User talk:The Librarian

OK I had a bit of a clearout....The Librarian 01:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

REMEMBERS
Continuity: the story titles should be italicised. (The way to work out references from continuity is. References are in-universe and if there's a lot of them organised under category headings (see...Alien Bodies for an example), continuity is out of universe.)

JUST WANTED TO KEEP IT

 * Hi there - just passing through and thought I'd say hello - a really nice page on BiT. Was very amused that some of the isolated images I couldn't remember drawing :) Speaking of which - back to the drawing board for issue 59! Lee Sullivan 20:45, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have spoken with Lee on a number of occassions and he has been very helpful in sourcing some of the work and approving use of his artwork. :) A thoroughly decent chap! Im adding more content (hopefully) soon. The Librarian 01:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Just loved the imagery!! Creepy!!

 * To paraphrase the Dalek movies; Every move you make I see, every sound you utter I hear...(sounds a lot less creepy in the 60s Dalek voices with the lights flashing not in sync with the voices). I'm always around here. --Tangerineduel 07:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Typos and Americans...
Well, you know how Americans like AWF and myself are a timid and shy lot, never ones to wish to cause offense... but seriously, I'm sure it was just because it was a quote from a source material, and he wanted to be sure. It's not unheard of for publications to have typos themselves. Incidentally, while AWF doesn't have a userpage yet, he does have a talk page (User talk:Americanwhofan), for messages. As for deleting the conversation on the talk page, I think that's frowned upon in the Wiki. You might want to put it up in the Forum:Panopticon or ask User:Tangerineduel or User:Doug86 about it. Monkey with a Gun 04:50, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Classic Who: The Harper Classics
The end of the sentance under Main Focus is missing. Americanwhofan 09:43, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

Question about The Germ War
Were the robots in that story called Disinfectodroid‎‎s, Disinfectoid‎‎s, or something else? The article may have to be moved. Doug86 21:09, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

Penny, pounds, dollars, euros and other thoughts in other denominations
Working in reverse, looking through your additions to Doug86's talk page.

Redirect vs deletion: Doug86 is correct in the case of articles that have been mis-spelled it is proper to move a page to the correct name, rather than delete it. This preserves the page's history.

Your 'plea'. The reason Doug86 is probably working on them I imagine is the same reason I often work on a variety of pages, and that would be that I keep the Recent changes page open in a separate tab and frequently refresh it looking at the new page edits / page creations. Editing, deleting and whatever as is necessary.

DWAS: Again Doug86 is correct. The organisation is called the 'Doctor Who Appreciation Society'. Typically we only add brackets to a name if there's a conflict (which generally would involve a disambiguation page). But if you feel that people might go looking for DWAS a redirect to the page can be created.

And finally my talk page (and a bit of Doug86's also). There are always going to be pages in the Orphaned pages list, there will be the aforementioned disambiguation pages (which generally don't have anything linking to them), there are some other pages that I can't currently think of. So I wouldn't worry about that aspect. Did you find the orphaned page list randomly or (if you're looking for a full list of stuff to do) see Tardis:To Do List. Hope this is all of some help, or slightly enlightening at the least. --Tangerineduel 07:26, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

Growth of the Wiki
I saw your message on TangerineDuel's talk page... Speaking as "some people" - yes, I am. Our pace of growth is much better than the despised mendicants of the Guild Wars Wiki. Bwahahaha! Monkey with a Gun 01:50, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

Exhibitions and Categories
If you're not sure about how to categorise something I would suggest not tagging it with any stub tag. The stub tag puts whatever page it is in the stub category (which is good some of the time). Not so helpful if you're wanting someone to categorise a page, if a page has no categories (and no stub, cleanup or other wise tags) it ends up in Special:UncategorizedPages and then from there can be categorised.

Events is a little vague of category (it also has the potential to get mixed up with some in-universe stuff).

Are you thinking in the future that we might break the Exhibitions page down into individual pages (for each exhibition with details etc), in that case we could have an Exhibitions category. For now perhaps keep sticking it in the DW merch category until we work out what we're doing with regards to it and other things. --Tangerineduel 16:29, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

Comic strips
I've been making some (minor) alterations to the comic strip infobox (and have just completed a mamoth task of going through every comic strip page fixing them). Anyways check out Template:Infobox Comic to see what's been changed (there's also handy usage and description things on that page. I haven't changed that much, I removed the underscore between the published title and published dates fields so it's just a space. There is also the collapsing fields feature built into the infobox as well so it's imperative to include all fields (even if they're not necessary) so if they're not needed the infobox will collapse those features and you won't see them.

Additionally should there be any comic strips that you come across (I haven't paid that much attention to the DWAs, but anyways) if there's any without the Doctor check out Template:Infobox Other Comics which is in much the same field as the other other infoboxes it basically replaces the Doctor and Companion fields with main character and featuring.--Tangerineduel 16:29, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

Unknown names
That is actually what you should do. Just put the character in Category:Individuals with unknown names or Category:Humans with unknown names. Also put the individual in whatever additional categories also suit them (not just the unknown name category I mean). Also check out the two categories for the general convention and what not. If there's more than one scientist then it would be 'Female Scientist (Brain Drain)' etc. --Tangerineduel 15:41, September 19, 2009 (UTC)

Comic strip characters category
No is the short answer. As all categories that apply to in-universe things are also of an in-universe nature. So referring to them as 'characters' totally destroys that. Additionally (theoretically) if we had a 'comic strip character' category it would necessitate having a TV story category, audio story category etc and you can imagine how big and uncontrollable they would become.

You can include the information on the category page, just under the character's names as indented bullet points. (As is done with some comic strips, though mostly on the books/short stories see something like The Scarlet Empress) --Tangerineduel 16:12, September 20, 2009 (UTC)

Book category
Just a quick heads up I just did some category sorting. The basic category is only for in-universe books referenced within the series, whereas things like novels, reference books, etc. go into one of the Tie-In Books categories. I think I've caught all of them, but in your travels if you happen to see a "Real World" book stuck into the basic Book category (unless of course it's referenced in an episode or book, i.e. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, you might want to do a further category sort. 23skidoo 14:37, September 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid the only cover image I've seen of 30 Years of Time Travel is the little thumbnail in the Howe's Transcendental Toybox book (which incidentally gives exact release dates for many of the Virgin and BBC Books releases, among others - I haven't added the dates to the book articles yet, but have added them to the various years timelines (1999, 2002, etc). 23skidoo 03:32, September 25, 2009 (UTC)