On Suggestion Form and Story Edit Moderations

Yeah that’s the only thing, when adding them all I always thought “maybe this planet is visited more than once, I’ll add it just in case” but of course they rarely are.

And if they are, it’s usually a sequel or something so related that you don’t need the location filter to find it.

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Probably should stop adding in random locations then, shouldn’t I… :see_no_evil:

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The basic principle for if something should be in the location list is “will this location appear in Whodle at some point and I’ll be trying to figure out which episode it was in?”…

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Oh actually maybe we could keep locations for TV episodes because they are quite iconic, but remove them from the audios and books because they are always like Planet Zog.

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I suppose it depends on how TARDIS wiki-like we want to be. The same could be said for characters - who should be in the list and who shouldn’t? Who counts as important enough?

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I have the same problem with Characters.

One-off characters in audios and books that just have a first name and no picture are so annoying and I want to remove them all.

But sometimes you want to add a quote for them or something.

Ugh.

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At least leave those that also appeared on TV and already have revisits plz :pleading_face:

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I would suggest that I’m much more likely to be trying to find what episode Buckingham Palace is in then what episode Uxarieus is in…

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Delete those ones that don’t have any quotes and add them back if someone cares about them enough to submit a quote?

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Yeah, with characters, either they should be in there so we can quote them, or we should be able to add characters when doing a quote. HG Wells may only be in one episode, but I’m still going to quote him…

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BF has many recurring actors who play different parts, many of which are one-offs. It’d be interesting to filter by actors if we have all the one-off characters no one really cares about. On the other hand, Wiki has pages for that.

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And there’s also the problem of there being multiple characters named “Guard” or “Time Lord” that are all distinctive.

It’s pretty common to add quotes where the Doctor or companion speaks with a guest character, and the character isn’t in the database.

This is also a good point.

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Exactly. Like Klieg:

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You can actually do that, although I haven’t added the filter to the list yet because it’s still incomplete. It’s going to be a while yet until we finish it. I need to do some bulk-adding

Eg:

I’m so hesitant to make this possible because we will probably get:

HG Wells
H.G. Wells
H Wells

How does the wiki resolve this? Just someone working to fix problems?

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More likely Herbert, since that’s how he’s referred to all through the episode and transcript.

Maybe make it so all the characters in the episode you chose are at the top of the list of characters when filling out the form?

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I’m not sure we need one-off characters in the database just because they have a quote.

If you think about the point of characters, it’s to be able to see what else they are featured in, and maybe read some info about them or eventually add to favourites or rate them.

But if it’s just a rather inconsequential character who just happens to speak to the Doctor, do we need all that?

You can always view the story in question.

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Ah, but Klieg is all powerful, not inconsequential…

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Well, no, we don’t need them per se. But it bugs me that they’re left out :smile:

But that’s something I can live with.

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Should a character be added to a story if she is in it but only as a mind projection? This is the thing I talking about:

THEY RAN TO ROSE’S FLAT. WHICH, ROSE NOTED,
had a really detailed front door and not much apart from
that. The Doctor grabbed the door and heaved it open.
Rose was surprised - and also quite surprised that
anything now could surprise her - to find her Mum standing
in the hall. Really quite an accurate version of Jackie, too.
‘What?’ she looked at them, astonished. 'What’s going
on?’
‘Oh no,’ the Doctor pointed at her. ‘I didn’t imagine you!’
With one blow, he sent her flying. Her body hit the wall,
reverted to its true form of a Unit, and spun out through the
wall via a trick panel that the Doctor must have just
conjured up.

Is Jackie in this story?

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