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Hello
Nice find. I think it's a really good idea, so I'll try and get round to it at some point either today or tomorrow. Mini-mitch\talk 11:02, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Images and gallery
Hey, as nice as you image uploads are, we tend to use the rectangular images rather than portraits as the latter are too tall. Additionally, in reference to your "Eye Patch Lady" gallery, please see Talk:Eye Patch Lady as it is being challenged. ThanksSkittles the hog-- Talk 11:14, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

When uploading an image, please select a licence from the drop down menu. For Doctor Who and Confidential, you should be selecting BBC screenshot. Not doing so is a breech of Tardis:Image use policy, so could you please go back to your images and add to them? ThanksSkittles the hog-- Talk 11:38, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Just click edit on the images page and add Obviously it varies depending on what the image is but that covers all you uploads up to this point. Thanks for helping out.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:43, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

English
British, as Who is a British show. If you speak another form of English, I would advise spell checking your work before posting, and make sure the spell check is set to English (UK). If your confident you know the differences, or if you are British, just go for it.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:50, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm English.Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:52, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Images again
Okay. Say it with me now "rectangular images and licences". Please don't forget.Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:11, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. If you going to replace and image simply go to its page, scroll down a bit and select "Upload a new version of this file". This replaces it without there being a spare image and you wont need to edit it in.Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:16, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, wikia have major problems with their image servers. I contacted them about this a while ago but they've done nothing. Just upload it normally, WITH A LICENCE:)Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:32, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

LICENCES!!Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:09, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

I've already done it, I just wanted to remind you in a... helpful way. I see you've done it with some images, but not others. Anyway, thanks for improving so many of the images, most were a bit dodgy before.Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:12, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Main page slider
What dom you mean by a main page slider, and can you give me some other wikis which currently use one? Thanks Mini-mitch\talk 17:24, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * It actually looks like a really good idea. At the moment, I think it could be used for the lastest television stories, etc. I'm totally behind the idea. What you should do now is raise it in the forums, and see what other Users think. Great idea! Mini-mitch\talk 17:51, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * As I have said, I do think it should be featured on the main page. However, you do need to raise it here, so you can see what other Users think and can even vastly improve the idea. Mini-mitch\talk 10:06, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Images
It's a technical fault that I to am experiencing. I do not know the cause, nor if it is a widespread problem, but it will automatically rectify when the image stops screwing around. I notice above that you are interested in image sliders, I recall that this was attempted but the specifications of this wiki stopped it working correctly. Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:45, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

Main page
It's designed that way. Putting the slider on wont work anyway so don't try it as it will essentially be vandalism, albeit unintended. Skittles the hog-- Talk 11:40, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Images in navboxes
Hey, thanks for trying to improve upon file:TenThinner.jpg. What you couldn't have realised was that that image was incredibly carefully cropped. It took hours to find the correct dimensions. In navboxes, it's not just a matter of getting an 80px image. You have to make sure it's not so long that it draws out the individual bits of information on the right-hand columns. TenThinner is crafted so as to eliminate vertical white space between the various sections of information. Your image added over 2 inches to the overall length of the Tennant navbox.

And it's not just a matter of lopping off the bottom and making the height match TenThinner.jpg. The other design ethic is that the faces can't bleed off the edge of the frame; otherwise they look huge. (Hair and hats are okay to bleed off one edge, but when you're cropping off sides of the actual fleshy part of the face, you're zoomed in way too close.)

That might sound like a weird restriction. But there's a good reason. When you open up all eleven navboxes, they all need to be relatively the same apparent focal distance from the viewer. That way, we avoid editorialising with our pictures. Using your image for Ten, it appeared as if we were emphasizing Ten — almost as if we were saying, "Ten is the Doctor; the rest are imposters."

If you'd like to try again — perhaps because you don't like the fact the current pic uses the tuxedo-clad Doctor instead of him in his more traditional suit — be my guest. I assume you still have the same base pic from which yours was cropped. I'd recommend that you pull back slightly on your crop, so that there are at least 10-20 pixels of background framing his face. Then cut it to the same length as the current TenThinner.jpg.

Then, please upload it as a new version of TenThinner.jpg. Don't upload it as a new file. We can then more easily flip back and forth between pics in the revision history.

Put a much simpler way, I've kinda done the hard work for you. We need a picture there that's exactly the dimensions of the current TenThinner.jpg. All you have to do is crop your picture to precisely that size.

Because your picture can't be salvaged for use on this page, I'm deleting it. But I do encourage you to change the pic on DWTV, as long as you follow the instructions above. 23:13:43 Fri 03 Jun 2011


 * Just to keep ya in the loop — your suggested Ten pic is now on Companions of the Tenth Doctor. It proved a really great pic, once cropped into the right dimensions.  Thanks much for suggesting it with your earlier uploads!   05:31:48 Tue 14 Jun 2011


 * Hey, I've reverted your latest attempt at making TenThinner.jpg into the Fires of Pompeii image. You didn't follow my instructions, above, so I'm gonna have to restrict access to this file.  I've noticed, too, that you rather whimsically changed the wikipediainfo file.  Therefore, all maintenance images have now been locked.  The thing is, when you change image files on widely-used templates, it creates unnecessary server load.  Every time they get changed, the server has to update the image on all the pages that have the template.  And I've already gone through the period of discovery on these templates.  There's no need to change dimensions on any of them.  If you want to replace, do so at the exact dimensions that the files currently have.  I advised you of that last time, and you didn't do it at either of the two images cited above.  Thus since none of these images actually need changing, I'm taking the further step of locking them.


