User talk:CzechOut

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Page swapping
Looks like User:Cyruptsaram hit a snag while attempting to disambiguate people called Rob. The "vanilla" Rob should be on Rob (The Chromosome Connection), while Rob (Disambiguation) should be the "normal" location of Rob with all the links changed. Maybe you could explain to him about how you do that sort of thing. -- Tybort (talk page) 21:27, September 1, 2012 (UTC)

Documentary categorization
Yes, I saw how you changed From Avalon to Argolis and tried to do the same with my next edit. I'm still trying to get the hang of categories, there are just so many. Sorry for the trouble! Shambala108 ☎  03:34, September 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Good to know about the documentary tutorial, I will be watching for it. And thanks for fixing my talk page, it's been bugging me for months, but I didn't know how to fix it. Shambala108 ☎  03:44, September 4, 2012 (UTC)

Spotlight Request
Hi. Tardis looks great and I have added it to the approved spotlight list. I'm not sure what is up with the categories on some of those pages that are still being listed as uncategorized...; have you reported it to Special:contact?? Somebody else may have seen it somewhere. -- Wendy (talk ) 04:23, September 5, 2012 (UTC)

Message received and understood
Hi CzechOut, still havent sorted out message alerts from you - good job I czech daily  Anyway been working back on some old issues so not much new added at the mo BUT...you'll be pleased to know Im being attentive to image sizes - still got a problem with some comic captures where I only have one decent bubbled pic to choose from but hey, I'm trying. On the date matter - well that makes more sense. Thats how (in my very early days) I started doing them but someone went behind me and split it all up into parts hmmmmm so thats why its been done as it is - sorry was. Consider my templates ammended. Just let me know if you spot me misbehaving again - Im sure you will! BTW glad to see the link to latest news restored on the home page. The Librarian  ☎  21:15, September 5, 2012 (UTC)

Edit box issue
Have you run into this problem? It's something that's been plaguing me for a while, but didn't really get in the way of me editing. Basically I can't click the text anywhere around the custom preload pagename box. Scrolling beyond it works and on really short articles I just push the text down to edit it and then bring it back up once I've finished. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 04:39, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

BACK!
I'm back! 09:43, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

changing publication to anthology
All I'm doing is deleting the word "publication" in the infobox and replacing it with "anthology", that's the only pattern. I think I've done the first twenty or so Short Trips anthologies, but it's a pretty tedious job so if it can be done by the bot I could do something more fun.

Before I started this, I searched several places looking for a reference to put in the edit summary, but couldn't find any; I should have asked you in the first place. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  03:34, September 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I was doing them in anthology order, story order, and left off at For the Man Who Has Everything (short story), which is followed by Tell Me You Love Me (short story) and The Cutty Wren (short story). These are all in the anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas. Shambala108 ☎  03:57, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

Signature
Thanks for your advise, I might give it a try. Cyruptsaram ☎  08:34, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

Ok I know I can be stupid but....
Hi CzechOut, RE: the message alerts lol - luv the bat-signal analogy btw. I've got that part! :)

I'm getting the wiki alerts and invites, I'm getting the Game of Rassilon scores, I'm getting ALL that. What I'm NOT getting is alerts to messages left on my talk page - in a bat-signal style blue balloon, or as a notification in the top line of the screen (like appeared in the wiki test you did on muppetwiki) ...but its workable I check more regularly now when I log in and intermitantly. The Librarian ☎  21:59, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

I'm getting 1-4 but NOT 5 (and I know what it now looks like cos I've seen it on muppetwiki :) The Librarian ☎  23:11, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

Video and novelisations queries
Hi ...on a different topic entirely... as well as being busy rescanning some cover pics for a mammoth day uploading (often smaller but also some larger scans), at <100kb, I was wondering ... which is better galleries or tables? The reason is, I'm looking too add more to the 'Home video and audio releases' section of story pages, which would incidently include the DWDVDF releases. IF tables were preferred would there be a problem with a gradual change over?


