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

 * Capitol to The Capitol, since it's (obviously) not the only Capitol in the Doctor Who universe.
 * 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) should be renamed Interference (prose series) — see this Panopticon thread — or Interference - Book One (novel) and Interference - Book Two (novel) should lose their (novel)s, as originally argued here.
 * Main Range to The Monthly Adventures.
 * Charged Vacuum Emboitment to Charged Vacuum Emboitement.
 * 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!)
 * Tim Shaw's pod to Tzim-Sha's pod.
 * Dave Stone to Dave Stone (Many Happy Returns), and Dave Stone (writer) to Dave Stone.


 * 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.

Mergers

 * Global Chemicals into Panorama Chemicals.
 * Galaxy 7 into Seventh Galaxy.
 * Arnold Korns and Arthur Corn into Arthur Korns.
 * Charon (Deadly Reunion) into Charon (Katarina in the Underworld).
 * Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks) into Vulcan (Invasion of the Daleks).

Restorations

 * The pages listed at User:NateBumber/Sandbox2 should be restored per Thread:264328.

Policy

 * I support the main ideas of OttselSpy25's proposal that Rule 4 invalid stories with the Doctor Who license should instead be treated as alternate universes – in particular, see my thoughts at Special:Diff/3087635 – and I believe a majority of editors (and admins) on this wiki would, too.
 * 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 up 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: and I don't get why everyone acts like dabbing by first appearance is a bad thing!
 * Everything 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 except in page titles,
 * 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).
 * Lists of appearances should be sorted chronologically rather than by medium. It just makes sense that the story listed in the "First appearance" variable should be the first entry on the list, regardless of medium; the current "TV, audio, prose, comic" standard is an apparent violation of T:NPA. In a chronological list format, medium can still be indicated via the standard prefixes (PROSE et al).