Portal talk:Doctor Who/Archive 1

Archive 1

Braces question

Ed - I just used the {{}}. You might want to check that out for cleanup at the source. --khaosworks 20:13, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Search question

Question: If someone types "Doctor Who" into the search box, should they be redirected to Doctor Who or to Wikiportal/Doctor Who? Bluap

Doctor Who. There's a link to the portal on the same page. --khaosworks 18:04, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Display

For me the two columns on this page are one under each other, with blank spaces to the side. Like this

CO
OC

Where C is a column and O a space.

Is this just my browser or what?

--bjwebb 15:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Looks fine on my browsers. Which browser are you using and on what operating system? --khaosworks 16:01, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Figured out what it is - my screen size. I'm on 800*600. Looked fine at 1024*768, but I prefer 800*600. Don't know what causees it though. If you could fix it I'd be gratefull. (My Browser is IE 6 on Windows but I don't think this is important) --bjwebb 16:11, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Odd, because it looks fine at 800x600 to me, and I viewed it both with Firefox and IE. Anyone else having a problem? --khaosworks 16:38, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Featured Article

Can I change the featured myself if the same one has been there for a week, or does it have to have been a featured article on the main page? I think it would be nice to feature the new Fourth Doctor article. --bjwebb 28 June 2005 16:23 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. Considering that the only FAs that are Who-related so far are Doctor Who and Dalek, if we were limited to that, it'd be a really short cycle. :) --khaosworks June 28, 2005 16:26 (UTC)

Great, I've changed it now. Just out of interest, have any other Doctor Who articles been mentioned on the main page in other sections? --bjwebb 29 June 2005 16:08 (UTC)

Torchwood

It would be nice to have a quick mention of Torchwood on the portal, maybe in the "did you know?" section? --TimPope 22:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Tennant is tenth? Questioning a "Did You Know" item

Yes, he's officially the Tenth Doctor in the BBC series, but he's not the tenth actor to play a version of The Doctor. Is some qualification needed here? On what basis are Richard Hurndall, Peter Cushing, Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, etal., excluded from the count? Should it read that Tennant is the tenth actor barring anniversary specials, film adaptations not directly involving the BBC, licensed parodies and BBCi productions? He's the Tenth Doctor—that's canon—but the number of actors playing the character has nothing to do with continuity or canonicity. It's a simple fact that more than ten actors have played the character; if Tennant is the tenth of a subset of the total, then the subset must be defined. Canonblack 14:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you're (and everyone else is) assuming that the Doctor never regenerated before Hartnell (may be backed up by the classic series - I haven't watched much of it yet) and that during the Time War he died exactly once, despite fighting on the front, regenerating from McGann to Eccleston. So Tennant is commonly perceived as the 10th Doctor but he may not be.

When people say "The Nth Doctor" they mean "The Nth actor to play the Doctor on a story that's canon". More precisely, "Nth actor the Doctor 'regenerated into' on a story that's canon". There is no "tenth Doctor", there is one Doctor. He just changes his face and his biology. If you get acid all over your face you're not a different person, nor when you're drunk and start acting different. ailaG (talk) 00:12, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Status of Torchwood within the Doctor Who portal

I suspect this may have already been discussed (although I couldn't find it) -- Should the TV series Torchwood be fully integrated into the Doctor Who portal? I.e., once the series airs, and pages and pages of Torchwood stuff are put on wikipedia, should the Doctor Who portal and Doctor Who Template reflect the increase in Torchwood-related material, e.g. by having "Torchwood main pages" as well as the "Doctor Who main pages" like this:

Alternatively, Torchwood could be made more separate from Doctor Who. I know it might seem a bit premature to talk about this now (when there is very little Torchwood material on Wikipedia), but it would definitely seem much better to create the structure now before the inevitable appearance of dozens of Torchwood pages, than to have to re-edit and move everything around at a later date. I would be grateful if people would add their suggestions here. Apologies if this has already been discussed elsewhere (please add links to any relevant discussions). Rnt20 10:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it's a good idea to discuss this ahead of time. My own inclination is to leave the main Doctor Who navbox as it is now (with links to Torchwood and the other spin-offs) but to create another navbox for Torchwood. I'd like us to avoid ending up with anything as massive as, say Template:Buffyversenav, and if we add new sections to the Doctor Who navbox for each of the many upcoming spinoffs (including The Sarah Jane Adventures, now confirmed by the BBC!) it's quite likely that the navbox will swell to proportions approaching those. There will, of course, be topics like the Torchwood Institute which will appear in both Doctor Who and Torchwood navboxes, but I don't think that's a problem. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 15:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Did You Know query

Who is Daniel Dayte, and what is the "2007 Official Australian Doctor Who Fan Club"? The only reference to either I can find on the net is THIS page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.49.9.154 (talk) 11:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC).

The Doctor Who Movie

So sorry to start a new topic - there is so much going on in here that this may be addressed elsewhere (I'm new) and I apologize for any redundancy. I was just looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_TARDIS_travellers and thought that since The Watcher was named as a Doctor (and on the page you might want to mention he was played by Adrian Gibbs even though he was uncredited), surely Paul McGann sould have mention (even if only as a footnote). Perhaps not, just a thought.

Snakedance Screenshot

I noticed that the screenshot for Snakedance was removed because there was no FU rationale. Can someone upload again (I don't own it) and is there any way to keep an eye on the other pages to make sure nothing else gets deleted do you guys know?--Deadly∀ssassin^(talk) 01:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Happening soon

With a series in progress, this should be updated at least every week. Digifiend (talk) 13:07, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Who story chronology - updates required

Just wondering why the Doctor Who story chronology page does not include the following 10th Doctor stories:
Day of the Troll - Audio book
Code of the Krillitanes - Quick Read book
Darksmith Legacy books
Doctor Who Files Stories
Decide Your Destiny books - I understand why this series has been omited...although it could be listed under Unclear Placement.
--KR 13Sep09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.240.203 (talk) 15:23, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

Please if anybody will have time and knows anything to it, please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what anybody would say to the merge and the delete discussion. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 03:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

English?

Should we use British or American English in terms in this portal? (Spelling & vocabulary) Most of Wikipedia uses American English but it seems more fitting to use British here. I saw a few instances of the latter, too. ailaG (talk) 00:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I'd err to "British" English, but I think if written in the formal, neutral style Wikipedia needs, there aren't that many differences.Rankersbo (talk) 14:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Article quality

Hi there. A lot of Doctor Who articles, particularly related to the Audio series, tend to end up as unreferenced stubs and end up after initial interest not being developed. A lot of articles in the scope of this project don't have a reference section at all. Lots of articles have warnings about the lack of citations going back several years and no-one has done anything about it.

Can I ask for support in doing the following

• Adding reference sections to the bottom of all Doctor Who articles.
• Making sure there are at least primary citations to the material (IE the BBC, Big Finish webpages).
• Seeking out secondary references to support Doctor Who articles

Key examples are the Big Finish Doctor Who stories that have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, as the BBC programme pages can provide good references to back the articles up.

Thanks Rankersbo (talk) 14:11, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Can someone replace the picture of the old TARDIS with the new TARDIS? XtremeNerdz12 (talk) 17:02, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Doctor (Doctor Who)

Some changes should probably made to this article considering the new developments with John Hurt's Doctor. As far as I can tell, he's being called the "War Doctor". It's now been confirmed through "The Night of the Doctor" that the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, regenerates into his character, and that this character ends the time war. I was thinking since he is an official incarnation of the Doctor he should be included in the article image. I also think the regeneration of Eighth Doctor to War Doctor is significant and should be included in the Regenerations section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmf28 (talk • contribs) 02:27, 15 November 2013 (UTC)