 * ok showing stupidity again!! Just been exploring the side tabs! Doah! but can you direct me to how to create a related image page. Thanks. The Librarian ☎  01:16, September 9, 2012 (UTC)

AND ... I seem to have missed the discussion to remove novelisation details/links from story listing pages :( ...even though script books have been retained -even if they are a script not necessarily what was broadcast). Put a lot of work (and still not yet complete), into Target Books even if they are now BBC and was wondering...! The Librarian ☎  00:39, September 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * likewise just found the very discreet link at the top of the info box. Is it the plan to have a separate commercial releases page for each story that would encompass cassettes, VHS's, DVDs, audio soundtracks, recordings and readings?The Librarian ☎  01:16, September 9, 2012 (UTC)

Change "DVD, video and audio releases" and "Home video and audio releases"
When you've got a spare moment, could you do a bot run on these two and change them to "Home media releases"?

I think with 55+ stories on iTunes and as you've noted on the forums how people view what "video" means, I think Media might be a better catch all term. --Tangerineduel / talk 06:44, September 9, 2012 (UTC)

Redirect
The protected page for The Dalek Project should have a (comic story) on the end. It SAYS (comic story), but that's a quirk of TitleComic, it's not actually on that page. -- Tybort (talk page) 20:33, September 10, 2012 (UTC)

Table headers unreadable
The table headers on Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories are white on near-white, which makes them well-nigh invisible & certainly unreadable. The exception is "Released". I assume this is a side effect of allowing sorting on the other columns. Whatever the cause, the colours need to be changed.

Note that the header background briefly shows as blue (sensible) when I first navigate to the page but is replaced by near-white within a second or less.

There may be other tables elsewhere afflicted by the same problem. I've not tried to look for any, so I don't know. --89.240.248.92talk to me 02:23, September 11, 2012 (UTC)

Phew - thats sorted then..
Hi, I'm sorry if there was any misunderstanding. I've only ever raised the issue of not getting no.5 alerts and thats because I was a bit 'slow' into replying (ie taking note) of some comments (especially if they were threads), 'cos I wasn't made aware they had been posted. Now I know its my fault I'll try harder - heavens knows how you keep on top of things! :) The Librarian ☎  02:35, September 11, 2012 (UTC)

Graphic polocy
out of curiousity, what is our policy on graphic content exactly? I saw here you call the wiki "NSFW", but where do we stop? I mean there are many Doctor Who sorces with huge nudity involved, Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough being the best example, what is our policy on that? (I do not actually want to add any pictures like that really, I am just curious) OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 22:17, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Establishing Interface with Tardis
Out of curiosity, how did you add the Tardis Image to the edit load? Ricky Spanish ☎  00:38, September 15, 2012 (UTC)

Badge bug
Is it just me, or has everyone else's badges been replaced with my own? Or is it possible that people have chosen not to display their earned badges and so it's just showing me mine, or is this an actual error of some kind? Memnarc ☎  03:55, September 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Woah! He's right! It's doing it to me too! OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 04:12, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Prefixes
You know, if you're going to be universalising the source prefixes, you might want to make a modification or two to the prefix header, since its image consists of all of the now-obsolete DW, SJA, TW, MA, etc. prefixes.

Just occurred to me. Dr. Anonymous1 ☎  13:07, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Issue with changing prefixes
Not all PROSEs are PROSE, as per your bot correction. After about 2010, they became audio stories, once Big Finish stopped producing Doctor Who literature. -- Tybort (talk page) 15:41, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

I must admit, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to editing on here (and any other wiki, for that matter) and I've been having a bit of trouble editing the homepage. I want to change the most recent Torchwood novel and DWM comic to 'Exodus Code' and 'The Broken Man' respectively (unless of course we're not supposed to add a comic until the story is actually complete, in which case it would be 'The Cornucopia Caper'). Anyway, when I click the edit button, I'm presented with an incredibly unhelpful display which doesn't actually let me change the contents of the page.

