User:NateBumber

Hi! I'm Nate, and I'm a nerd who wears many hats: moderator of the r/doctorwho and r/gallifrey communities; admin of the Faction Paradox and Obverse wikis; and occasional Faction Paradox short story writer for Obverse Books. 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 am aware of T:NPA, and I 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 earliest opportunity.

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Things I'd currently like changed on the wiki
Big thanks to all the admins who have helped with things on this list!

Renames

 * The War should be renamed War in Heaven for multiple reasons detailed on the talk page (as already approved by Revan).
 * The Remote should be renamed Remote for the same reason that Time Lord isn't The Time Lords.
 * Salyavin should be renamed Chronotis, per Talk:Salyavin.
 * Capitol should be renamed The Capitol, since it's (obviously) not the only Capitol in the Doctor Who universe.
 * Lord President should be renamed President of the High Council in parallel to President of the United States and President of Earth etc, to preserve gender neutrality; Lord Chancellor should be renamed High Chancellor and Lord Cardinal should be renamed Cardinal for similar reasons.

Speedy renames

 * The Story of the Peace (short story) should be renamed A Story of the Peace (short story), since that's what it's actually called in the book.
 * House of Seven Gables should be renamed House of the Seven Gables because that's what it's actually called.
 * House Medhorran should be renamed House Meddhoran because that's what it's actually called.
 * Castellan Fordfarding should be renamed Fordfarding, per T:HONOUR.
 * Ming the Merciless should be renamed Ming (Transit), to avoid confusion with (who was mentioned in The Book of the War).
 * There's a ton of character pages with generic-description titles that need episode dab terms: Cowled figure; Woman police constable; Woman in shop; Kid in arcade; Snooker player; Young policeman; Custody sergeant; Scene-of-crime officer

Mergers

 * Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures should be merged into Virgin New Adventures: see this talk page, this thread, and this sandbox page.
 * Per this decision,
 * EITHER Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) should be merged into Interference (novel) (cf my sandbox),
 * OR Human Resources (audio story) should be split up into Human Resources - Part One (audio story) and Human Resources - Part Two (audio story) (cf the talk page).

Policy

 * I really support the main ideas of Thread:231309 (in particular, see my thoughts at Thread:231746), and I believe a majority of editors on this wiki do, as well. (See also Amorkuz's comments here.)
 * I think our wiki would benefit from the implementation of a (novel series) dab term to parallel the (audio series) term in use on the pages Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series), The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series), and elsewhere. Virgin New Adventures would become New Adventures (novel series), BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures would become Eighth Doctor Adventures (novel series), etc.
 * Per this decision,
 * EITHER Mickey Smith's mother should be renamed Odessa Smith, Radio operator (The Sea Devils) should be renamed Sharps, and Pilot (The Horns of Nimon) should be renamed Sekkoth,
 * OR Edward Wright should be renamed Polly Wright's father, Tabetha Pond should be renamed Amy Pond's mother, and Crane should be renamed Nurse (The Curse of Fenric).
 * Especially with the release of the first NuWho novelisations, it's about time that we stop hiding behind arbitrary, selectively-enforced notability requirements and actually implement T:NPOV by giving novelisations full validity as a source for page names. See Thread:231243 and Thread:232143. A list of pages that could be renamed in light of this can be found at my old sandbox.
 * This is really tiny, but I think the wiki has criminally underused its "/" capability, and I rather wish the precedent of TV Comic/Covers had been followed for BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures covers etc.
 * Under current policy, not only can a person be punished for observing that a consensus has emerged in a forum thread, they're not allowed to even notice that threads can go months or years without an admin ruling. This sort of pseudo-Orwellian "I know it's true, and you know it's true, but neither of us are allowed to say it" is profoundly silly and completely antithetical to productive debate.