User talk:SOTO

To save you the trouble, just call me SOTO. Also, please sign your messages. Thanks.

× SmallerOnTheOutside  (☎/ ✍ / ↯ ) If you've come here to request a simple, uncontroversial page move, please consider using instead. This puts all rename requests into a neat little chart that all admin can see and work on.

Archiving talk page
Hey, I have 47 topics on my talk page, and though it was long enough to be worthy archiving. However, as it's be my first time doing it, I think i messed it up (twice, actually).
 * My first attempt made an empty page (I think I didn't click "select all" before publishing)
 * My second attempt seems ok. However, my normal talk page still displays all messages.

Can you give me a bit of advice how to fix these? Thanks OncomingStorm12th ☎  17:04, January 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it certainly does work now. As for the talk page not being empty before, it probably just wasn't properly "updated", even though there wasn't content anymore. Anyway, thanks a lot. OncomingStorm12th ☎  17:22, January 29, 2017 (UTC)

Big merge request
Hi, me again, sorry for being a nuisance. As you might have noticed, I'm slowly reviewing the Titan comics. However, having read the first two years of them, I have a significant advantage over editors who created the pages without knowing all the twists to come. In particular, 11D stories are more or less one big arc per year (Moffat-style). But it was not at all obvious at the beginning. More precisely, the same character has been introduced at least three times in the first three stories, and still has at least two pages (it's complicated as the other pages should remain methinks). I've put in a merge request, and would like to ask you to review the merge and perform it if possible. However, having being at least partially responsible for spoiling Class novels, before going into the details, I'd like to ask your permission to spoil. Amorkuz ☎  00:52, January 30, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it is an unpaid job though, and admins should also be free to enjoy DWU. Disclaimer: I will clean up the page and I will merge the lists of appearances now (fortunately, not made into separate pages yet), however, the first year of 11D (second too actually) is extremely Moffatey, by which I mean timey-wimey. So getting a straight sequence of events out of the convoluted narrative is a big job (time-consuming in the absence of search function).What I will do now is combine the existing material of the two pages and would be extending it, going story by story, rather than character by character.
 * Just to make sure I'm not going against tradition here (and trying to keep spoilers to the minimum): what we have is a shapeshifting creature that stayed in one form for some time and then changed its form (to an individual it met before), after which it kept changing form at will. Currently, we have one page for the initial stable form and another page for the multiple different forms it took after. My reason for merging is that it is the same consciousness assuming different shapes. (There is a mild complication that a portion of this creature was kept elsewhere and was destroyed. However, there is a very apparent telepathic connection between this portion and the rest. Thus, I think both the portion and the creature (before and after the shapeshifting began) should still be covered on the same page.) If you agree with this reasoning, then I'd appreciate merging Entity (The Friendly Place) onto Talent Scout. Amorkuz ☎  09:27, January 30, 2017 (UTC)
 * I thought about it again, just to be sure. I know how to tell a story about the merged thing, a story that has a beginning and an end. But if you start breaking this story into parts, then it's not clear why you should stay at two pages only. The story gets splintered and harder to understand. I think merging is the right thing to do.
 * UPD. In fact, I just bumped into an in-universe evidence for the merge that I completely forgot about. It's an explicit timeline drawn by the Doctor and present on Talent Scout. Ok, no more options anymore. Merge-merge-merge.
 * PS: Wow, when I mentioned pages moved, I did not expect it to be that much. Amorkuz ☎  23:43, January 30, 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Amorkuz ☎  00:01, January 31, 2017 (UTC)

Thread:179549
So I've recently become bothered by how Thread:179549 ended. Not because it didn't have the conclusion that I wanted two years ago when I opened it, but because the final conclusions to the thread are extremely hasty and have nothing to do with the discussion in question. If anything, it ignores the discussion to instead just make up a new precedent out of thin air. I don't even care about if the Cushing films are valid or not -- it's more that such a huge decision on how we decide Rule 4 on this site shouldn't come from one admin bringing up his views before shutting down the thread before anyone else can agree or disagree.

My issue is that people might one day try to quote the "findings" of this thread in another discussion, and in my eyes the conclusion has little to do with what we were actually talking about and is extremely flawed. There's a whole flood of future discussions about unwritten stories that this forum could preemptively end, when the forum itself wasn't really handled all that well. I'm going to move forwards that we somehow seek to re-open it to continue the discussion, and I figured you would be a good place to start asking since the admin in question has become inactive. Do you have any thoughts? OS25 (Talk) 15:13, January 30, 2017 (UTC)

Pages moved by users
Hey. So, I recall the last few weeks a few non-admin have moved some pages. Even though the names that currently exist are indeed the correct ones, links were left behind to the previous names. So I'm dropping a list of pages whose named have been moved:

These have correct titles, and the redirects should be deleted, as well as links moved to new name

 * Norris was moved to Chuck Norris
 * Golgalith was moved to Golgauth (as well as the talk page)
 * Sydney (Deadline) was moved to Sydney Newman (Deadline)
 * Antigone was moved to Antigone (Psychodrome)
 * The Doctor (Exile) was moved to Third Doctor (Exile)
 * Previous Doctor (Exile) was moved to Second Doctor (Exile)
 * Tom (Deadline) was moved to Tom Bannister
 * Amy (Deadline) was moved to Amy Bannister
 * Anastasia (Duchess) was moved to Anastasia Romanov
 * Ian (Ghosts of Winterborne) was moved to Ian Burgess
 * Project Longinus (comic series) was moved to The Forge (comic series)
 * Cyber-Control (Mondas) was moved to Cyber-Control (Telos), though this one will later need a move to Cyber-Control (Tomb of the Cybermen)
 * Justine (Alien Bodies) was moved to Justine McManus
 * Anarchitects was moved to Anarchitect
 * P.R.O.B.E. was moved to P.R.O.B.E. (series)
 * Shuncucker was moved to Kresta Ve Coglana Shuncucker
 * Patience's husband was moved to Fifth Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)
 * The Eleven-Day Empire (audio story) was moved to The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)
 * Ruthven was moved to Ruthven (The Ruthven Inheritance)
 * A'daletem Ano'nde was moved to A'daltem Ano'nde
 * Pokemon Go was moved to Pokémon Go

These don't have correct titles, and should be moved back

 * The Diary of River Song, which was moved to The Diary of River Song (audio series)
 * UNIT: The New Series, which was moved to UNIT: The New Series (audio series)
 * The Companions of Doctor Who, which was moved to The Companions of Doctor Who (series)
 * Adventures in a Pocket Universe, which was moved to Adventures in a Pocket Universe (audio series)
 * The New Counter-Measures, which was moved to The New Counter-Measures (audio series)
 * Time Hunter, which was moved to Time Hunter (series)
 * The Churchill Years, which was moved to The Churchill Years (audio series)
 * The Adventures of K9, which was moved to The Adventures of K9 (series)

PS: Wow. That's a lot more than I expected. Probably now the faster way to deal with this might be using the bot. OncomingStorm12th ☎  20:53, January 30, 2017 (UTC)

I screwed up
Hi. This is a note with an apology for making you do unnecessary work and for making a mistake. Good news: I can fix it by myself. My only consolation (and a promise) that in the end it will be better than before. Before it was correct but incomplete; now it is incorrect and incomplete; I will make it correct and complete. The situation is even more complicated than I thought. And it cannot be edited on an issue by issue basis. Bottomline: I did not do enough research. I will and fix things. Amorkuz ☎  22:13, January 31, 2017 (UTC)