Having trouble editing the home page
Hello. I must admit I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to editing a wiki, and I've been having a bit of trouble editing the home page. I want to change the most recent Torchwood novel and DWM comic to 'Exodus Code' and The Broken Man' respectively (unless I'm not supposed to add a comic until the story is actually complete, in which case that would be 'The Cornucopia Caper'). Anyway, when I click the edit button, I'm presented with an incredibly unhelpful screen in which I can't actually change the contents of the page. Might you be able to help? (sorry if I cause any trouble) ScotchAutopilot ☎  19:19, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

documentary page
Hi! I was creating some documentary pages for The War Games and came across a problem. One of the documentaries is called Talking About Regeneration, and when I tried to create it, it was blocked by the spam filter, apparently triggered by the words "Talking About." Is this something that can be fixed? Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  01:45, September 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, I'll get onto that in the next day or so. Shambala108 ☎  03:28, October 2, 2012 (UTC)

Spell Bot
Hi. Thanks for your help on the forum. Is there any way to run the bot only for content pages (pages excluding redirects, talkpages and all..)? 05:46, September 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanx for the help. 06:41, September 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. The spellbot worked really great. I am doing another text replacement now. I was wondering if there is a way to add an infobox as an exception? 01:03, September 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah the spellbot worked really great but for some reason it was changing Sabre to Ssabre....not a big issue though.
 * As for the infobox: I think I would soon need to change a character's name to something like, "....., under the guise of ....." but I don't want to change it in infoboxes. The discussion about the change is going on and I might not even require to change it but still, asking you in advance. 05:21, September 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * Bumping in.... Just incase you missed it. 17:21, September 27, 2012 (UTC)

Master images
That's too bad. Can you link me to the particular forum? I'd like to know the reasoning behind removing the infoboxes, even if I can't affect the change now.

As a side note, I would like to contribute to forum discussions more, but I find them so difficult to navigate. Memnarc ☎  02:58, September 18, 2012 (UTC)

Ok just got your latest..
Gotta dash just seen your latest ....bound to be questions - and sorry for killing you :( The Librarian ☎  13:43, September 19, 2012 (UTC)

Related videos module
Hi there, I noticed the module is blank here now. Are you no longer interested in the module? We still have a lot of great content that I think would go well with the wiki. Please let me know! --Sarah (help forum | blog) 00:26, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

Bablecolor
I've discovered that Babelcolour worked with the BBC in 2005 on a special feature entitled The Dalek Tapes for Genesis of the Daleks. I wanted to create his page, given that he did work with the BBC, but you blocked it's creation, given that at the time we knew of no corrilation between him and the bbc. Could you please unblock it? OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 09:56, September 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * He also is apparently working with them on the official BBC coloration of The Mind of Evil, as well as other projects from the Restoration team... OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 10:02, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, when I noticed the page was now create-able, I presumed you had unlocked it as a sort of "Go on..." motion... I'll look at Geneses later. 139.55.31.58talk to me 17:14, September 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, when I first created the page I saw a message that said "This has been blocked from creation" and a note that said something like "A page shouldn't exist for Babelcolour until he has worked with the BBC officially, no matter how much we like his (copy-right violating) videos. -Czechout. Don't why it wont show up anymore. I'm going to go get that snapshot for you. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 18:08, September 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * There. Still from the credits of The Dalek Tapes documentary. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 18:17, September 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this enough? OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 18:47, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
212.219.231.252 has been adding a lot of pretty nasty vandalism to pages. -- Tybort (talk page) 12:28, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

New nav bar
Saw Wikia's announcement. I now leave these sorts of things up to you. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:37, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

Edit Problems
Nothing I edit is showing up in my Game if Rassilon page, despite the edits having registered. I've been trying to update the list of Character Options figures, and it says the site is having technical difficulties. Cult Of Skaro ☎  18:25, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Czech! Thank you for your comment about my sig. Since I've just now read it, I haven't changed it yet, but I will soon. Also, I added a bit on the Jaguar (animal) talk page, but I'm not comfortable editing an actual article except for spelling and grammar yet. Hopefully, I'll feel educated enough soon to try. I've still got to read all the "how to" articles. Thanks again! :) Jay JLOM Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out - John Wooden 02:48, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Blogs and prefixes
I'd not even thought about the blogs and what that might mean for the prefix switch over. I did read the community update, so knew you were doing something with/to the blogs.

