User talk:The Librarian

Hi,
Just to let anyone know I've currently started on Doctor Who Magazine related pages which I hope will be comprehensive (I promise I'll catch up soon).I had to start somewhere but if anyone has suggestions or requests for details they would find useful / interesting or both, please let me know.Hope I can help! The Librarian 01:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Update: because of the number of links within the magazine pages I've also turned my attention to; I've still a lot to learn and will be revisiting the pages later at some point to fill in some of the gaps so please bare with me, unless you get there first! and thats before I get to the In-Universe stuff!! Enjoy The Librarian 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Other related releases (including specials, graphic novels, poster mags, American comics, etc.)
 * Listings and coverage of the Doctors comic strip stories (including DW Classic Comics and TV Comic)
 * Doctor Who Annuals and Yearbooks
 * Target novels (which are extensively reviewed and included in features)
 * Oh and big thanks to Tangerineduel

My Useful Links

 * Tardis:Publication Index List
 * Category:Prose stories
 * Category:Novel series
 * Category:Reference Books
 * Category:Target Novels

Reminders to Myself (following clean-up) The Librarian 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Brackets after everything look messy
 * Include ==External links== at the end of every page
 * Have a look at similar pages first!
 * Sets of pages (e.g. TV, Books, CD. Audio and Anthology pages) have an established look
 * Bullet points(*) VS short indentations
 * Dont use too many indentations
 * (` `) italics
 * (` ` `) bold
 * `br` in greater/less than brackets is used to create a new line of the same formatted text
 * REFERENCES relate to in-universe comments and observations.
 * CONTINUITY relates to mainly out of universe comments.
 * Previous/Next boxes in the infoboxes relate to publication order if not sequentially part of a set. Additional terms used could include OCCURS BEFORE / AFTER
 * MINOR EDITS should only be ticked when there is no new or additional information added to a page.
 * Regarding WORD editing:
 * "..." does not translate well!


 * Use the `what links here` on the top left column to explore the topic.
 * Do a search for variants of a missing link (e.g. early episode titles)
 * Article> history> compare edits. Use the compare option to see changes made in the history and pick up tips on punctuation etc.
 * | is used to separate the linking page to what actually appears as text
 * keep the brackets tight!
 * ? little reference numbers
 * (? start and end bit)
 * with a nowiki /nowiki to conceal it!


 * Its probably easier to do than I think!

DWA 45
Hi. I was filling in a page DWA Issue 45 and then realized you're working through these numerically... naturally I realized this right after I saved it. I'm sorry - I didn't mean to step on your toes! I was actually copying the format from one of your pages, although I didn't have as much information as you add. So hopefully it won't be too hard for you to edit the rest of the way. Also, I couldn't figure out a graceful way to include both covers, but I don't really think they need separate issue pages... -- Wendy (talk ) 05:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I just clicked on the article and that format looks pretty damn neat. --Stardizzy? 19:59, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

hi!
this message will repeat what I just said in the forum, but I just created a new infobox for you to use.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox_Novelisation

feel free to change this in any way whatsoever.

also, On Target makes for a good site for external links on each other.

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm

finally take note of "Publisher's Blurb" versus "Publishers Blurb". --Stardizzy? 19:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Reply to Tangerineduel's talk page
(I'm repeating your message, and adding in my own bullet points, just because it's easier to respond to the individual questions like that.)

Hi, you've been busy I see! I've been away awhile working on some other stuff, but noticed a couple of things Im not sure about that I thought you might know more. Hope you're keeping well by the way!
 * Firstly 'Doctor Who Comic Strip Stories'. Whats with the new 'COMIC stub' (and why hasn't the stub got an appropriate drawn picture). And, why is it even marked as a stub, lacking information when it links to pages that offers far more information than could easily be viewed on one page? :: On the stub issue, I notice a lot of pages (including the Target novel pages for instance), have now got stubs on them. I understand that there is always more information that can be added (the nature of the wiki you once told me!) but surely when there is some significant amount of content stubs could be dispenced with, couldn't they?


 * Comic stub: A while back I begun clearing up the Category:Stub into some specific sub categories (of note there is Audio, Character, Comic, Prose, Real World and TV stub categories, it doesn't have a picture because the original stub didn't have a picture, it's meant to be a small note rather than a big one lie the Gone to Pot or cleanup tags, but in writing this have just checked and it now seems it has a picture...odd. --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Doctor Who Comic Strip Stories, it's actually doubly marked with a cleanup and stub, the cleanup because while the information is there it's a little jumbled and hard to read quickly. (I think I marked it, and was probably going to get around to it if no one else did). --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * On stubs in general, some pages don't necessarily need them, but most are constantly evolving, even the Target pages are still being edited and altered around as the wiki grows and whatever, but if you think a page doesn't need a stub take it off the page (many pages are just created and by default users put the stub marker on there). --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I realise the Battle in Time comic strips are abit individual at the moment but Battles in Times is something I've been looking at (as its due to be completed soon) and improving comic strip entry pages presentation is a key part of this. (hint: more graphics!).If BIT strips proves popular then I'll start working backwards on the others.
 * I thought it was discussed in the forum about creating separate pages for one-off minor characters in comic strips but someone seems to have created links to each little entry under the characters section of the page. Is their anyway of giving guidance on this?


 * Well...depends how big the characters are. They can all have their own pages if there's more than say...a sentence to say about them. As for the Battles in Time in general, the only thing I've been slightly concerned about is that they all have the same picture in the infobox, which seemed a little odd. (Battles in Time is one of the magazines which doesn't get sent down to Australia, and not one I'm inclined to get from the UK) So I leave the BiT in your (and others) hands and I just keep a vague eye on the overall view of it. --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * On another issue, a bit more general, (still a thicky with this wiki world LOL!)how is the longevity of content? I mean the content isn't likely to disappear overnight or becomes unusable because of ever-growing use and increased loading times...is it? I would hate to think that it turns out to be wasted time.
 * Anyway if you've time to reply I would appreciate it, and one other question, don't suppose you know of a page that is set up like a table with images on the left column do you? random searches for the format Im looking for haven't proved fruitful? Do you know anyone else on wiki who might be able to help provide what Im thinking of?
 * Bye for now, should see more content appearing in the next few months, feedback as usual welcome! Thanks


 * Well...Longevity of content...As long as a page's history is preserved (ie moving a page rather than copying the content) ever edit of the page will be preserved. If you're asking how long will all this info stick around in general, short answer is I don't know. However as this and all the other Wikias are part of Wikia Inc, which in turn is part of wikipedia, as long as wikipedia is hanging around this will probably keep going. If you're still curious/wanting to ask questions about the wikias in general as a whole big thingy (for which my answers will probably get more vague about) Head on over to the main wikia page Wikia.com, or go right to Wikia Community portal which has a Forum where you can ask these questions and (hopefully) get more detailed answers than the vague generalisations I can provide. --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * As for tables with images down one side, the BBC Ninth Doctor Adventures and BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures both have tables with images in them (the Tenth Doctor Adventures is centred, Ninth isn't), those should give you basis for the how to's of table creation.
 * I hope this has all helped, feel free to ask questions / clarification if I've rambled too much in one answer of something. --Tangerineduel 13:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)