secretary are just a few. Chinese girl is also ... odd.

Mergers

 * Arnold Korns and Arthur Corn into Arthur Korns
 * Charon (Deadly Reunion) into Charon (Katarina in the Underworld)
 * City (The Aztecs) into Tenochtitlan
 * Galaxy 7 into Seventh Galaxy
 * Giles Case File - Stacey Facade (webcast) into Case File - Stacey Facade (webcast)
 * Global Chemicals into Panorama Chemicals
 * Mordee (people) into Mordee expedition
 * Planet (The Face of Evil) into Mordee
 * Praxis gas into Praxis
 * Tasha's father into Andrew Williams (She Came From Another World!)
 * User:NateBumber/Sandbox/Ulysses into Ulysses
 * Varn into Presidential bodyguard (The Invasion of Time)
 * Venusian Lullaby into Venusian lullaby
 * Vulcan (Invasion of the Daleks) into Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)

Restorations

 * The pages listed at User:NateBumber/Sandbox2, per Thread:264328.

Deletions

 * Mordee (disambiguation)
 * User:NateBumber/UserPage

Policy

 * I support the main ideas of OttselSpy25's proposal that Rule 4 invalid stories with the Doctor Who license should instead be treated as alternate universes – in particular, see my thoughts here – and I believe a majority of editors (and admins) on this wiki would, too.
 * 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 up into The Master (Terror of the Autons), The Master (Dominion), Missy, The Master (Utopia), War Master, etc so there's more room to discuss each story. See Talk:The Master/Archive 6.
 * Most material about the Doctor's childhood on First Doctor should be removed and redirected to The Doctor's early life, in accord with T:NPOV. See Talk:The Doctor's early life.
 * Likewise, 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 Mitchell (The Sea Devils) should be renamed Tony Mitchell, Pilot (The Horns of Nimon) should be renamed Sekkoth, and Mickey Smith's mother should be renamed Odessa Smith (see here for a longer list);
 * OR Edward Wright should be renamed Polly Wright's father, Cass Fermazzi should be renamed Cass (The Night of the Doctor), and Crane should be renamed Nurse (The Curse of Fenric).
 * Additionally, novelisations and other adaptations should be included in lists of appearances, just as they already are on Patience et al.
 * Lists of appearances should be sorted chronologically rather than by medium. It just makes sense that the story listed in the "First appearance" variable should be the first entry on the list, regardless of medium; the current "TV, audio, prose, comic" standard is an apparent violation of T:NPA. In a chronological list format, medium can still be indicated via the standard prefixes (PROSE et al).