User talk:ComicBookGoddess

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Reference categories
Hiya :) Thanks for joining us! :) I'm not really clear on what you mean by "categories for references in the TV episodes". Could you please elaborate? Oh, and as you're new here, please don't "put a little bit of organisation in" without making your ideas known at Board:The Panopticon or by talking with me directly. Our wiki has one of the most well-developed category trees on Wikia, so you might inadvertently duplicate an existing structure if you move without seeking guidance first.

Though I don't fully understand your categorical idea, please be aware too that categories which focus on a single medium, like television, are usually swiftly deleted, as this goes against our founding principle that all media are to be treated as equally valid. 14:30: Sun 17 Feb 2013

Display issues
Please post your screenshots on my talk page. Thanks :) 04:00: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * I'm gonna respond to your pictures one by one, as I study them.


 * The issue at Carnival of Monsters isn't really a technical problem, per se. Everything is working as it should, but it still results in an apparent error.  This is solved by simply writing a bit more text into any section which appears above the bottom of the infobox. Your picture has been cropped so that you can't see the issue, but basically the first line of text is been "squashed" between the bottom of the infobox and the top of the picture capped "A small problem".


 * Solutions are to move the picture down a paragraph or to add more text above it. Both are really simple fixes, not requiring administrative help.  (The former is typically preferred, as it's really important to draw readers into the article with a nice, juicy lead.)  05:25: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * I have just fixed a tiny error in coding which wasn't causing issues in any of the major desktop browsers. I don't have an iPad, and Safari for iPhone wasn't registering a problem with .  Please take another iPad screenshot of T:TABLES to see if the matter has been resolved.  05:29: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * The third of your issues is obscure to me. You say you don't see what the button under preview says, but in your pic, i can read everything.  Can you please clarify what it is you can't see?   05:31: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * If, however, you're saying that you can't see what happens when you press the area to the immediate right of the word "preview", don't worry. No one can on any platform.  This is indeed due to local CSS, so nominally it's "my fault", but, honestly, it's a useless feature.  what the button is supposed to be saying is "show changes".  But honestly, if you don't know what your own changes are, it might be time for you to take a break from editing. This is on the list of repairs, but it's way down low.   05:36: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * It's actually impossible for you to be still displaying "the exact same issue". Try refreshing the page several tiems to see if things don't get cleared out.  And, yeah, I do need screenshots, because I don't have an iPad, and no other browser I have to hand, including iPhone, is showing what you're showing.   05:57: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * Okay, well, it has changed, but the problem isn't fixed. Any chance of getting a screen shot of the entire Tardis manual box? I'm not seeing anything on this upper half that's to blame for this odd warping.  Something lower down is possibly to blame.  Also, is it behaving exactly same on this page as it is on T:TABLES?  07:06: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * Okay, I'm able to reproduce the error in Xcode simulators of iPad. Probably don't need the screenshots from you.  I have no idea what's causing that, nor why it does not show up in iPhone version of iOS.  I'm gonna have to do some research.  I apologise for this inconvenience, but I can't give an ETA for repairs at this time.  07:20: Tue 19 Feb 2013
 * .....and fixed. Turned out to be a difference in the way that iOS renders the input box.  If you look at the width on a desktop browser versus iOS, you'll see that the search bar at top is wider in iOS than normal browsers.  That's a weird bug. Thanks for pointing it out.   07:55: Tue 19 Feb 2013

So this is what I'm seeing in iOS emulation (and on an iPhone). Can you please confirm that this is basically what you're seeing on your iPad? Thanks. 17:40: Tue 19 Feb 2013


 * I remeber seeing some of these issues on my iPad. I mainly have grown to ignore them, although the page going all flashly can be a nuisance. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 18:25, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

Jack's sexuality
Sounds fine to me. He is, I agree, omnisexual, same as John Hart. The only reason Owen thinks he's gay is because he'd had relations with him already (as is clearly hinted at in the dialogue). Jack is demonstrably at least bisexual, as he's flirted with women multiple times on Who and seems attracted to Gwen from the start. "Believes" sounds fine. --SOTO ☎ 04:15, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

