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The Doctor Who WikiProject is a WikiProject formed and developed to organize information in articles related to the 1963–present British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. We currently have 1513 articles under the scope of this project, which generally includes articles where Doctor Who is a relevant focus to the subject.
If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, sign up on our list of participants, or just start editing.
A full list of pages in the WikiProject can be found here and recent changes to these pages can be seen here.
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Style guide
Our style page includes the following advice aimed to standardise Doctor Who articles:
- Adherence to the Wikipedia Manual of Style;
- Adherence to the Television WikiProject MoS;
- Adherence to the MoS with regard to fiction;
- Categorisation;
- Verification and citations;
- Organisation;
- Image usage;
- Geolocation;
- Terminology.
Organisation
Newsletter
[edit]Torchwood taskforce
[edit]There is presently one task force, the Torchwood taskforce. It was formed in 2006 and is now marked as inactive.
Goals
[edit]- WikiProject Doctor Who Goals: A collection of potential Good Topics for the Project to work towards. New Topics can be suggested here, and you can add your name to a pre-existing topic in order to indicate you would be willing to help work on it.
Parent projects
[edit]Sister projects
[edit]Similar projects
[edit]What do we include?
The main criteria for inclusion should be notability. That being said, to avoid clutter and confusion, we should note the following.
Images
[edit]Illustrations for Doctor Who-related articles are typically taken from screen captures, publicity materials, magazine articles and websites. As such they're nearly all non-free and must only be used in conformance with the Non-free content criteria. Exceptions include pictures of people involved in the writing or production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs, which have been released under free licenses: licenses that allow third parties to modify images and use images commercially. Most non-free images currently in Doctor Who-related articles lack detailed or sufficient fair use rationales justifying their use in the articles. Such images are in danger of deletion; you can remedy this by writing better rationales.
Canon
[edit]To avoid the tricky issue of canonicity, we should identify the source of the information if it comes from anywhere else besides the television series. Televised episodes and specials (barring spoofs and specially-made episodes) are generally considered canon by the BBC and the vast majority of the Doctor Who fandom, while the Peter Cushing films of the 1960s are not. Everything else is of unclear canonicity, with opinion ranging from absolute canon to non-canon. In practice, anything from the televised stories need not be sourced or distinguished, although the relevant episodes should be referenced (with citations to the appropriate episodes or serials). We should also limit the non-television series material, where possible, to material officially licensed by the BBC. This excludes fan videos, but will include the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, the Big Finish Productions audio plays and story collections, the Telos novellas and the Target Books, Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books novels and short stories. Book titles, like television serials, should be italicised, with individual episodes, chapters or short stories in quotation marks. Author credit should be given. The only exceptions to the "officially licensed" would be material from BBV, which is generally of a higher standard than typical fan productions. However, any notable creation may be included, but only if we are clear on its origin.
Minor topics
[edit]Some articles on what might be termed minor topics, e,g. monsters or other characters, are better placed in a list. These are some of the lists available:
- List of Doctor Who supporting characters
- List of Doctor Who spin-off companions
- List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens
Articles can be de-merged if they grow very large. Some very minor characters are probably not worth writing about, and it would be preferable to write the plot synopsis of the episode in which they appear: for example, the article about the character Doctor Constantine redirects to the article about the episode "The Empty Child".
Achievements
Articles and lists with featured status[edit]
Former featured articles and lists[edit]
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Articles with Good Article status
[edit]Articles selected for "Did You Know?"
[edit]- Did you know... that "Rose" is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989? — on the Main Page on March 27, 2005.
- Did you know...that Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981? - on the Main Page on October 21, 2005
- Did you know... that Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" to two sketches on Saturday Night Live? — on the Main Page on April 8, 2006.
- Did you know... that "The Unicorn and the Wasp" will be the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters? — on the Main Page on March 28, 2008.
- Did you know... that the Adipose in the Doctor Who episode "Partners in Crime" were based on a stuffed toy that writer Russell T Davies owned? — on the Main Page on April 13, 2008.
- Did you know... that "The Fires of Pompeii" is the first Doctor Who episode since the television show's revival where the cast filmed abroad? — on the Main Page on April 18, 2008.
- Did you know... that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same solar system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites? — on the Main Page on April 24, 2008.
- Did you know... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors? — on the Main Page on May 2, 2008.
- Did you know... that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father is Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor? — on the Main Page on May 17, 2008.
- Did you know... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady? — on the Main Page on July 3, 2008.
