Forum:Page Creation time

Do we actually have something set in stone for page creation? I looked through the spoiler policy and the manual of style and haven't found anything. Now that the current series of Doctor Who has aired, and with the new series of SJA airing next week, we should decide on when we can create page and have something physically written in our manual of style.

Looking through the past discussion, especially at Forum:When can we create "The Impossible Astronaut" page?, we have, currently, two options. We can create page after broadcast or we can create pages with (TV story) at the end of it. (The last would be rolled out across all formats, e.g. (audio story) etc)

If we do go for (TV story), I would also suggest that we can create the page before broadcast - either a week, five days or 24 hours before broadcast. The page would then be locked until after broadcast. I also feel that we should not protect the story pages after broadcast, and just open them up so anyone can edit them. This was done on trail during the autumn half of Doctor Who, and in mu opinion was overall successful (barring the slight hiccup we had after TWORS aired).

You should also know why we may want to add (TV story) or (comic story) or (audio story) to page titles. This is because we have been caught out in the past with the name of the episode or comic title appearing in the episode or comic. A famous example of this is The Pandorica Opens (TV story), which was created as The Pandorica Opens. We were caught by surprise when the later, which linked to the episode was the name of a painting and we had to spend time fixing the all the links.

However, if we wait till after broadcast, we know the correct title of the episode. A classic case of this was with The Vampires of Venice, which had been incorrectly named Vampires in Venice by the media and was the cause of much confusion.

So we need to decide if we want to wait till after broadcast or add (TV story) to the title meaning we could created before broadcast, and have the barebones of the article waiting till after broadcast. What does everyone else think/want? MM/ Want to talk? 22:23, October 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * My view is that we should wait until after broadcast of the relevant episode so as to avoid the sorts of problems that you mentioned. In the case of The Pandorica Opens though, I'd have kept the episode title as was and styled the page for the painting of the same name as "'The Pandorica Opens (painting)" but maybe that's just me. GusF talk to me 22:29, October 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think we should create pages before broadcast, on the day of airing. It's extremely rare that the media does incorrectly title episodes, and so that problem is almost non-existant. Also, if the addition of (TV story) to all titles went ahead, there'd be no need to wait.


 * On the topic of protecting pages, I feel that they should only be allowed to be edited by registered users after immediate broadcast. It minimises the risk of vandalism.


 * I added two headings -- "After broadcast" and "Before broadcast" -- to make things clearer. Feel free to edit or remove them. 22:44 Sat 10 Oct 2011