Talk:List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)

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Tonight's the Night added to List

So should the special 'Doctor Who' scene be added to the list? Obviously it's not canon, so place it under 'The Curse of Fatal Death' entry? 123.50.142.2 (talk) 00:09, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I would agree with that - I would think it's skin to "A Fix With Sontarans" and we have that listed there Etron81 (talk) 13:38, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Should it not be given its own page as well? "A Fix with Sontarans" has one after all. Pdb781 (talk) 17:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I think it should list John Barrowman as playing himself.... 24.183.22.42 (talk) 09:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I think it deserves one too. Even though it was rather funny, I think they should have made it cannon. Perhaps it could be merged into Tonight's the Night (TV series).Whoniverse93 21:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

When did this change to season?

This is a British TV series. We say series, not season. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.174.73.151 (talk) 13:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I hadn't realised that the word season was being used for everything up to and including McCoy's tenure. I think this should be changed to fit in with the British use of the term "series" over "season". magnius (talk) 13:36, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I've only been around for just over a year, and we've used season for the class series and series for the revived series for a least that time. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Doctor_Who/Manual_of_style#Terminology. Edgepedia (talk) 13:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

"Season" is a longstanding usage for Doctor Who, dating at least back to the 1981 Doctor Who Programme Guide by Jean-Marc Lofficier. It's been continued in the modern era to distinguish "Season One" (1963–64) from "Series One" (2005). This distinction is used by all the reliable sources, including Doctor Who Magazine and the BBC's classic Doctor Who website.

This question comes up all the time. We should probably have a FAQ. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 13:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I noticed it's been changed. It's quite confusing to have two Series 1's etc. I think it should be changed back, besides the Doctor Who Classic Series website has them listed in 'Seasons' not 'Series'. Whoniverse93 talk? 15:14, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I've already changed it back... Etron81 (talk) 15:19, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

The use of 'season' in place of 'series' is becoming more prevalent in the BBC, possibly due to the hiring of quite a few American managers in the BBC. However as someone who started watching Doctor Who in the 60s in B&W, I know that the word 'Season' was never used, it was always 'series' Bear in mind that WP is not actually a place to impose American/British/Indian English on the rest of the world. I would never change the spelling of a word in an article, predominantly set in the USA or being USA-centric, i.e.'favor' and 'favour' but to use 'Season' when writing about a British production, is factually incorrect. Check the Radio Times? Etron81, given you were only born in 1981 - based on your age - and are an American, you are actually trying to enforce, your POV on the rest of the world. It is incorrect, to refer to the Dr. Who series as seasons, simply because it sits better with your nomenclature. To say that "...it's been standard since 1981, by some people (non-English people at that) doesn't make it correct. I'll give it a week to be convinced, then I will change it to correct English nomenclature. Ragebe (talk) 16:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Here's a thought

I've been thinking, should we create an article for the 2009/10 specials? I think it be quite nice to have a more indepth artcle about the specials. Pro66 (talk) 16:24, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

What are you going to say? Why not create one in user space and see what people think? Edgepedia (talk) 19:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I think that's fair as all of series 1-4 have their own pages.Whoniverse93 21:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)