User:NateBumber

Hi! I'm Nate, a fellow who wears many hats: moderator of the r/doctorwho and r/gallifrey communities; admin of the Faction Paradox and Obverse wikis; and few-time Faction Paradox short story writer! Nothing is canon, but the Eighth Doctor novels are canoner than NuWho, and I will challenge you to Rock Paper Scissors if you disagree.

Disclaimer: I do my best to stick to, and I absolutely never intend to attack anyone through what I say on this site. If any reader takes unintended offense at anything I say, I sincerely apologize; feel free to contact me about it and I'll retract the perceived insult at the earliest opportunity.

Come join our growing community of wiki editors at the official Doctor Who Discord! (When you join, just ping me @NateBumber#5584 to give you the Wiki role.)

Changes I'd currently like on the wiki
A brief catalogue of my relevant (and irrelevant) Sandbox pages can be found at User:NateBumber/Sandbox. Big thanks to all the admins who have helped with things on this list!

Renames

 * Barnaby Edwards to Barnaby Edwards (Old Friend), and Barnaby Edwards (actor) to Barnaby Edwards.
 * Brenda to Brenda (disambiguation), which should really be done with most disambiguation pages.
 * Dalek invasion of Mars to 2150s Dalek invasion of Mars.
 * Dave Stone to Dave Stone (Many Happy Returns), then Dave Stone (writer) to Dave Stone.
 * DWBIT Dalek Wars to Dalek Wars (series).
 * Edifice (TARDIS) to Edifice (The Ancestor Cell); Edifice (building) to Edifice (The Forever Trap); and Edifice (spaceship) to Edifice (The Sirens of Time).
 * Either Interference (novel) to Interference (prose series) — see this Panopticon thread — or Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) to Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two, as originally argued here.
 * John Lucarotti to John Lucarotti (The Meeting), then John Lucarotti (writer) to John Lucarotti.
 * Main Range to The Monthly Adventures.
 * Sabbath Dei to Sabbath.
 * Andrew Williams to Andrew Williams (electrician), then Andrew Williams (She Came From Another World!) to Andrew Williams.
 * Torchwood (TV series) to Torchwood (series), as its fifth and sixth series have been audio rather than television.
 * Untitled (DWS short story) to Untitled (short story), as unlike all the other "Untitled"s on the wiki, its actual title is "Untitled". (Thanks for the headache, Rob!)
 * There are a ton of unnamed Torchwood characters whose pages have generic-description titles without any episode dab terms: Young policeman; Scene-of-crime officer; Pizza lad; Murdered woman; Hen night girl; Senior nurse; and Parliamentary Secretary are just a few. Chinese girl is also ... odd.

Links moved

 * Ambulance Pilot to Ambulance pilot (Cortex Fire)
 * Hawthrone Blood (home video) to Hawthorne Blood (home video)
 * Hester to Hester (Disassembled)
 * Hodges to Hodges (Human Nature)
 * Poppy Munday's mam to Winnie (Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective)
 * Sydney (Human Nature) to Sydney Smith
 * Verity (Human Nature) to Verity Smith

Links not moved
Either because the present name should stay as a redirect, or because I just haven't gotten around to it yet :)
 * Charged Vacuum Emboitment to Charged Vacuum Emboitement
 * Dominion to Dominion (Dominion)
 * Maxie (The Door We Forgot) to Maxie Masters
 * Teka to Teka Larchput
 * The Crystal Bucephalus to Crystal Bucephalus

Mergers

 * Azmeal into Azmael (see User:NateBumber/Sandbox/Azmael)
 * Chamberlain (Risk Assessment) into Neville Chamberlain
 * Charon (Deadly Reunion) into Charon (Katarina in the Underworld)
 * City (The Aztecs) into Tenochtitlan
 * Galaxy 7 into Seventh Galaxy
 * Giles Case File - Stacey Facade (webcast) into Case File - Stacey Facade (webcast)
 * Global Chemicals into Panorama Chemicals
 * Gods (Omega) into Minyan (as it's about how Minyan culture and history perceived the Time Lords)
 * Miranda (Beyond the Sun) into Iranda
 * Mordee (people) into Mordee expedition
 * Planet (The Face of Evil) into Mordee
 * Planet (The Legacy of Gallifrey) into Vitrol Minor
 * Praxis gas into Praxis
 * San Francisco earthquake into 1906 San Francisco earthquake
 * Tasha's father into Andrew Williams (She Came From Another World!)
 * Tristan Howell into Trystan Howell
 * User:NateBumber/Sandbox/Ulysses into Ulysses
 * Varn into Presidential bodyguard (The Invasion of Time)
 * Venusian Lullaby into Venusian lullaby
 * Wild-goose chase into Wild goose chase
 * Wrench into Spanner

Restorations

 * Untitled (TVC 798 comic story), per User talk:Scrooge MacDuck.
 * The pages listed at User:NateBumber/Sandbox2, per Thread:264328.

Deletions

 * Joanna Van Kempen
 * Mordee (disambiguation)
 * User:NateBumber/UserPage

Policy

 * The growth of metafictional information on this wiki is incredibly confusing to the not we who expect pages like Doctor Who Series 9 to, you know, talk about Doctor Who Series 9. We need better and more explicit policy for disambiguation in this kind of scenario. See Talk:The Woman Who Lived and Talk:Dave Stone. As just one example out of many, Erasing Sherlock should be Erasing Sherlock (N-Space) or Erasing Sherlock (The Doctor's universe).
 * The implications of Shambala108's ruling that character pages should only have 2-3 sentences per story have yet to be realised on the wiki.
 * The Master must be split into The Master (Terror of the Autons), The Master (Dominion), Missy, The Master (Utopia), War Master, etc so there's more room to discuss each story. See Talk:The Master/Archive 6.
 * Most material about the Doctor's childhood on First Doctor should be removed and redirected to The Doctor's early life, in accord with T:NPOV. See Talk:The Doctor's early life.
 * Likewise, large portions of Third Doctor should be redirected to Exile on Earth, where events can be discussed in more detail.
 * Per CzechOut's decision that novelisations are valid sources,
 * EITHER Mitchell (The Sea Devils) should be renamed Tony Mitchell, Pilot (The Horns of Nimon) should be renamed Sekkoth, and Mickey Smith's mother should be renamed Odessa Smith (see here for a longer list);
 * OR Edward Wright should be renamed Polly Wright's father, Cass Fermazzi should be renamed Cass (The Night of the Doctor), and Crane should be renamed Nurse (The Curse of Fenric).
 * Additionally, novelisations and other adaptations should be included in lists of appearances, just as they already are on Patience, Iranda, etc.
 * This interview has me rethinking how we write leads on this wiki. I haven't settled on anything articulable yet, but my changes to The Beatles and Musée d'Orsay may give some insight into my thinking.
 * T:DAB OTHER needs a significant tweak: characters and concepts with minor appearances in other universes don't need separate pages. For instance, it serves no one that Moira (Shadow World) is a separate page from Moira (The Pilot), Ebay (Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary) from eBay, or Badger (The Blue Angel) and Badger (Auld Mortality) from Badger (Lungbarrow).
 * It generally makes more sense to sort things like bibliographies and lists of appearance chronologically, rather than by medium. At the very least, the story listed in a character's "First appearance" variable should be the first entry on their appearances list, regardless of medium.