User talk:Thefartydoctor

=UserTalk: The Farty Doctor=

Hello there!
Let's chat! If you have a question or a topic or something that you'd like to say then please feel free to leave your question/comment here and I'll get back to you if and when I remember (my memory is awful)... I await your comment! The Farty Doctor

Thanks for your copyedits
Hey, it's always great to see another copy editor around. Thanks for you edits so far! Couldn't resist responding to your edit summary at The Stolen Earth. It's not an Americanization — like that zed there — to make a possessive out of a plural noun. To spell the plural of Dalek Dalek's isn't "American". It's just wrong. You won't find a single American text book giving license for such an abomination. Thanks for catching it — because, of course, a spellchecker couldn't. 01:27:33 Tue 19 Jul 2011
 * Hey, thanks for getting back to me. Could you show me the message I left? I know that you never use an apostrophe to make a plural. I'm a grammar Nazi and a graduate of languages so I'm a little concerned I said that haha. I must have surely been referring to something else?
 * The Farty  Doctor   Talk
 * The edit says: "Apostrophe not needed on plural noun; removed the Americanisation- just a matter of taking the time to proof-read". As you can see, I used a semi-colon to separate two matters that I was correcting. I pointed out that the "apostrophe [was] not needed on [the] plural noun" and that my second correction was an Americanisation. The errors weren't related. But thanks for your comment. :)
 * The Farty  Doctor   Talk  14:42, July 11, 2014 (UTC)

06:43: Wed 21 Dec 2011

de.doctorwho
Hey Matthew. I've got a problem that I need your help with. We're trying really hard here at en.doctorwho to keep the interlanguage links simple across all the DW wikis. We want users to know exactly how to get to a DW wiki in another language. Thus the standard nomenclature is w:c:xx.doctorwho. If you want French, it's w:c:fr.doctorwho. If you want Polish, its w:c:pl.doctorwho. If you want Spanish, it's w:c:es.doctorwho.

It's vital to have only one main wiki per language, because the MediaWiki software lets us choose only one wiki per language for the creation of inter-language links.

The problem is that we now have two competing German wikis. There's the one you adopted at w:c:de.doctorwho, and there's the one that was created this year at w:c:de.doctorwhotorchwood. That wiki has had explosive growth. It's now sittin' on about 800 pages of main namespace content. Your wiki is still below 50 pages.

Because of this large disparity of information, we think de.doctorwhotorchwood should get the de.doctorwho url. So what we'd like to do is to merge the two wikis, but let you retain your admin status on the "new" de.doctorwho.

Does that sound like something you'd agree to? Or have you lost enthusiasm for editing Doctor Who content such that you don't even need to keep your admin status? 21:48: Sun 12 Aug 2012
 * Hi, thanks for getting in touch. I didn't know the other Wiki existed so I'm happy to get rid of the other one- it's a lot better! Haha I had been spending time on other Wikis anyway so wouldn't have found the time. I'll try to delete it now. :)

Hope this is okay! The Farty  Doctor   Talk  21:23, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Nope, you need take no further action. I've got it all set up with Wikia.  Just waiting on your consent.  We'll take it from here.  Thanks :) 21:34: Thu 16 Aug 2012
 * Oops, I sorta asked them too. I'm also going to ask the Wikia people to ask the the admins of the other German Doctor Who Wikia if they need any of our information before they delete it so it's in there hands and when they respond, it'll then be deleted. Also, speaking frankly, the last edit was 1st June 2012 and it's got hardly any pages in comparison to the other one so there's really no point in keeping it. :)
 * Hope that's okay with you :)
 * The Farty  Doctor   Talk  15:18, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

Welsh wiki
Heya :) Not sure if you know about it, but there's now w:c:cy.doctorwho, and it's being actively edited by Cyruptsaram. If you're interested, it could really use your Welsh language skills.   18:18: Tue 08 Jul 2014

Question to CzechOut
Hi! I wanted to answer your question to CzechOut because he's pretty busy with behind the scenes stuff and may not see your answer for a while.

First of all, when you reply to someone's post on your talk page, it's policy to reply on the other user's talk page. If you reply on your page, the other user won't get a notice onscreen and won't get an email, whereas if you leave the reply on their page, they will get the onscreen notice and an email notification.

Anyway, it looks to me that CzechOut is not stating that you made the error, but rather, when you corrected it, your description of the error was incorrect. In other words, you cited the wiki's use of British English to correct the use of "Dalek's" to mean plural, and CzechOut was letting you know that it's not correct in American English either, or anywhere else that uses English. Hope this helps! Shambala108 ☎  14:55, July 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * P.S. I just saw your second reply to CzechOut, so I guess you don't need my input! Just keep in mind that if you have a question for him in future, reply on his page, not yours. Shambala108 ☎  14:56, July 11, 2014 (UTC)