Welcome to the Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who Wiki! We have have several help pages to help you with various tasks on this wiki. See also Fandom Help; many of the answers provided there are also applicable to this wiki site.
Getting started
The following are tutorials on some of the most basic aspects of editing articles of wiki editing in general:
Going deeper
These tutorials examine some more advanced topics, with special emphasis on things specific to this particular wiki. All editors, regardless of their familiarity with wiki editing, are encouraged to read these articles.
- How to use preloadable formats
- How to use Wiki markup
- How to use magic words
- What's a namespace?
- How to create and submit a background image
Policies, guidelines and information for contributors
If you're going to edit here — and we hope that you do! — you need to understand the formatting rules and guidelines we've stablished. These rules may be fiddly, but they greatly help the site have a uniform and more professional look. One of your first stops as an editor should be our Manual of Style, followed swiftly by a visit to our layout guides.
Information for contributors
- What the Tardis Data Core is not
- Point of view
- Copyrights
- Copyright tags
- List of prefixes
- Recent changes - List of edits made to this wiki.
- Resources
- Templates
Nominations pages
Some features of the site — typically elements seen on the front page are put up for specicfic discussion at one of several nominations pages. Here's a list of them, so you can get in on the conversation!
Help pages
- Signature
- Namespace
- Background images
- Editing
- Logging in
- Magic words
- New page
- Preloadable formats
- Wiki markup
- Avatars
- Game of Rassilon
- Files
- Pipe switch
- Spell checking
- Interlanguage links
- Spelling cheat card
- Toolbar
- Notifications
- Special pages
- Beyond the basics
- User access levels
- MyTools
- Google maps
- Global CSS and JS
- Glossary
- Wikia copyrights
- Archiving talk pages
- Changing your username
- Close my account
- Wikia IRC channels
- Edit conflict
- Facebook Connect
- Bypass your cache
- Calendar
- Ownership
- Spam
- Page history
- Prohibited content
- Chat
- Prefixes
- Galleries
- Galleries and slideshows/wikitext
- Moving pages
- Redirect
- Image cheat card
- Interwiki shortcuts
- ISBN
- Disambiguation term
- Tables
- Math
- Message Wall
- I'm blocked
- Supported browsers
- Spell checking with a Mac
- Spell checking with Firefox
- Spell checking with Chrome
- Spell checking with Opera
- YouTube extension
- Video Embed Tool
- Related Videos
- HTML
- Preferences
- Followed pages
- Talk pages
- User rights
- VisualEditor
- Assuming good faith
- DMCA takedown notice
- Categories
- Maps
- Template classification
- Discussions
- Source editor
- Editing
- Copyright
- Personal CSS and JS
- Don't feed the trolls
Policies
- Video policy
- Protection policy
- Point of view
- Archiving policy
- Blocking policy
- Chat policy
- Deletion policy
- Discussion policy
- Disambiguation
- Edit wars are good for absolutely nothing
- Interlanguage links
- Signature policy
- Spelling
- User images
- User pages
- Username policy
- Canon policy
- Valid sources
- Tardis Manual
- Thumbnail size
- Manual of style
- Wikipedia policy
- Edit summary
- Image use policy
- Neutral point of view
- We're Wikipedia's evil twin
- Images and perspective
- Changing policy
- Avatars
- No personal attacks
- User rights
- Vandalism policy
- Game of Rassilon rules
- Spelling we've agreed by discussion
- Shortcuts
- Image policies
- Desktop is definitive
- When do local rules prevail?
- Plagiarism
- Background images
- Infobox policies
- Editing policies
- Spoiler policies
- Copyright tags
- Don't wikify your own material
- Guidelines for administrators
- Merging policy
- Subpage policy
- What Tardis Wiki is not
Index lists
Fora (or, if you like, forums)
Spoiler free
- Reference Desk - Question-and-answer forum about narrative or behind-the-scenes elements. Our version of the Doctor Who Answers wiki.
- Panopticon - Policy and procedure relating to the maintenance and development of the Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who Wiki.
- Discontinuity index - A collection of discussions specifically related to the discontinuous narrative elements in individual stories. Got a plot hole? This is the place for you.
Spoilers allowed
- The Howling - A place to freely discuss and speculate, without having to worry about the restrictions of our spoiler policy.