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Happy editing! Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 02:05, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Just dropping a line regarding Special:Diff/1232488936. The pipe was basically in preparation for a pending move where the baseline ABC News would be moved and converted to a disambiguation page (differentiating ABC News (Australia) among others (Talk:ABC_News#Requested_move_18_June_2024). Anyway, it looks like this might get reversed (User_talk:BilledMammal#ABC_News_move), making this moot, but I just wanted to explain. -2pou (talk) 00:18, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2pou: Oof. I've spent a little bit of time reading up on this situation now. Can open, worms everywhere. Leaving aside the specifics, I'd just like to say that a more descriptive edit summary than 'pipe' would have helped avoid my reverting your edit (and subsequently my revert being reverted by another editor). Something like 'Redirecting following closed move discussion at PAGE', say. Then - regardless of any rights or wrongs - I would at least have seen enough reason to leave until the dust settles, as were. This is only a suggestion; if you look at my edit history you'll see it comes from the basis that I'm a bit fan of clear and descriptive edit summaries. Best regards, JustAnotherCompanion (talk) 19:17, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor Who SDCC Panel

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It appears my edit summary was cut off in the page history so I Just wanted to provide the full edit summary I had written here really fast: WP:ROUTINE is a notability guideline for articles on events, that doesn't fall within the scope of this article as it's not about an event. This is confirmed by the part of WP:N that says "notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article." Note the part of routine that says "events [...] may be better covered as part of another article", this is that other article. ROUTINE would only apply to this if we were perhaps writing an article called "Doctor Who at the 2024 Comic Con". Regardless, it's not routine as the last DW SDCC panel was in 2018. The relevant notability page for series 14 would be WP:NTV (which albeit, is an essay not a guideline, so WP:N technically). Notability guidelines purely cover whether the article is worthy for a topic, not for the content within said article once notability is established. TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:46, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WIkiProject Doctor Who Newsletter: July 2024

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The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume II, Issue I — July 2024
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who

Okay–ooh. New teeth newsletter. That's weird...

Hello!

Welcome to the first regenerated issue of The Space-Time Telegraph, the official newsletter of WikiProject Doctor Who. We hope it finds you well in your safe travels across the Whoniverse! This newsletter was founded in 2008 and seemed to get lost in the time vortex quite quickly. Thanks to the Doctor dragging Sutekh through the time vortex and bringing life by bringing death to death (yeah... I'm a little confused too), it seems to have regenerated. The writing staff hopes to bring you future editions quarterly.
For this first edition, we have created an updated version of our mailing list that includes any active editors who previously had their usernames included in our participants list. If you do not wish to receive future editions, please remove your name from the mailing list. If you no longer wish to participate in the project, please also remove your name from the participants list.
I think that's enough about the newsletter for now. Let's dive into interesting things happening within the Doctor Who side of Wikipedia. Geronimooooo.....

Big Spike in Productivity

During 2024, the project has scored 8 GAs, 2 FLs and a GT, up from last year's 4 GAs and a GT. Several additional things are in the pipeline, with a bunch of things currently having been nominated with some mix of OlifanofmrTennant, TheDoctorWho, and Pokelego999 having their names attached to them. Allow me to look into the nominees.
  1. Series 14: As of July 18th, every single episode has been sent to GAN, with "Boom", "73 Yards", and "The Devil's Chord" having made it to GA.
  2. 2023 Specials: Early in the year, as part of trying to not lose the WikiCup, Ollie sent "The Star Beast" (still salty about the move) to GAN. It was reviewed by frequent collaborator (fly high) of hers, but failed. She then fixed it up and sent it back where it passed. Later "The Giggle" was expanded and sent to GA, followed shortly by "Wild Blue Yonder". WBY received help by JustAnotherCompanion, a pretty fresh user. This other companion chose not to be listed as co-nom. A page was created for "Destination: Skaro" and quickly got GA status.
  3. The Daleks' Master Plan was also sent to GAN by Rhain. It passed to join Rhain's other First Doctor content, being the fourth season three article to get the green check.
  4. Peter Capaldi: The filmography and newly created awards of Capaldi were both sent to FLC and passed. Capaldi's main page was sent to GA, though due to some minor incompetence on the part of the nominator it was failed.

Proposals to the WikiProject

A recent proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Doctor Who suggested potential improvements and suggestions for the main page of the project, as well as discussions about the project overall. The proposals are as follows:
  1. The Task Forces section should be removed due to inactivity in the Torchwood Task Force, and a lack of significant interest in creating further Task Forces.
  2. The freenode channel no longer works and should be removed due to most discussion taking place on site.
  3. Due to the low quality of Lungbarrow and Jubilee despite being sample articles, these articles should either be removed as samples or improved. Additionally, the "sample device" has a very small application field, and should be removed from the sample articles section.
  4. An updates infobox should be included, similarly to those used by Wikipedia:VGCHAR.
  5. Radio Times's Doctor Who sections should be included in the references section due to their benefits for the project sourcing wise.
  6. The Deletion Discussion archive should be removed, or have work invested in updating it, due to its lack of updates.

