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Use variable for most characters  When using infoboxes for characters or even species and objects, please remember to use the variable when something has only appeared in one story. The variable is plural, and therefore anticipates plural responses. As always, with the new series, a "story" is the same thing as an "episode". So people like Nancy from The Empty Child  still uses, because she's also in The Doctor Dances — but others like  Timothy Lloyd  use  because he's only in The Doctor Dances. Most of the pre-existing instances of have now been changed to. A word about Star Trek and Assimilation Want to help us cover the upcoming Star Trek/Doctor Who comic crossover? Great! We need your help! However, note that our spoiler policy won't allow us to start editing until 30 May 2012. In the meantime, please read this important technical announcement. Namespace color coding We've recently color-coded namespaces to make it easier for you to tell which namespace you're in. This'll help you instantly recognise the difference between writer, property:writer and talk:writer, amongst other things. There are also some technical advantages to making certain namespaces render primarily with certain fonts. This will also allow us to help people avoid spoilers, since Forum:River Song, if it existed, would be even more obviously a different place to Howling:River Song. Read all about it. What happened to the brackets, man? Have you've noticed that some infobox variables, like and  suddenly don't have brackets around them any more? This isn't a mistake. This is because they are being automatically linked by the template, so that we can create a truly powerful database. Please do not link these variables, or it will create an error that looks like this:. Read more about powerful new tools that are being built. See what's hidden! After a few months of being away, the option to see hidden categories has returned to Special:Preferences.  Read the whole story!  How are your table-making skills? All editors: please take two minutes to read this bit of advice about proper creation of tables. What's up with the search bar? Are you confused by the behavior of the search bar lately? Do you wish it would just settle down and work like it used to? If so, read this message. Performance fixes A number of subtle changes have been made to the wiki which should improve performance of those on slightly older browsers. You should be finiding that scrolling down pages will be a bit less laggy — if you ever noticed there was lag at all. People on the very latest browsers will probably not experience any noticeable performance boosts, unless they're running a lot of programs at once. If you're still experiencing any issues with the site being laggy versus other wikia sites, please clear your cache, try again, then let CzechOut know if the problem persists. Dates of Big Finish releases If you're a digital subscriber to Big Finish, we need your help! As was recently confirmed in the Big Finish podcast, their website always falsely lists the date of release of every CD as the last day of the month. But the actual release is not the end of the month. Digital subscribers receive the product on something we can accept as the "actual" release date. This date should be added to the infobox as the. Since the actual release date is both irregular and unknown, admin cannot reliably unprotect the articles without your help. Please give one of us a nudge to unblock the page on the date you receive it. Monobook finally finished By and large, the multi-month project to style the monobook skin is now complete. If you've never looked at the wiki in the monobook skin, go to Special:Preferences, and scroll down to the skin option on the first page. Why are we so late styling a skin from half a decade ago? Um, because. Skin change button All editors are enouraged to install the new skin change button so that they can easily check out the way the site looks in all three skins — monobook, wikia, and the new wikiamobile. No matter what skin you normally use to edit, it's particually important to make sure that our edits look great in wikia and wikiamobile, since these are by far the skins with which most readers see the site. New to editing the wiki? Thanks for helping us out! We're glad you're here. We've recently made it a bit easier to understand how we do things.

If you're wondering why your recently-uploaded image might have been deleted, you might want to read our image cheat card. It lists the major points of image policy in an easy-to-read chart, and will help you ensure that your image remains a part of our database.

You'll also want to peruse a few of our policies about basic editing, such as:
 * why it's important articles have leads
 * why and when you should embolden the page title
 * what kind of sources you can use for your article
 * why writing in the past tense is vital for in-universe articles
 * how to use the wiki markup "language"

Review the archive of recent changes to the wiki here. Refresh your cache often The wiki continues to undergo a complete facelift. As the new style sheet is being implemented, you may see some untidy signs of construction. Thanks for your patience as we remodel. If you want to see the latest changes, you'll probably have to bypass your browser's cache. Safari users merely need to reload pages. Firefox users just have to hold down SHIFT, then press the reload button. Chrome users can press Ctrl + F5. Those using other browsers should check their help files for specific instructions.

Alternately, you can now just pull down the "edit" menu to refresh, and that should perform an automatic purge for you.