Forum:Doctor Who Adventures (Magazine)

Hi, I've been working on the BBC's Doctor Who Adventures title recently as a route to getting some of the Tenth Doctor's comic strip adventures covered. And I came across another page (well I did look at it first to be honest!), and I thought I should just explain why I didn't use the existing Doctor Who Adventures page, in favour of Doctor Who Adventures (Magazine) before anyone asks. Quite simply, although the printed title is Doctor Who Adventures, it is referred to in articles and interviews as Doctor Who Adventures magazine. In various contexts the term "Doctor Who adventures", could be ambiguous, and "magazine" (because the title isn't a comic), could be confused with Panini's Doctor Who Magazine. With the title only now, having gone weekly, there was the possibility of it being called Doctor Who Weekly, but as that title has already been used, Doctor Who Adventures Weekly, could have been another possibility. As the abbreviation DWA already exists for Doctor Who Annual, I took the decision to add M, so that the abbreviation DWAM could be used with specific reference to the BBC title, but dropped the M for specific issue coverage. Hope its not muddled thinking. Any comments? The Librarian 00:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Consistency and stuff making sense should be at the core of all of this.
 * So as to abbreviations it should make sense, both within the individual articles (and their names) and within the wider scope.
 * So DWA should either mean Doctor Who Annuals or Doctor Who Adventures, but it shouldn't be that half the time as with DWA Issue 1 and then DWAM.


 * So in order to make this make sense all the DWA Issues articles would need to me changed to DWAM Issue X etc. The alternative would be to change the prefix DWA for Doctor Who Annuals to be something else (though I can't really think of a different logical prefix for Doctor Who Annuals).
 * This would also (with regards to DWAM) make it fall into line with DWM (the M being for magazine) so both magazines would have M in the abbreviations and the prefix. --Tangerineduel 02:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Who annuals are rarly mentioned so perhaps their abbreviantion should be DWAN Doctor Who An(nual).

Are we agreed then that the word 'Magazine' should be incorporated into the title (somewhere) for the 'Doctor Who Adventures' title, or just to reference the title as a whole, not the individual issues? I'm happy to do the re-edits but Annuals wouldn't normally be referrred to in their individual titles as 'Issue 1' etc.would they? The Doctor Who Adventures (Magazine) main page provides the individual issue links as DWA, and at this stage there are few other links within the site to individual issues, if thats worth considering. More comment needed.
 * Annuals could possibly be DWAY (Doctor Who Annuals and Yearbooks) to incorporate the other annual title of the storybook! Just a thought. The Librarian 21:04, 4 February 2008 (UTC)