User talk:The Librarian

OK I had a bit of a clearout....The Librarian 01:36, January 21, 2010 (UTC)

REMEMBERS

 * Continuity: the story titles should be italicised. (The way to work out references from continuity is. References are in-universe and if there's a lot of them organised under category headings (see...Alien Bodies for an example), continuity is out of universe.)
 * Comic strips: check out Template:Infobox Comic Template:Infobox Other Comics
 * Unknown names: Just put the character in Category:Individuals with unknown names or Category:Humans with unknown names. Also put the individual in whatever additional categories also suit them (not just the unknown name category I mean). Also check out the two categories for the general convention and what not. If there's more than one scientist then it would be 'Female Scientist (Brain Drain)' etc. --Tangerineduel 15:41, September 19, 2009 (UTC)

Lee Sullivan - really nice guy!

 * Hi there - just passing through and thought I'd say hello - a really nice page on BiT. Was very amused that some of the isolated images I couldn't remember drawing :) Speaking of which - back to the drawing board for issue 59! Lee Sullivan 20:45, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have spoken with Lee on a number of occassions and he has been very helpful in sourcing some of the work and approving use of his artwork. :) A thoroughly decent chap! Im adding more content (hopefully) soon. The Librarian 01:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Just loved the imagery!! Creepy!!

 * To paraphrase the Dalek movies; Every move you make I see, every sound you utter I hear...(sounds a lot less creepy in the 60s Dalek voices with the lights flashing not in sync with the voices). I'm always around here. --Tangerineduel 07:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Passion / Contempt?! :)
I saw your message on TangerineDuel's talk page... Speaking as "some people" - yes, I am. Our pace of growth is much better than the despised mendicants of the Guild Wars Wiki. Bwahahaha! Monkey with a Gun 01:50, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

Writer in infoboxes
The infoboxes have gone through an edit or two this year, so now if you don't put a field in like |writer= it won't appear, additionally, if you put a field in like writer, but don't actually put anything into it, it also won't appear. --Tangerineduel 07:04, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

So, just to demonstrate:

Below is the infobox with just the name, writer and next story fields filled in:

Below is the infobox with all the fields filled in.


 * The Librarian, hi. I notice you've added a few writers for DWAM comics. Do you know the writer of #61, Sea-Rah? It's blank. (Don't know it myself. I've never seen the magazine where I live.) (Good work, btw. I don't think I've done any editing since I signed up. So many of the articles are in such a state it's hard to see how one can make much difference.) Klippa 02:00, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Magazine covers
Just select 'any uncategorised magazine covers' all the Radio Times covers currently use that see Category:Magazine covers for them all (if you want to add the tag manually it's .  Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:50, April 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Continue using the magazine template and I'll get to it shortly once I've assessed whether to have a 'Radio Times' tag or a BBC Publishing or which way to go with regards to sorting sorting the categories and licencing etc. (I am on it, it'll just take a little while!). --Tangerineduel 17:32, April 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Your requeest was directly beneath a discussion I was having with TD, so I read it, and have a question. If the Radio Times is published by the BBC — and it is, right? — then isn't what we really need a "BBC Magazines" license that could then be used to encompass RT and DWA?  Put another way, can't we just rewrite the existing DWA license to be a general BBC Magazines licesne, then TD would only have to change the name of the license in the dropdown.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  17:38, April 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah...I was about to point that out. The conversation part. The other bit I've yet to get to.
 * That is a nice idea, but I'd likely duplicate the template so it could categorise differently. --Tangerineduel 13:23, April 26, 2010 (UTC)

Comic story layout
Hey, check out Tardis:Format for Comic stories or see Bad Vibrations which has been correctly edited to the layout. I'm guessing you've got a layout saved somewhere in order to write articles offline (I do that with the DWM issues) as I've been through most of the Tenth Doctor stories moving References up to below characters or above Notes depending on how you look at it. Also the 'Original print details' (the case change is in keeping with the Manual of Style with regards to headings), this is a sub-heading within the Notes section and the 'Publication with page count and closing captions' is indented rather than bracketed (as when it's included it makes the heading very long, and that info is more suited below the sub-heading. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 15:00, May 29, 2010 (UTC)

Adventures Comic Pages
Just a reminder: the Doctor Who Adventures comic stories category is for the stories themselves, not the objects from the stories. Also, the first occurrence of the object's name in the article should be Bold and at the end of the article add the citation for the story. (Prefix: Whatever the Story's Called) -<Azes13 23:54, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Image issues
I'm guessing you mean the image view that overlays the image over the top of the page you're viewing it on; so the image is in the main view and the page is dimmed behind it?

