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'''Contents'''
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*[[#Dimensions|What should be the shape and size of my pictures?]]
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*[[#Type|What kinds of pictures are acceptable?]]
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*[[#Colourised|Are colourised pictures allowed?]]
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*[[#User|User images]]
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*[[#Other|Other notes]]
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! style="text-align: center; colspan="3" | <span id="Dimensions">What should be the shape and size of my pictures?</span>
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Minimum width''' of any uploaded image
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''292px''' preferred, '''250px''' the ''absolute minimum'' <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Width of infobox pictures'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|250px. That's it. Nothing wider or narrower. Just 250px.
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Standard Size Pictures#Archivist's notes|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Thumbnail widths'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Should generally not be defined '''at all'''. To place a thumb on a page, use language like this:
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<center>
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<code><nowiki>[[file:Name.jpg|thumb|right|caption]]</nowiki></code>
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Please ''do not specify'' a width or height for a thumbnail.
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Thumbnail size|tech note]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Preferred [[wikipedia:aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]]'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Something approaching 16:9 (widescreen)<br /><hr>''except in the case of covers, which should be cropped to the precise width of the cover, and have no margin.''
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Minimum [[wikipedia:aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]]'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|4:3 (standard TV aspect ratio)<br /><hr>Anything ''less'' than 4:3, but particularly anything with a height greater than the width, should be avoided. Please carefully crop your images to avoid "tall" pictures, or they may be summarily deleted.
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Total file size'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Ordinary screenshots should '''never''' be more than 100kb; most are completely fine at 20-40kb. <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[tardis:image use policy|Our image use policy]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Acceptable [[wikipedia:file format|file format]]s'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|We '''only''' allow: .jpg (sometimes called JPEG), .png and .svg. That's it. There are no more; .gif and other files will be summarily '''deleted'''.
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* .jpg '''only''' for photographs
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* .png and .svg '''preferred''' for line drawings or when you need transparency
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Wikipedia:WP:PIFU|Wikipedia's discussion of the virtues of .jpg, .png, and .svg]], [[forum:Tech note: Image use policy change|forum tech note]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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! style="text-align: center; colspan="3" | <span id="Type">What kinds of pictures are acceptable?</span>
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Sexual or violent imagery'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Any''' image '''which has been presented in a licensed DWU episode''' may be posted to our wiki, ''regardless of its content.'' <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Image appropriateness issue|Forum discussion]], [[T:NOT SFW]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Publicity images'''<br>on in-universe or story pages
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Never allowed. This means: no wallpapers, no images of characters or objects unless you personally take them ''from the body of an episode''. <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]], [[T:DWUP]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Publicity images'''<br>on out-of-universe pages
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Acceptable, but not preferred. Generally, we want to be able to see what the actor looks like in their everyday life
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|Implied as the converse of rule agreed at [[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Concept art'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Unacceptable''' in in-universe sections of articles, but '''acceptable''' in "Behind the scenes" sections. Concept art is specifically considered out-of-universe imagery, and so cannot illustrate in-universe concepts.<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Out-of-universe images, in-universe articles|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Cover art'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Acceptable as illustration of last resort. When there are no ''other'' images of a thing — because the thing exists solely in audio or prose stories — a cover image may be used.<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?#Apparent inconsistency in current policy|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Fan-made images''' <br />
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Not allowed in the main namespace at all, either on in-universe or real world pages'''. ''An exception to this ruling is simple act of combining two or more screenshots into a representative collage.'' <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[T:NO FANFIC|NO FANFIC]] (for the rule); archives of [[Talk:The Master]] (for the exception)
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Photos from Loose Cannon reconstructions'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Unacceptable''' in any situation. No non-BBC reconstruction materials allowed at all, save for non-John Cura telesnaps from "The Feast of Steven"<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Use of Loose Cannon Reconstructions images|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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! style="text-align: center; colspan="3" | <span id="Colourised">Are colourised pictures allowed?</span>
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Colourised photography'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Not allowed''' under '''any''' circumstances<hr />''By extension, colour images converted to monochrome are also not allowed in articles, except for those few Third Doctor episodes or parts of episodes which are missing in colour.
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Images Policy|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Colourised ''comic'' images'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Not allowed''' in infoboxes, but '''allowed''' in "Behind the scenes" sections to demonstrate different colourists' approaches.'''<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:No colourised pics, but what about comics?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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! style="text-align: center; colspan="3" | <span id="User">User images</span>
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Number of images''' <br />for your personal use
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''3 total at any one time''' in all namespaces prefixed by the word "user". So, 3 images total to use on user, user talk, and user blog pages.<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Tardis:user image policy|user image policy]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Total file size allowed''' <br />for your personal use
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''~ 500mb'''. All three images ''combined'' should be no more than 500mb. We aren't a file hosting service. <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Tardis:user image policy|user image policy]] and [[T:NOT HOST]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Allowed type of user images''' <br />
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Generally unrestricted'''. However, images which advertise products, philosophies, or '''anything''' (even things related to ''Doctor Who'') are not allowed. Equally, pornography and/or excessively gory or violent imagery is forbidden, unless it is an un-retouched image taken directly from a DWU source. <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Tardis:User image policy#Content restrictions|user image policy]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|-style="padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Your own art on your own user pages'''
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|'''Allowed, but you should consider the implications carefully.''' All submissions to the wiki are released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. It ''may'' damage your own financial interests to upload your own work here.<br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Tardis:user image policy#Your own work|user image policy]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''A character's eyes'''<br>(applies to in-universe articles)
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|If the image is in an infobox, or simply the first picture on the page, it's '''preferred''', but not required, that the subject's eyes are looking '''left'''. This will direct ''readers''{{'}} eyes to the article. The character should not be looking directly into the camera, as this eye-line normally indicates a press photo. <br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Character infobox image standards?|Forum discussion]]
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|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black"
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|style="background-color:#ececec; padding:10px;"|'''Captions'''<br />on in-universe pages
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|style="background-color:#5a5480; color:#fff; padding:10px;"|Captions must be written in an in-universe way but in the present tense. A source for the picture is required at the end of the caption, in the format <code><nowiki>([[Prefix]]: ''[[Story name]]'')</nowiki></code><br />
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|style="background-color:#b1b0c7; padding:10px;"|[[Forum:Thumbnails|Forum discussion]]
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Revision as of 03:53, 18 December 2015