RE:Hypovolemic shock
Okay. I thought they were similar enough to include them together, but I'll leave it in your seemingly capable hands. By the way, you don't really need to tell me; you can just change it and explain yourself in the edit summary. Then, if I disagree, I might contact you, or vice versa. --SOTO ☎ 07:33, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Girl in Fireplace edits
All I did was replace the templates that had since been renamed: TitleTV was renamed Title dab away, Infobox NewTV was renamed Infobox Story, and Bp was renamed Il. Doug86 ☎  23:38, February 26, 2013 (UTC)

DPL issue
I close any issue that I can't replicate, because that means that issue has to do with the individual user. There are no problems with DPL at this time, but it's certainly possible you're still seeing an echo of past problems. I recommend that you go to Tardis:Help and then follow whichever of these instructions are applicable to your browser:

IF that fails to eliminate the problem, restart your computer completely and then return to the page.

If you still have a problem at that point, please send me a screenshot of your current state. 05:59: Fri 08 Mar 2013
 * By the way, when I say restart the computer, I mean completely turn off your computer, don't just perform a simple restart. Shut 'er down to the point you have to actually hit the power button to get a restart.  06:01: Fri 08 Mar 2013
 * Odd. Please go to another page which uses DPL where you have never been before — Z-Cars is likely such a page, or Forum:Panopticon archives — and then report on any DPL errors you see there.


 * Also, by way of clarification, when you say you just hit the power button, did you do so after a proper shut down, or did you just hit the power button? 06:30: Fri 08 Mar 2013
 * Well, since you said you were having problems in iOS, too, I checked that. And it's workin' fine there.  I think we need to move on to getting a screenshot of Special:Version.  The error code you're receiving essentially means that DPL is not installed.  Special:Version will confirm this.  I want you to go to the area labelled "parser extension tags" and take a screenshot of that.  Also, let's go to the "parser hooks" area, and take a screenshot of everything from the section header to the extension called "ImageMap".   06:45: Fri 08 Mar 2013
 * Okay, this is indeed an odd situation, but we can work through it if we collect some more data. At least we know now for sure what the problem is.  For some reason your browser is not reading that the site has DPL installed.  The first thing I need is something I asked for before, but you probably missed in your fatigue:
 * I want you to go to the area labelled "parser extension tags" and take a screenshot of that.
 * After that, I need for you to go back to all the images you've put on my talk page and add to the caption the precise version number of the browser that you used to take these images. I also need the precise, long-form number (that is, more than just "Windows 7, but Windows 7.xxxxxxx) of your OS.   19:28: Sat 09 Mar 2013
 * Okay, thanks for that. Now we need to move on to a couple of other things.
 * Please click here and copy and paste the results onto my talk page.
 * Please go to memoryalpha:User:CzechOut/Sandbox and take a screenshot with each of your devices.
 * Please indicate the time zone and country from which you primarily edit with these devices.
 * Thanks :) 21:20: Sat 09 Mar 2013
 * In the answering of point 2, above, please make sure to post those screenshots on my talk page, putting the browser version number in the caption. (By the way, this is just about the end of the data collection/screenshot taking for you.  We're almost at the end.)
 * Oh, I just thought of something else. Do you ever use your iPad on cellular data?  That is, are all of these screenshots of you using your iPad through the same router as your Windows machines?  If you can get a shot of Tardis:Help — while connected through your cellular provider — that would make for an interesting comparison.  21:28: Sat 09 Mar 2013
 * Wow. That's crazy.  So DPL works in wikiamobile, but not in wikia.  That's beyond odd.  Do me a favour to confirm this crazy behaviour.  Click here, open the "Policies, guidelines and information for contributors section" and take a screenshot — from Chrome on your Windows machine.  22:00: Sat 09 Mar 2013
 * Okay, this just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. I notice in the Memory Alpha screen shot that you are not logged in there. So I need two more screenshots.  It'll do to be in Chrome, in Windows.  I need:
 * a shot of memoryalpha:user:CzechOut/Sandbox when you are logged in as user:.
 * a shot of tardis:help when you're logged out.
 * The thing this will demonstrate is a relationship between the phenomenon you're experiencing and your account. It is possible to have account-specific problems, as my own account has a particular bug against which I have to take a unique inoculation.  23:23: Sat 09 Mar 2013
 * Okay, at this point, I'm revoking my earlier statement that we're almost at the end of screenshots. We're probably not, because this keeps getting weirder. Now I need you to check the thing in yet another skin.  Again using Chrome Windows, please click the following link and take a screenshot of the "help pages" section: http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=Tardis%3AHelp&useskin=monobook  23:38: Sat 09 Mar 2013 23:38, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
 * Wait a sec. Your "logged out" image of Tardis:Help is immediately after logging out.  I'm not sure I trust that.  It might not make any difference, but please go back to Tardis:Help, log out, re-load the page after logging out while holding down  , and  then take the picture. In other words, I want the cache cleared after you've logged out.  23:43: Sat 09 Mar 2013