If so, to get to the page's details, on the bottom right of the image there is a little image that is a page with a magnifine glass, if you mouse over it it'll say "View page details", this'll take you to the image's page. Alternatively you can right click and open the image in a new tab, this'll take you to the image's page also. Hope this helps. --Tangerineduel 13:52, August 14, 2010 (UTC)

Image and illustrator
Added for both Template:Infobox Short Story and Template:Infobox Torchwood Short Story. Both fields are auto-collapsing so they can be added and they'll just collapse if they're not used, see both pages for a copyable template. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:03, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * But you might also find the Template:Infobox Other Comics might be more useful if it's appeared in a Magazine, as with all infoboxes the fields collapse if they're not used. --Tangerineduel 13:51, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Apology
I wanted to apologise for creating the page for this week's DWA, and leaving you a lot of work to fix all my errors. I think I'll refrain from new pages like that from now on =] Hugsforyou 00:40, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Templates and galleries
You can find all the templates (or do you mean infoboxes?), the templates are in the Category:Templates category, and you'll find all the infoboxes in Category:Infoboxes.

There is an infobox for music Template:Infobox Music which does have all the collapsing fields on it.

Also check out the Tardis:Layout guide which also has links out to the infoboxes and layout guides etc.

The galleries issue is one that's been going on for a while since a previous MediaWiki update. You can manipulate how the gallery images are laid out. Take a look at Doctor Who DVD covers/Region 2, all the galleries begin with currently it's 5 covers across in its current layout, change it to 180 and you'll get 4 across (just change it and preview, don't save and you can see the difference). Try it on some of the other pages you're seeing a difference and this should probably help.

As for the 'search this wiki' function and other things like that, yes this wiki and wikia are going through some transitional phrases. But the 'search this wiki' not deleting thing seems to come and go (may be a browser thing), short answer is I don't know for sure. Sorry I couldn't be more help on this front. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 14:22, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

It's the Time Lords!
Well actually the all powerful overseers and whoever else that are in charge at Wikia central. They changed the look, and yes, the sidebar is gone. Just to note, this isn't something I had any say in, but I don't think that it's all that bad.

We now have the marvellous...ummm...top bar. Which has its own unique limitations, you can only have 4 menus, with 7 things within it. Practically though only 3 are usable as the fourth needs to be used for community related stuff.

If you're looking around for stuff that used to be in the sidebar 'what links here' etc, that's in "My Tools" down at the bottom right. You can also add to this menu to get other special pages within it you can get most of the Special:SpecialPages links into the My Tools (you add them by searching by name).

You can find some info on the new look here. Any questions I'll try to answer them. --Tangerineduel 16:18, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

Xmas episode 2010 THE RUMORS
Is it true that there will be a flying shark?

Or a glimpse of Amy and Rory's honeymoon, (Karen Gillan said that on TV)
 * Don't know who posted the above but the teasers are now in full flow. The Brilliant Book 2010 gives some hidden clues!The Librarian 20:22, November 1, 2010 (UTC)

Inuniverse
Make sure your writing in past tense for in-universe articles. Thanks--Skittles the hog 22:31, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

Where it says "Edited by USERNAME Xminutes ago" at the top left, there is an arrow next to it. Click it and a panel will come down. At the bottom it says page history.--Skittles the hog 13:37, November 28, 2010 (UTC)

Merging
Hi...you've actually...kinda made more work than was actually necessary. The process of merging is to copy, paste, delete and then move the articles the merge the histories of the pages not just the content, by just copying the info you're essentially claiming that you've create that content. Page history is king on a wikia, that way we know who's created the content, by just moving some of the content then, when the pages are deleted we loose the original list who created the content. Because of the delete element of the merger process only admins can do a proper merger. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 09:32, December 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's fine, just wanted you to know.
 * All the infoboxes are in the Category:Infoboxes, but the one you're looking for would likely be Template:Infobox Music. --Tangerineduel 10:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fixed that for you, the Music infobox now has both previous/next on it. --Tangerineduel 14:42, December 7, 2010 (UTC)

DWA Format
Okay, I'm being brave now in my continuing efforts to get headlines to adhere to sentence case, and have decided to tackle the biggest offender, Doctor Who Adventures. I know this is your playground, so I need your help.

