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The Discontinuity Guide

I've put a stop to the increasingly heated edit warring at The Discontinuity Guide. Other eyes may be required at Talk:The Discontinuity Guide#Pushing opinions. Mostly it's two people; I've made myself involved. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Project Nirvana

Hello, I have added {{unreferenced}} to Project Nirvana. This article is listed as part of this WikiProject, so perhaps editors can help to determine whether this set of audiobooks is notable. Or should it be nominated for discussion? I hope I can leave this in the hands of project members to determine. PNGWantok (talk) 22:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Andrew Skilleter PROD

Just letting people know that Andrew Skilleter has been proposed for deletion (NOT by me) in case anyone wants to try and save it. Nice of them to let the relevant project know(!) Mabalu (talk) 10:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

If the article's talk page had borne the {{WikiProject Doctor Who}} banner, the article would have been listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts. But it didn't, so it wasn't. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:33, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

The original author was notified. But to merge it to list of novelisations the day after nomination goes against the mechanism of PROD which is a seven day delay. GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:15, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Coal Hill School on AfD

Just a heads-up: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coal Hill School. I've done some work on the article since the AfD began; you can judge for yourselves whether it is enough to keep the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Quote tags and DISPLAYTITLE

Is the use of the <q></q> tags in episode titles generally accepted now? And if so, should we begin converting the titles for the rest of the new series? G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 14:50, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

@G S Palmer: The q element - or the <q>...</q> tags if you like - are used to mark up "phrasing content quoted from another source". Where are you seeing it being used in {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}?

BTW {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} is not a template, it is a Behaviour switch. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:47, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: thanks for clarifying the nature of DISPLAYTITLE. In answer to your question, all the episodes of series 8 have used the tags after Edokter used them on "Deep Breath" as part of a test for Wikipedia talk:Article titles/Archive 47#Quotation marks in article titles using <q> tag. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 18:17, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I've just visited Deep Breath (Doctor Who), copied the article title and pasted it here →"Deep Breath" (Doctor Who)← it displays quotemarks, which are copypasteable, and so it goes against WP:DISPLAYTITLE "the displayed title must still resolve to the true name of the page (i.e. if the displayed title is copied and pasted into a wikilink, the link should point to the original page)". Edokter, where was the consensus to use <q>...</q> in {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}? If there was none, please demonstrate how the article Deep Breath (Doctor Who) meets the criteria for a non-standard title format, as detailed in the Article titles policy. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:43, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

There is no policy regarding the use of <q> in titles. Now that the tag is allowed, it allows you to display the quotes without actually changing the text of the title. I pioneered "Deep Breath" for testing and started the discussion linked above. Not a lot of response, but it warrants discuission; that is why I'm leaving it. If you get the quotes while copying, your browser is broken (only IE does this). -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 22:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I use Internet Explorer also, and ran into the same problem. However, Edokter pointed out that you can always copy from the address bar instead. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 22:59, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I use Firefox 32, and it copies the quotes. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:22, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Reading the archived discussion, it doesn't appear there's a clear consensus for the usage of the quotation marks. I'd firmly agree with those against this idea. It's complicating something unnecessarily. Matthew (talk) 17:29, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Radio Times posters

Just a feeler: for Series 7, we used the BBC promotional posters for the infobox images. This series, it doesn't appear the BBC are doing so, instead delegating to the Radio Times. How does everyone feel about using them instead of screenshots? Sceptre ^(talk) 13:41, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

@Sceptre: I haven't seen any of these posters - could you give us a link to them? G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 13:46, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Just searched them - do you mean this, this, this, and this? I guess those could work. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 13:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, those are what I was thinking of. Sceptre ^(talk) 14:20, 14 September 2014 (UTC)