User talk:LostRaccoon

Recent additions / edits
Thank you for your recent additions, brilliant detail. Just a note all in-universe articles are written from a past tense point of view. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 14:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

By way of apology . ..
I see you left a note directed at me at Talk:2009 Specials (Doctor Who). I apologize it's taken so log for me to respond, but I don't spend a lot of time at pages about future events, mainly because I don't want to be spoiled on things. I also note that you stopped editing at TARDIS soon after those comments. I apologize if my edit was in any way responsible for your apparent departure.

That edit was six months ago, so I don't remember the exact details, but I still feel obliged to try to answer your question. As I recall, I happened across the page merely because I was trying to make sure the linkages from Series 4 worked. What struck me instantly was that there was a comment about David Tennant's future with the show, right in the lead. At the time, as I recall, Tennant had not made any official announcement about his future. Since the page was ostensibly about this 2009 "season", and he was on record as having been signed for those specials, any information about a period of time beyond 2009 was a) premature and b) beside the point of the article. I didn't completely delete the statement, but rather moved it to the talk page, because I reckoned that it could possibly be relevant to a then-unmade Series 6 article.

On my last edit of the article on 19 October, it didn't have any whiff of rumor about casting the Doctor. THe only rumors it had were well-sourced ones about people who might actually appear in the specials. But between that edit and your last question on the Talk page — dated 31 October — Tennant's resignation was announced. While I didn't go back to the article, I can imagine that it must've been substantially changed with a lot of rumors about Tennant's replacement. These "future" articles always attract a lot of noise when "big" events happen, even if none of it is strictly related to the topic at hand. I'm not sure why that is, but people can't seem to control themselves. They want to be the first to put down a piece of news, even if they put it in the wrong place entirely.

At any rate, I'm sorry if I contributed in any way to your departure. I wasn't trying to create a double standard that made it hard for you to see how to proceed. I was only trying to take a then-sloppy article and give it some kind of structure. At the end of the day, none of can really control this beast of a wiki. All we can do is visit a page, clean it up the best way we know how, and hope that we've left behind a skeleton that people will build on. Unfortunately the article probably just reverted to its old ways as the rumor mill kicked into high gear. That doesn't make it right. I still stand by my comments on the talk page to which you responded oh so long ago.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  10:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC) 19:10: Tue 20 Dec 2011