The problem is much bigger, it seems to me, than just that almost every subhead Uses Capital Letters For Every Word. It's also that there's no rhyme or reason to the order of the subheads.

In general, it seems to me that it goes:


 * Contents
 * Various items within the mag
 * Credits
 * Additional details
 * External link

But this isn't the universal way it's done. In fact, the closest thing to a standard is:


 * Contents
 * Various items (often including credits, which really aren't contents)
 * Hidden Away/Facts
 * Additional details
 * External links

First of all, why is there inconsistency? Why on DWA Issue 193are the credits (properly in my view) not under credits, whereas on DWA Issue 150 is everything under contents?

Second, what is the deal with this Hidden Away/Facts thing? Why is it generally not put under contents? Is it somehow not a part of the contents? What makes it different to, say, the Tales from the TARDIS feature?

In my view, each line should be in the same place on every issue, and I think it should be like the first example I gave above. In other words, the Hidden Away/Facts thing should be brought up under contents.

Next comes the question of what each of these things under content means. Isn't there a way we can shorten some of these subheads? Like, why is it "Information/Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)"? That's a helluva mouthful. Are you saying here that this part of the magazine has had all these names at one point or another? Can't we shorten it to just "Fact file" or something like that? Then, maybe we could write a section in the main Doctor Who Adventures article that defined each of these recurring features. And when we put this new name on the subhead, we could link Doctor Who Adventures. "Tales from the TARDIS" seems the most blatant case. You're telling us in the subhead what the section is. That's not what a subhead is for. You should link to some article which explains what the feature was, or, better, you should write a line or two of text under the subhead to explain it.

The thing I'm finding is that these DWA articles are a little inscrutable because the subheads don't at all add to one's understanding of the magazine. I mean, when I see "The Doctor's Data (Collectible Fact File)", that doesn't mean a damned thing to me, and nothing in the article describes it to me. How is that different from the fact file at point 1.2? I don't know, and none of these articles tell me. What the hell is a fact file in the first place? You see what I'm getting at?

I can probably use the bot, in most cases, to quickly establish a more robust, comprehensible format on these pages, but I do need you to help explain these sections and give me good titles for the subheads. Subheads shouldn't contain parenthetical expressions, should probably have only the first word capitalized, and should either be followed immediately by text explaining what the item is, or they should be linked back to an appropriate section of the main DWA article.

Can you help?  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  01:00, December 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your detailed response. I'll respond to it in a few.  But I wanted to quickly say, don't make any manual changes to headers just yet, as any radical changes on just a few issues now will make it harder for the bot to make quick changes later.  My whole point in bringing up these issues is to try to get you, as the person who's likely done the most editing on this series, to try to develop a common framework for each issue, so that the bot (CzechBot) can quickly edit all 220+ issues.  So for the moment, don't make any changes to the articles.   Let's just work on figuring out an appropriate format for each page.  Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  21:13, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

Past tense please
Past tense please. Also the source should be right at the end of the text not further down the page. Good work on the DWAs.--Skittles the hog 20:08, December 23, 2010 (UTC)

DWMS
This isn't my complete answer, as I'm fairly sure there's an advertisement somewhere in my files to back this up, but:

Off the top of my head, I think you'll find that the indicia to at least the Summer and Winter 83 editions call the publication, Doctor Who Monthly, which indicates they're legally indivisible from the main magazine. There's also something kicking around in my mind about the fact that the transfer from a monthly magazine to a 4-weekly magazine meant that subscribers were suddenly getting 13 regular issues a year, instead of 12, and therefore the specials were then withdrawn as a natural part of the subscription. I'll try to get you more solid stuff, and cite it more properly in the article, but I'm right in the midst of a lil project of my own at the moment.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  16:00, December 31, 2010 (UTC)