Welcome to the TARDIS Index File, the Doctor Who Wiki! We have have several help pages to help you with various tasks on this wiki. See also Wikia Help; many of the answers provided there are also applicable to this wiki site.

Contents 1 Getting started 2 Going deeper 3 Policies, guidelines and information for contributors 3.1 Information for contributors 3.2 Nominations pages 3.3 Help pages 3.4 Policies 3.4.1 Index lists 4 Fora (or, if you like, forums) 4.1 Spoiler free 4.2 Spoilers allowed 5 Getting involved

Getting started Edit

The following are tutorials on some of the most basic aspects of editing articles of wiki editing in general:

• How to log in
• How to edit a page
• How to start a new page

Going deeper Edit

These tutorials examine some more advanced topics, with special emphasis on things specific to this particular wiki. All editors, regardless of their familiarity with wiki editing, are encouraged to read these articles.

• How to use preloadable formats
• How to use Wiki markup
• How to use magic words
• What's a namespace?
• How to create and submit a background image

Policies, guidelines and information for contributors Edit

If you're going to edit here — and we hope that you do! — you need to understand the formatting rules and guidelines we've stablished. These rules may be fiddly, but they greatly help the site have a uniform and more professional look. One of your first stops as an editor should be our Manual of Style, followed swiftly by a visit to our layout guides.

Information for contributors Edit

• What the TARDIS Index File is not
• Point of view
• Copyrights
• Copyright tags
• List of prefixes
• Recent changes - List of edits made to this wiki.
• Resources
• Templates

Nominations pages Edit

Some features of the site — typically elements seen on the front page are put up for specicfic discussion at one of several nominations pages. Here's a list of them, so you can get in on the conversation!

Background image submissions Feature Article nominations

Quote of the Week nominations User rights nominations

Help pages Edit

Archiving talk pages Avatars Background images Beyond the basics Bypass your cache Calendar Changing your username Chat Close my account Disambiguation term Edit conflict Edit summary Editing Facebook Connect Files Galleries and slideshows/wikitext Gallery

Game of Rassilon Global CSS and JS Glossary Google maps HTML ISBN Image cheat card Interlanguage links Interwiki shortcuts Logging in Magic words Moving pages MyTools Namespace New page Notifications Ownership

Page history Pipe switch Prefixes Preloadable formats Prohibited content Redirect Signature Spam Special pages Spell checking Spelling cheat card Toolbar User access levels Wiki activity Wiki markup Wikia IRC channels Wikia copyrights

Policies Edit

Archiving policy Blocking policy Canon policy Chat policy Copyright tags Deletion policy Diegesis Disambiguation policy Discussion policy Editing policy Game of Rassilon rules

Guide to images Image use policy Interlanguage link policy Manual of Style No personal attacks Plagiarism Point of view Protection policy Quote of the Week policy Shortcuts Signature policy

Spelling policy Spoiler policy User image policy User page policy User rights Username policy Vandalism policy Video policy What the TARDIS Index File is not

Index lists Edit

• Publication Index List
• Audio Index List
• Broadcast and Video Index List

Fora (or, if you like, forums) Edit

Spoiler free Edit

• Forum index

• Reference Desk - Question-and-answer forum about narrative or behind-the-scenes elements. Our version of the Doctor Who Answers wiki.
• Panopticon - Policy and procedure relating to the maintenance and development of the TARDIS Index File, the Doctor Who Wiki.
• Discontinuity index - A collection of discussions specifically related to the discontinuous narrative elements in individual stories. Got a plot hole? This is the place for you.

Spoilers allowed Edit

• The Howling - A place to freely discuss and speculate, without having to worry about the restrictions of our spoiler policy.

Getting involved Edit

• To Do Lists
• Quote of the Week policy and Quote of the Week nominations
• Current projects
• Feature Article policy and Feature Article nominations