Yanno those words in parentheses after some titles? It's important that we're all using the same words to describe the same thing. A (TV story) must be a (TV story) and not a (television story).
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A disambiguation term or dab term is the bit of a page title which is in parentheses. In the page title Castrovalva (TV story), the dab term is (TV story). For the benefit of your fellow editors and readers, it's important that these terms be consistently applied. It also greatly helps in the writing of templates that have to handle story titles, as well as robotic maintenance of the wiki, if the same dab terms are used to describe the same types of things.

The chart below summarises the dab terms which we use across the site.

Do use When you want to title Don't use
(TV story) televised narratives of any length[1] (episode), (television story), (television)[2]
(audio story) any sort of audio narrative, regardless of length (audio), (audio release)
(novel) out-of-universe discussion about a DWU novel; e.g. Hope (novel) any term which uses the book series along with the word novel, like (EDA novel), (NSA novel) or the like — except when there is more than one novel series to use the title.[3]
(book)
(film) 		in-universe discussion about books and films within the DWU; this matches the in-universe category, books and films Very rarely used, as most in-universe books, like A Christmas Carol have precedence, and therefore don't require disambiguation. For example, if both the book and movie Casino Royale were discussed in the DWU, you'd have Casino Royale (book) and Casino Royale (film).
(comic story) any story that uses sequential art, of any length up to, and including the original graphic novel[4] (comic), (comic strip)
(graphic novel) any sort of collected edition of sequential art, or sequential art which was originally published without the use of staples, or, if bound with staples, at a length over 47 pages. For the sake of consistency, we shall adopt the British definition of graphic novel for the main titles of pages.[5]
(omnibus) when you want to title a page discussing an omnibus. The most likely use of this is with IDW products. IDW omnibuses are collections of IDW trade paperbacks/graphic novels, which themselves collect IDW comic stories. (omnibus edition), (IDW omnibus), (Pinnacle omnibus)
(short story) out-of-universe articles about DWU short stories
(documentary) any sort of video documentary
(home video) any VHS or DVD releases of fictional narratives, regardless of production company (video), (TV story), (DVD story), (VHS story), (BBV video), (RP video), etc.
(CON episode) Doctor Who Confidential episodes (Doctor Who Confidential episode)
(species) in-universe species (race) should be avoided, as it has dual meanings
  1. ↑ The exception here are episodes of Doctor Who featuring William Hartnell that share the same names as serials. So, An Unearthly Child (episode) is acceptable as a way to distinguish the first episode of DW from the first serial'.
  2. ↑ If two different television series have stories of the same name, then disambiguate by using the prefix from Tardis:List of prefixes. For instance, if there were an SJA story named Inferno, then it would be Inferno (SJA TV story) and the DW story would have to move to Inferno (DW TV story). If two episodes of the same television series have the same name, then disambiguate by the year of initial broadcast. As of 2012, neither has really happened, though there have been some close calls with respect to William Hartnell episodes. Still, if The Daleks were now known by its original production title of The Mutants, then it would be The Mutants (1963 TV story) and the Jon Pertwee story would be The Mutants (1972 TV story)
  3. ↑ The obvious exception to the rule is something like Twilight of the Gods which should use the disambig (MA novel) to distinguish it from the Bernice Summerfield novel of the same name, which should use (BNA novel). The "novel" might seem superfluous, but it helps readers unfamiliar with these rather obscure corners of the DWU to immediately recognize they're novels. Any use of one of our wiki's prefixes should be followed by a word that will help any user to know instantly which medium the work is in.
  4. ↑ What's meant by the original graphic novel? A comic story that was originally printed on its own and bears no reprints. So it's The Only Good Dalek (comic story), but The Iron Legion (graphic novel).
  5. ↑ The term "graphic novel" has tremendous variability, especially as between American and British use. As a purely arbitrary matter, all things which might be considered trade paperbacks or collected editions shall be disambiguated "(graphic novel)". Yes, technically, we should be using the American "trade paperback" to disambig IDW output, but simplicity wins over accuracy in this case. We need everything disambiguated the same way.
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