Okay, thanks for all that. It appears that we can now have a strong indicator that:
 * it does not affect my account in any way, with any skin, under any of the major Mac browsers in the latest version of Mountain Lion or of iOS 6.1. Additionally, it does not affect iOS 4.2.1, for whatever that's worth.
 * it only occurs at this site
 * it only affects the wikia skin
 * it affects the Windows browsers you've listed at user talk:CzechOut
 * it does affect your installation of iOS 6.1
 * it does not affect your account in monobook
 * it does not affect in wikiamobile
 * it is present, on this site, from your devices, whether you're logged in or not, seemingly eliminating an account-specific error

Because you've demonstrated that it is only happening at this site, I've put up a thread on the Forums just to see if any one else can confirm this error. 00:07: Sun 10 Mar 2013
 * Please return to Tardis:Help and tell me what you see now. 00:32: Sun 10 Mar 2013
 * Just wanted to say thanks for all your help in providing raw data for this problem. Without it, the error could not have been run to ground quite so quickly.  17:40: Mon 11 Mar 2013
 * I'll take care of the forced cache rebuild through a bot process. The refresh is kinda intersecting with the project to get rid of all the "worked on" categories, since a lot of the pages that use DPL do so in order to leverage the information from the "worked on" categories.  Once the "worked" on categories are removed by the bot, it'll be clearer what has to be done with the DPL refresh issue.  How's that for simple and straightforward?  :)  04:56: Wed 13 Mar 2013

Causality
There are some nouns which appear in DWU fiction that are ill-defined in DWU fiction, and do not make for the greatest of articles. Causality is one of them, because it's never really defined in DWU fiction. You're conflating causality with causal nexus throughout the article. They aren't the same, and you can't define "causality" with "causal nexus", even though they seem like they might be strongly related.

You can only report what actually exists within the fiction; you cannot make leaps of logic to connect one thing with another.

Please avoid saying things like "our genuius Time Lord", and "we know" and, indeed, the present tense generally within in-universe articles. You should consider yourself an archivist at the end of the DWU, reporting the facts of that universe as if it had actually existed. Please remember, too, that you can't use your knowledge of the real world to fill in logical gaps in the info as presented in DWU narratives

If this is an example of your work, I'm a little worried because of the sheer number of our most basic editing principles that it violates. Maybe the most basic is your violation of T:TENSES, which tells us that that past tense is absolutely, firmly, ain't-no-way-around-it required. I must ask you to review your work, wiki wide, and correct your usage of present, future, cognitional, or any other tense. 04:10: Mon 18 Mar 2013
 * Okay, I've parked your text at Talk:Causality until we can massage it back into an acceptable shape. 04:20: Mon 18 Mar 2013

Blinovitch
No probs. :-)

Don't forget what I said in my edit summary: don't mention story titles in sentences in in-universe pages. Put them instead in brackets as sources.

Aside from that, you seem to be a very dedicated editor, from the time and energy you put into that page! --SOTO ☎ 23:28, March 19, 2013 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hi! I suggest you take a look at Tardis:Edit summary. There are some guidelines for what to write and what not to write.

The thing is that edit summaries don't just show up on the "recent activity" page; they also show up in the history of the page's edits. Humorous comments, while a nice way to break tension, are not helpful for someone looking for a specific edit. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  18:38, March 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * If you click the "Help" at the top of the page, you then get the page that has a long list of useful things. If what you want isn't there, then scroll down the page a bit, there is a large box of info that has a little search box. You can choose to search the Tardis space or the Help space or both. I tried it with the word summary and it took me to a list of several pages, at the top of which was "edit summary".
 * Another feature I use when I know a page exists but can't quite remember the name is to use the auto-suggest in the regular search box. For example, for the page I quoted above, I would type Tardis colon, and then maybe "ed" and see what shows up. Shambala108 ☎  18:54, March 21, 2013 (UTC)