If you feel you have any thoughts or suggestions on these matters, or on any other matters pertaining to the project and its main page, feel free to chime in the ongoing discussion.

Discussions of Note

A move discussion is currently underway on whether or not Doctor Who series 14 should be moved to Doctor Who season 1 (2024). The discussion also involves conversation on a few other adjacent articles. If you have an opinion on the matter please read over the discussion or leave comments.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your heads'-up, and your kind words. Goodness, you've done a lot of work and checking on it. I would think the advert tag can come off now, if you agree? I'll have another look through it next week, though not sure I can add anything to your very thorough effort. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 00:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, JustAnotherCompanion. You have new messages at DonQuixote's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

DonQuixote (talk) 00:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing others' comments

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WIth regard to this edit, please mind WP:OTHERSCOMMENTS. If you have concerns, you may rise them at AN/I (see this thread). Gitz (talk) (contribs) 22:52, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You posted this message while I was in the process of writing a message on your own talk page. For clarity's sake, I will copy part of my response here that makes it clear that this was not a WP:OTHERSCOMMENTS violation.
OTHERSCOMMENTS gives an example of appropriately editing others' comments saying Removing prohibited material such as libel; legal threats; personal details; content that is illegal under US law; or violations of copyright, living persons, or anti-promotional policies. (emphasis mine).
JustAnotherCompanion (talk) 22:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Claiming that the sentence If Khelif has DSDs, then writing a Wikipedia article suggesting that she doesn't is not only poor WP editing, but also another way to further victimise her violates WP:BLP, and therefore should be removed from a talk page discussion, is absurd. Several RSes mention or discuss that possibility, so we should be allowed to deal with it and take it into account, if we want to write an informed and balanced BLP. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 23:08, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WIkiProject Doctor Who: September 2024 Newsletter

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The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume II, Issue II — September 2024
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who

You like Doctor Who? What's his name then?

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the second issue of the new newsletter! Following the success of the first newsletter we are back to write more stuff.

Articles for deletion
Several articles have been nominated for deletion, such as Time War (Doctor Who), and several articles have been deleted, or merged or redirected, especially those relating to books, due to lack of WP:SIGCOV and WP:NBOOK. Editors can always help either by participating in the deletion discussions (which are noted on the project page), adding to such articles, or bringing attention to other such articles through AfD or the WikiProject talk page, to aid in clean-up.

Notice of Draft Articles
A new Doctor Who spin-off was announced at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, called The War Between the Land and the Sea, and will feature old and new Whoniverse characters working for UNIT as they battle the Sea Devils. The main space article currently redirects to Whoniverse, but collaboration is currently underway in a draft article. As filming on this miniseries has recently begun, its relocation to the mains space will presumably take place soon per the recommendations laid out at WP:NTV.


There is also a draft article in progress for the upcoming 2024 Christmas special. While this article won't be moved until the episode airs, any new contributions are welcome.

Doctor Who News
A small number of editors have recently raised questions regarding the reliability of Doctor Who News. This website is particularly used for information regarding viewing figures and the Appreciation Index of most episodes as well as some news information. If there is a better source for any information supported by this website, it should be replaced in good faith.


A full consensus on whether or not to remove the information that can't be supported by a different source has not yet been reached. Any editor who has opinions on this matter should contribute to the discussion on the WikiProject talk page.

Continued Progress Towards Good/Featured Content
There has been lots of progress made towards recognized articles in the last two months, related to such diverse categories as series, specials, lists and episodes A sub-page has also been added to the WikiProject, to list any possible goals we can aim towards.

Proposals Regarding the State of Fictional Elements Articles in the WikiProject

Several proposals have been laid out regarding fictional elements in the WikiProject, which includes fictional characters, locations, and more. Due to a concerning quality state regarding the large majority of them, several methods of tackling them in order to improve these articles' quality for the future have been proposed. The primary three proposals are as follows:
1. A priority list should be made to determine what articles are most pressing and in need of improvement in the WikiProject overall. Focus would be put onto important subjects and articles in a state of dubious notability that would make them viable for deletion processes such as AfD.
2. A group of articles is selected for improvement, which are ones deemed most relevant to the WikiProject for the future. Any lesser important subjects can be sidelined and worked on as editors see fit.
3. A long term goal is made to improve all elements. This will come at the caveat of taking significantly longer and requiring more heavy participation than the above two proposals, but would guarantee a slow and steady way to solve the issue.
If any editors are interested in chiming into the conversation and sharing their piece on how this should be handled, or if any editors wish to help with this proposal and improve fictional elements articles, then feel free to share thoughts at the discussion's section on the article's talk page.

Contributors

"I'm not appalled by it" - The New New York Times

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:41, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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