There's not anyway to get a list of the non-bot run articles is there? So we've got a list of articles we have to manually check? Anyway, they'll all be found and fixed eventually. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. --Tangerineduel / talk 04:36, September 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Righty. Thought I'd offer. I'm glad of the potential short list of pages. It's not like I miss the days where I'd do a series of 1000 page edits over a day or three. --Tangerineduel / talk 07:50, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

I saw this page on the activity feed and thought I'd drop by and ask how I should create a blog here. Then I saw that there's a huge makeover having to do with blogs, so instead I'll edit a page about it. But I'd love to know the proper way to write a blog here. Thank you. Jay JLOM Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out - John Wooden 08:58, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm guessing that contemplations and speculations on talk pages are considered spoilers? Oswin Oswald is our topic of conversations on a separate wiki. I'd love to banter with other users here, but not if it violates the "anti-spoiler" rules. My friend has even drawn some beautiful artwork from our speculations. :) Jay JLOM Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out - John Wooden 09:18, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Thank you VERY much for telling me about speculation/spoilers and The Howling. Question: What is "the howling" referring to? Or is it explained on the intro page? :) Jay JLOM Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out - John Wooden 08:00, September 23, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki-navigation
Was going to edit this for myself, but, as you're still messing around with it. Link to the Tardis:Help page. --Tangerineduel / talk 06:42, September 24, 2012 (UTC)

Greetings, my wingless friend! I've noticed rather an irritating problem: whenever I view someone else's page, I'm shown their rank in the Game of Rassilon and how many points they have, but for some reason I'm only shown a list of my badges, not theirs. Sorry to bother you, but I felt you might like to know, as it may be a glitch of some sort. Graske of the mandragora ☎  15:36, September 24, 2012 (UTC)

Nav Assistance
Hey there CzechOut!

My name is Jorge and I am on Wikia's Community Development team (and a Dr. Who fine besides I might add). I was sent a notice that you would like some help getting the TARDIS ready for expanded nav implementation in October. Looking at the testwiki and this one, I realize you may have actually figured out a solution already. However, if you still want some assistance, let me know by leaving me a message on my talk page. I'd love to help out any way I can!

Best, Jorge (profile)•(talk) 17:55, September 24, 2012 (UTC)

Robot 1 and Robot 2
Robot 1 and Robot 2 still have the DW prefix in there. Did this have something to do with the undoing of the articles' merger? -- Tybort (talk page) 18:13, September 25, 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Got your messages, replied on my talk page. Thanks! Ooh, and I get some Rassilon points. :) --Ebyabe ☎  17:16, September 27, 2012 (UTC)

Image Licencing
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm glad you didn't just delete all the previously uploaded pictures.

Blog Posts
This is probably a stupid question, but I can't figure out how to make a blog post. I looked at the sidebar, and despite what the badge says, there is no button to start one. Cult Of Skaro ☎  17:26, September 28, 2012 (UTC)

In that case, why is there a badge that requires you to make a blog post?

Thanks, will remember in the future. Cult Of Skaro ☎  17:54, September 28, 2012 (UTC)

T:SPELL and files
Do we really need to maintain redirects for files? Files aren't usually things that are searched for, nor are they usually mis-typed the same way that articles are. Files have a different usage path I'd have thought, you usually upload or look at a file before using it. And as it says in the Help:Namespace "the rule doesn't apply here so it's not "wrong".". --Tangerineduel / talk 16:49, September 29, 2012 (UTC)

Craaaaaaaaaaaazy Dismag idea...
Why isn't Doctor Who (1996) titled Doctor Who (TV story)? I know we've had that name for a while, but... I think it's time for a change. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 22:17, September 29, 2012 (UTC)

T:SPELL & Sky Smith
I noticed an edit to the article Sky Smith by User:CzechBot at 16:04, September 29, 2012, commented "Enforcing T:SPELL". That edit changed "enrolled" to "enroled" -- that is, it changed the correct British spelling to an incorrect spelling, which appears to be the opposite of what it set out to do.

