User talk:Gousha

Hellfire Club
Really good work with the Hellfire Club article i must say however please don't relegate Faction Paradox audios to the notes section as this wikia treats them the same way as they do any other Doctor Who related media.

Thanks,-Revanvolatrelundar 10:42, January 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * I was unclear on that. Thanks!  I'll revise accordingly. Gousha 21:49, January 1, 2011 (UTC)

Good work
Hey there, I've enjoyed reading your edits on the Big Finish monthly range. It is a section that is in need of improvement and you have all but completed some of the Eighth Doctor audios. Keep up the good work. --Revan\Talk 09:01, February 5, 2011 (UTC) 16:32: Tue 20 Dec 2011

Songs
I saw absolutely no point in the category for a number of reasons:

1) What category would it fit into? There was none, so you would have had to create more and more categories so the 'stories with songs' would have fitted into a proper category.

2) What did it cover - stories with songs was very, very vague - if someone never knew what it actually meant - they would have added it to every story in which there was a song played - most of these would have been background songs. What would be the point in known this?

3) What else is similar? By creating 'stories with songs', other users would have been inclined to create categories such as 'stories with dancing', 'stories with drinking' and eventually 'stories with talking'.

4) Creating what seemed to be a random category - it could also look like you were trying to score point on the Game of Rassilon - creating random categories just to get point can get yo blocked by the way.

So by creating a category that could not fit into another existing category could therefore result in a lot of similar categories being made, some of which would be ridiculous, vague or pointless.

However, I do like your think - and everything above was not criticism, it was reasoning. I think you are a very good editor and enjoying seeing your work - I just hope that this has not put you off editing or has discourage you in anyway (some users do feel this way). Keep up the good work and do not hesitate to contact me or another admin if you need to ask/anything. Thanks. MM/ Want to talk? 19:27, December 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * I understand MM's concerns, and think that the title of this category needed work. But I like the concept of the category.  It does have something to offer the database, if I understand your explanatory text correctly.  You're basically looking for those stories where the characters break into song.  So what you need is a precise expression of that.  I think category:Stories in which a character sings will fit the bill nicely. Then you just put it in category:Stories by narrative characteristic, and then put that into category:Stories.  02:32: Sun 15 Jan 2012
 * I think your text at Category:Stories in which a character sings doesn't fit the title. So now I'm unclear what you're trying to get at.  Why have you limited it to original songs?  What's wrong with Terror of the Autons, where the Doctor sings a song by the Ink Spots? Or Rose, where the Doctor sings a snippet of Sinatra? I'd suggest that the category title you created would admit any song sung by a character . Would it upset you greatly if the text were modified to make it match what the category name actually says?  07:51: Sun 15 Jan 2012
 * Well, I think we avoid the problems that MM has rightly flagged if we stick to the most certain phraseology. If you say "original song", you're left with the quandry of what to make of Pertwee's "Aggedor-calming" song in the Peladon adventures.  The words are sort of original, but the tune is not.  If, on the other hand, we go with the category name as it currently is, that's pretty solid.  Every time a character sings anything, the story gets put on the list.


 * I'm gathering that what you really wanted to do was a category named "Doctor Who musicals". But there's only really one, so that's not enough for a category.  So it looks like you're yearning to try to do something as close to that hypothetical category as possible, and that's where this all becomes quite confused.  It's simpler just to go with category:stories in which a character sings.


 * I think you're looking for something like category:stories in which a character sings a song written specifically for that story. And again, I think you're going to get into all sorts of grey area during the Pertwee era and elsewhere.  It's not just Inferno that he sings when he drives.  And almost none of the Pertwee musicality is "written specifically" or "wholly original" to that story.  It was improv that he came up with.  And because of Pertwee's penchant for putting together songs on the fly, some editors would doubtless want to include the Terror of the Autons bit, even though that actually isn't at all original.


 * When building categories, the central questions are:
 * Is the name easy enough for everyone to understand? This doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be short.  Stories in which the Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords and People interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential not involved in production of televised Doctor Who are long names, but they're pretty clear.
 * Will the name present problems with future maintenance? If it can be interpreted in more than one way, then it'll probably mean that an admin might be enforcing one interpretation, while users are thinking about it differently.  That's why Tagerineduel and I are pretty lukewarm on these Story arcs subcategories.  People have varying interpretations as to what the Torchwood arc actually is.  Does it actually include Bad Wolf and Love & Monsters, just because Torchwood gets a namecheck?  Or does it require something of narrative import, like Tooth and Claw for it to be in the "Torchwood story arc"?


 * I really think if you try to stress the originally written for element, you're going to have problems with the second point.  You're asking people to prove that the song was both original to and written for the story.  And that's a tall order.  Not only are there cases where some of our editors are simply too young to tell the Ink Spots from a hole in the wall, I think there are instances where we just don't know what part of a song is original.  Did Troughton come up for the tune of the "Tower of Rassilon" song in The Five Doctors?  Or did he, like Pertwee on Peladon, take some original lyrics and fit them to an established tune?  And, when you think about it, what in Doctor Who and the Pirates is original?  I think it's just the lyrics.  Isn't the whole point that it's a riff on G & S/Pirates of Penzance, and that it therefore depends on re-using the music itself?   Does that count as original, or merely parodic?


 * I think I know now what you're going for with this category, but I just don't think it's quite achievable. The simpler phraseology of stories in which a character sings will include more stories than you originally wanted, but it will be less contestable and therefore easier to maintain in the long run.


 * I'd also have no opposition to stories with songs that have lyrics and music original to those stories, but that could include stories with extra-diegetic songs, like The Christmas Invasion ("Song for Ten") and The End of Time ("Vale Decem"), but it would exclude Doctor Who and the Pirates (unless there's a fully original song that I'm forgetting). It's the combining the two notions — sung by characters and original — that seems unmaintainable to me.   17:03: Sun 15 Jan 2012

your comments on the blog
Thanks for the kind words.Boblipton talk to me 02:20, December 30, 2011 (UTC)