User talk:CzechOut

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Idris.jpg
The reason you gave for deleting File:Idris.jpg was "Unjustifiably long vs. width: no excuse for a non-widescreen image of a BBC Wales featured character." However, there is only the one very brief scene while the character is still Idris, before she's killed off, and at no point is there what you'd call a "widescreen" shot of the character; for that whole scene she's always either surrounded by the other characters, who should of course be cropped out for an image illustrating Idris, or is distant from the camera and unusably small on-screen. The shot I used was what I feel is the best possible one out of the episode to illustrate her, but to fit your criteria one would have to crop out vertical bits of her to make it "widescreen" and we'd end up with even less of a usable image, beginning at her eyebrows and stopping at her chin or something.

Additionally, why would you delete an image which fits all the criteria at Tardis:Image use policy simply because you think we could do better, instead of actually doing better? Is it not best in any case to have an image there, in hopes of replacing it later when a better source becomes available? &mdash; Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 20:19, November 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * I do see where you're coming from on this, but I still feel that even when the clothes are the same, the character that is actually being portrayed is important. You wouldn't use file:Alligence.jpg atop the Fourth Doctor page because it's not an image of the Fourth Doctor, it's an image of Meglos, and the distinction is very important to the story in which it appears. It's the same type of argument as the one concerning publicity and promo shots; you yourself have indicated the importance of distinguishing pictures of the characters from pictures of the actors in their costumes out-of-context. I put it to you that it's just as important to distinguish the image of one character from the image of another even when they're played by the same actor in the same costume. That's why we can't swap photos on Eleventh Doctor and Eleventh Doctor (Ganger) even though they might look the same to someone unfamiliar with the story, and why we can't crop out a screenshot of the Sixth Doctor which only shows his face and illustrate Maxil with it. When an actor is playing a dual role it makes a difference which role they are playing. Their facial expressions, posture, surroundings, and everything are all just as much a part of the performance as their clothes and hairstyle, and it's all relevant in a shot of the character. So, that one scene is the only time we have an in-Universe image of Suranne as Idris rather than Suranne as the TARDIS, and it's worth having a shot from it as the primary photo for Idris. &mdash; Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 21:19, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

Riftan 5
I earlier today attempted to restore the page Riftan 5, except that it now gives an error message. I'm not familiar with fixing this sort of thing, so I thought maybe you could help with it. Doug86 talk to me 01:08, November 11, 2011 (UTC)

Image cheat card
It looks fine to me, although I would add in the User image policy - what kind of images they can upload, how many etc - alongside adding the rule of fan made images. There should also be a link to the reasons why an image can get deleted, so User know what they can and can't do/have with/as the image. MM/ Want to talk? 11:34, November 11, 2011 (UTC)

Looks good, though I'm wondering where concept art and/or behind-the-scenes pictures would fit in; I assume it would be the same usage as publicity images. I ask because Vinvocci has a behind-the-scenes picture on the page (which I hope we don't have to remove). -<Azes13 talk to me 13:30, November 11, 2011 (UTC)

Very nice. Looks pretty complete to me.-- 14:35, November 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * It looks fine. We really have had a lot of discussions to shape the policies haven't we.
 * I'd second Azes13's musings. I think we need to state firmly our position on concept art, which I don't think is established outside of the Template:Concept tag. I've had a look around and can't find anywhere that our position is stated. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:09, November 11, 2011 (UTC)

No wallpapers
Thanks for the reminder, I'll make sure to only post screenshots in the future.

QotW
Since QotW is over a month behind, should the ones from October be skipped, or should they be posted weekly, disregarding the dates? Additionally, some weeks have either no votes or a tie, and even some have no quotes. What should be done in those situations?

It seems sensical to go with the first course of action in the first dilemna, for we'd end up having specially-themed quotes at wrong times (such as New Year's Eve in January or February) if the second option were to be taken. 19:45 Fri 11 Nov 2011


 * I've updated the QotW to this week's one. I guess I'll make it my weekly task from now on. :P ~ 16:56 Sat 11 Nov 2011

Oh no.
I've made a mess of disambiguating again, haven't I? Sorry, because they weren't story pages, it didn't cross my mind until it was too late, but I'm gathering that Shug and Magda shouldn't exist as pages, correct? -- Tybort (talk page) 20:07, November 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Relatedly, if there's two characters, do I basically just scrap the disambig page and say "you may be looking for" on the top of each page, is that the right idea? -- Tybort (talk page) 20:22, November 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, looks like the name I was looking at has three examples after all. Although, what on Earth would I actually label the Byzantine Emperor Constantine? Would that be Constantine (Shadowmind)? -- Tybort (talk page) 21:36, November 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I suppose The Council of Nicea is an actual appearance rather than (at least what sounds like) background information. -- Tybort (talk page) 00:37, November 12, 2011 (UTC)

New disambig possibilities
Thank you for the helpful list. I would love to get updates on names and disambiguation page stubs! :D Also I will be careful next time with naming the pictures, like "Human_Nature_scarecrow.jpg" instead of "Human_Nature_685.jpg".

Jasononthehouse talk to me 23:22, November 12, 2011 (UTC)

other things
Do you think Doctor Who 6x11 The God Complex 163.jpg and Weeping Angel rawr.jpg are duplicate images? I preferred the image (which now became "unused") that was used on "Weeping Angels" page before Weeping Angel rawr.jpg was uploaded.

Also I think Eyepatch4.jpg and 400px-Eye-patch-curse-570x321.jpg are definitely duplicate images. But I don't quite get the instructions about duplicate images on "Image Use Policy" page.

Jasononthehouse talk to me 07:45, November 13, 2011 (UTC)

badge
the 'make 5 edits on disagubation pages' badge has 'engine' spelt wrong. if you get a minute could you fix it?. Metardis 11:30, November 14, 2011 (UTC)

Refusal to allow redirect puzzling
I understand the idea of using a standard nomenclature for article titles, but exactly why do you want this wiki to be more difficult to navigate by not allowing a redirect at a longstanding article like Doctor Who Adventures comic strip stories???? 14:58, November 15, 2011 (UTC)

Dates
Doug86 I don't think followed the cardinal/ordinal numbers discussion as he's been deleting everything. Could you run the bot through and recreate them? I can't really be arsed undeleting them all at the moment. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:14, November 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * I dunno, Doug86's very delete-happy some of the time.
 * And like me he usually changes everything in the 'What links here' and then deletes the page. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:43, November 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * As I said, I couldn't be bothered doing it and I'm not going to try.
 * I'm trying to do NaNoWriMo, so it leaves me feeling less like writing a lot on here, so that's why I've not been around a lot and probably won't be until the end of November. --Tangerineduel / talk 17:07, November 15, 2011 (UTC)

Categorising arcs
I really do not understand Retsinif's connecting random not even seemingly disconnected arcs as categories to various story pages. Is that just me? -- Tybort (talk page) 22:20, November 15, 2011 (UTC)

Timelink?
Ah i got it from the Timelink: Vol 1 reference book, I'll stop using it if i'm not allowed to do it.

Also i've just done the bit that you just sent to me (@import url("/index.php?title=MediaWiki:FixMe.css&ctype=text/css&action=raw");) and just published it.

TimeTraveller34 talk to me 19:01, November 16, 2011 (UTC)