I've not looked for any other instances where this has happened but, since the username suggests an automated process, there may well be others.

Please note: My IP address changes frequently, so there's no point leaving a response on my User talk page -- it won't be mine for more than an hour or two. --78.146.184.166talk to me 21:55, October 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Any chance you could actually create a user account? It'd be very helpful to actually carry on a conversation with you.  I'm not sure where to respond to you, so I guess I'll just go here, but I really don't like carrying on conversations entirely on my user page.


 * The bot process is not completely automated, but, yeah, this was a bit of a mistake. Enroll is one of those tricky things that's spelled differently on both sides of the Atlantic, except in participles. So enrol, enrols, enrolment, but not enroled, or enroling'. I went a little broad with the programming, but thanks to your pointing out the error, the programming has been tightened up. I don't think there are too many other flat out errors with the bot, but if they exist, they're going to be in this sort of -ll madness.   00:29: Tue 02 Oct 2012
 * That's correct, it should be enrolled. Confirmed by the Oxford English Dictionary. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/enrol (Note: your reply wasn't there when I originally typed that, I was hit by an edit conflict) I reverted the bot's edit.
 * This is one of the few cases where I'd say that reverting an error may be unhelpful. When you revert SpellBot errors, you make it harder for me to teach the bot what to do.  Also, please never change a bot error on the basis of your interpretation of a single dictionary. For the long term benefit of the wiki, I need to be informed of what you think is an error, and then I need to make a determination as to whether it really is an error.  There are many cases where one BrEng dictionary is in disagreement with another (travelling is a good example, as some BrEng dictionaries accept traveling as okay, whereas others don't).  00:46: Tue 02 Oct 2012
 * Ah, sorry. I just thought "spelling mistake, correct it". By the way, I think it's effecting 'rr as well as 'll words, for example, "referred". I just came across "refered" on the A Town Called Mercy page, which my browser's spellchecker is reporting as a spelling mistake. I don't know if the bot altered it or it was spelt that way in the first place, but it should be "referred" (I double checked with a Google search, which offered the same correction), so I changed that one too, before reading the above comment.
 * Nah, there are no significant differences in -rr words. SpellBot doesn't come anywhere close to the word refer. That was just a plain, old typo.  SpellBot doesn't correct all spelling errors — just Americanisms. And I should stress that there's not generally a problem with -ll words.  This is only a problem with that small percentage that go with -ll in participle form.  Of these, I'm only aware of the error with enrol. Others, like appal and enthral are fine.  That's not to say that all the bugs have been squashed, but SpellBot is largely effective and doesn't generally have an "-ll problem".  01:12: Tue 02 Oct 2012

From your response to Digifiend, I'm glad I spotted that it might be (& I now know it was) an automated process & didn't just correct that one error.

As for creating an account: I tend not to join things or sign up for things uless I really have to. I might (if I can find time) fill out the article on Dæmos Rising. (I have the DVD & have watched it, which nobody else seems to have done). If so, I'll probably register before I update the thing, so I don't end up looking like a dozen different users instead of just one. Otherwise, I expect I'll continue to lurk & only make my presence known when I feel like it -- a bit like the Doctor, except my face (IP address) changes more often than his. (I was 78, earlier) --2.96.26.113talk to me 14:01, October 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, in truth, it's a semi-automated process. I do have to approve each change manually and I just let this one get by me. Thanks for catching it and improving SpellBot!  14:43: Tue 02 Oct 2012

October 3rd Wiki Changes
As I'm sure you're aware, this new "improvement" chops off the right side of our pages. I'm hoping you're tech savvy enough to fix this, since Wikia Central won't be changing back, apparently. I have zero skills on computer programming. Thank you. Jay JLOM Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out - John Wooden 13:09, October 3, 2012 (UTC)