Forum:Tardisode infoboxes and dab

Now that Infobox Story has been established, I think the infobox for the Tardisodes need sorting out. Especially as they're not strictly BBC Wales TV stories, nor actually feature any Doctor or companion, unless you count Mickey in Tardisode 3.

Relatedly, what dab term should be used for them on the offchance there are images for this thing? First that comes to mind is (Tardisode), but that comes across as redundant. -- Tybort (talk page) 15:54, March 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * DAB wise I'd suggest (webcast). --Tangerineduel / talk 14:04, March 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, of course they weren't webcasts, though. They're mobile phone content.  I like TV story, because they are actually a part of a TV story.  TV story doesn't, to me, mean "broadcast on BBC One".  To me, it means anything directly related to a TV story, produced by the TV production crew.  So Up All Night is a TV story, just like the prequels for series 6, just like the Tardisodes of series 2, just like The Infinite Quest, just like Dreamland, just like Meanwhile in the TARDIS.


 * As far as sorting out the infobox, what do you mean exactly? I can only imagine you mean that the prev/next chain needs to have the Tardisodes woven into them — that it should be New Earth followed by Tardisode 2, followed by Tooth and Claw followed by Tardisode 3 followed by School Reunion, etc.  16:30: Tue 20 Mar 2012


 * I think he also means what do we put in the fields for 'Doctor' and 'Companion', since in most stories they are not featured. Currently, we stated what Doctor/companion each Tardisode and Prequel is part of (For example Tardisode 1 would be Tenth Doctor and Rose) and then put (not featured). I think we should only state the Doctor/companion if they actually appear and strip out any Tardisode/prequel that states some along the lines of: X Doctor (not featured). MM/ Want to talk? 17:18, March 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, Tardisodes are production crew, you got me there, CzechOut. If we're using that flexible terminology (though I have no issue with Dreamland or The Infinite Quest, as as far as I can tell, they DID premiere on television, if not BBC One), should there be (or is there) some guideline on the wiki that says it?
 * To expand on what Mini-mitch was saying, I can maybe, maybe count Tardisodes 3 (where the Doctor and Rose are on the other side of a phone call), and 10 (which is about the Abzorbaloff finding the Doctor), but in the rest, the Doctor and his companions don't especially have anything to do with those mini-plots. The same seems to apply to at least The Impossible Astronaut and The Curse of the Black Spot's prequels (the following ones less so). Maybe change around the parameters on those pages to state the actual central characters in the mini-episodes (though of course Prequel (Let's Kill Hitler) and Prequel (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) DOES have the Doctor as the main character). -- Tybort (talk page) 17:41, March 20, 2012 (UTC)