 * I don't want to completely discourage your creativity, however. If you'd like to suggest new images, please do so on the relevant file talk page and then alert me to the changes you've made.  I'll then assess its technical qualities.  Again, I'd point out that you do have a good eye for photos; the picture you found has been placed on one of the three main navboxes that use a picture of Ten. But you seem to be lacking the technical skill of cropping photos to an exact measurement, or of seeing the subtle effect different dimensions can have on a template.


 * I should say, as well, that the Pompeii image won't be making it to the DWTV page, as it's best to have different images of the Doctors at different pages, just so we can keep track of which image is on which page. This wasn't my original concept of the navbox images, but it was deemed necessary after your last attempt at altering the DWTV image inadvertently affected the "companions of" navbox.  Thus, Ten now has quite adequate coverage in his three main "looks": tux, spacesuit and traditional pinstripes.  12:55:35 Tue 21 Jun 2011


 * May I ask why you're so determined to get rid of the tux image? It performs the task adequately.  While I think it's great you've hit the mark on the dimensions of this newest submission, I don't see it as necessarily "better".   Why do you think it's better?  I think it's a little too similar to the image you submitted that's now at Companions of the Tenth Doctor.  I'd rather have something that gives an "alternate" Ten look, almost certainly one where he's not wearing the standard Ten greatcoat.


 * As for locking down templates and other maintenance images, that's not likely to be lifted any time soon. There's just no reason for changing those images.  The locking is only coincidental with your attempts to change them, but you weren't the cause.  I had meant to do that months ago, when they were created but I didn't understand a certain bot functionality as well as I do now.  In other words, you didn't trigger the lockdown, so your understanding of a technical error you made doesn't mean that they'll suddenly be unlocked.    As always, though, you do have good "picture sense" and a clear desire to make things better around here.  So if you get an idea about an improvement you'd like to make to one of the stub tags, let me know.   We just don't want to be playing "musical images" with these things and creating a bunch of unnecessary server load.   22:00:02 Wed 22 Jun 2011

Gallery and Images
Sorry about you gallery getting deleted, I tried to save it. At least the section was salvaged. Just wanted to remind you about licences. Please add them to all files you upload. Ta Skittles the hog-- Talk 18:38, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Categories
Please note that the categories you have recently separated also need to have their subcategories separated with the appearances filed by media. Please ensure that categories you create are placed into the correct categories in the category tree you can find flowing down from Category:Floor 500. Thanks Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:54, June 14, 2011 (UTC)

Reverting edits
Sorry to nag, but in future, please remember to justify revisions. Such summaries as "I'm not accepting that image" are not really valid as they don't actually contain a reason. Just something to bear in mind. Thanks Skittles the hog-- Talk 18:05, June 16, 2011 (UTC)

Masters template
Why do you believe they're not of equal importance?

I would note that they are, they all cover incarnations of the Master that this wiki covers and considers canon as part of our canon policy. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:01, June 17, 2011 (UTC)

Nice find. I think it's a really good idea, so I'll try and get round to it at some point either today or tomorrow. Mini-mitch\talk 16:23, June 19, 2011 (UTC)

Mini-mitch\talk 16:23, June 19, 2011 (UTC)

Templates
A few things. The Master template, please leave everything as it is. I have locked editing to the template and reverted all edits to how it originally way until the matter is resolved on the talk page (Talk:The Master).

Also, please leave the template for Romanda as it is, it is her third incarnation, and should be treated in the same size as the other two, just because she is not seen onscreen, does not mean she any less important, which is what it is suggesting.

Thirdly, (and really a sidenote) you maybe thinking "if everything on the template treated the same, what about the Doctor's template". In this case, it is different because they are not incartions of the Doctor (as Romanda and the Master's incartions are), but are related to the Doctor, and are suggested to be very strongly related to another incartion. To be honest, they should have thier own template (Other incarnations of the Doctor).

Lastly, there is a forum discussion about the Almost People and A Good Man Goes to War. It discusses whether or nor the episodes link into each other making it 2x two paters and 1x 4 parter. Personally, it suggests a four parter, and it looks like it would be (as it high unlikely there would be an other adventures in between). You should use this to voice your opinion the episodes. Thanks. Mini-mitch\talk 16:23, June 19, 2011 (UTC)

Bots
Sorry, I haven't a clue. I imagine a quick Google search could find you your answer though. Skittles the hog-- Talk 18:01, June 19, 2011 (UTC)

Justify
Once again, I must advise you to correctly justify your edits. On this occasion, I am referring to your edits at Template:Cyberman variants. I justified why the better image should be on there (and it is the better image, you said so yourself), and you reverted it based on "Do they now?" Correct justification is important on this wiki. Thank you for reading. Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:22, June 21, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for being so agreeable. Skittles the hog-- Talk 09:56, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

Yes, well I think I'll retract any pleasantries after such a reply. Skittles the hog-- Talk 14:56, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad you approve. :) Skittles the hog-- Talk 15:01, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

Categories
Please do not separate the Silurian and Sea Devils categories. It was the consensus some time ago that they should be linked. I do not have an exact link to this discussion so this may seem like a weak argument, but if you still want to separate them please propose to do so at the forums.

I deleted the categories you created as I do not think they are needed and they were incorrectly made, with the category linking back upon itself. I have mentioned this to you before so please take extra care. Thanks Skittles the hog-- Talk 14:11, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

Like I said, open a discussion on it. Skittles the hog-- Talk 15:51, June 23, 2011 (UTC)