- Did you know... that although £5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom, tickets were touted on eBay for £250? — on the Main Page on August 4, 2008.
- Did you know... that Matt Smith, who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the youngest person to be cast in the title role? — on the Main Page on January 12, 2009.
- Did you know... that the damage inflicted to a bus bought for the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Dead" was written into the storyline at the last minute?
- Did you know... that 80-year-old actor Bernard Cribbins will be the companion in David Tennant's final Doctor Who story?
- Did you know... that the underworld kingpin Keyser Söze from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects was an inspiration for the Doctor Who campfire trailer?
- Did you know... that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base? — on the Main Page on April 26, 2010.
- Did you know... that the part of Jilly Kitzinger in Torchwood was Lauren Ambrose's first role in a science-fiction production? — on the Main Page on March 8, 2012.
- Did you know... that the Torchwood episode "Meat" featured an alien which the writer Catherine Tregenna felt to resemble "a giant kebab"? — on the Main Page on May 21, 2012
- Did you know... that according to writer Toby Whithouse, the seventh series of Doctor Who will mainly consist of stand-alone episodes, each with a distinct genre? — on the Main Page on July 11, 2012
- Did you know... that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, "A Town Called Mercy", was mainly filmed around Almería, Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars? — on the Main Page on August 2, 2012
- Did you know... that the upcoming Doctor Who episode "The Power of Three" was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli? — on the Main Page on August 22, 2012
- Did you know... that Karen Gillan, who portrays Amy Pond, was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying? — on the Main Page on September 7, 2012
- Did you know... that the War Doctor (played by John Hurt, pictured), introduced in "The Night of the Doctor" will be a "dark doctor", who will "bring an ancient battle to its devastating conclusion"? — on the Main Page on November 23, 2013
- Did you know... that Douglas Adams convinced John Cleese to appear in the Doctor Who serial City of Death after learning the comedian would be working in BBC Television Centre on the same day of filming? — on the Main Page on November 23, 2013
- Did you know... that the Thirteenth Doctor, to be portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, will be the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who?
- Did you know... that the Beep the Meep puppet created for "The Star Beast" took six people to operate?
- Did you know... that the Doctor Who episode "The Devil's Chord" references the events of an episode that aired more than sixty years before?
- Did you know... that during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "Boom" some takes lasted up to seven minutes?
- Did you know... that due to legal and union restrictions, the production team for the Doctor Who episode "Space Babies" occasionally had to replace real babies with props?
Templates and categories
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See also
Sample articles
[edit]- Sample episode articles: Genesis of the Daleks (classic series); "The Stolen Earth" (new series)
- Sample book article: Lungbarrow
- Sample audio play article: Jubilee
- Sample character article: Jack Harkness
- Sample race article: Dalek
- Sample Wikiquote article: Tenth Doctor
Useful reference books
[edit]- David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Doctor Who: Companions 1995 Virgin Publishing ISBN 1852275820
- David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker Doctor Who Handbook: The Fourth Doctor 1992 Dr Who Handbooks ISBN 0426203690
- David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker Doctor Who - The Handbook: The First Doctor: The William Hartnell Years 1963 - 1966 (1993) Dr Who Handbooks ISBN 0426204301
- Haining, Peter Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years (1988) ISBN 1852270217
- Haining, Peter Doctor Who: The Key to Time A year by year record (1984) (ISBN 0-491-03283-8)
- John Ainsworth, Mark Wright (eds), Doctor Who: The Complete History (2015–2019): A collection of books detailing Doctor Who's production history.
Useful reference websites
[edit]The following websites may be useful in referencing articles:
- The BBC Doctor Who microsite
- The BBC classic series episode guide
- Shannon Patrick Sullivan's "A Brief History of Time Travel", which contains a wealth of production information
- The Doctor Who Reference Guide, which primarily focuses on plot
- Doctor Who Locations, for finding filming locations for the series
- Digital Spy's Doctor Who section, which includes news and reviews pursuant to the new series
- The Guardian's Doctor Who section, which is also useful for finding news and reviews
- The Doctor Who (1963-1989) section on IGN, which has large amounts of content relating to the Classic era of the show
- The Doctor Who (2006-present) section on IGN, which has reviewed episodes since series 2 and also contains some news articles
- The Radio Times has a large amount of content on Doctor Who, ranging from reviews on episodes from 1963-present, developmental information, interviews and more.
- The BBC's official Doctor Who website contains casting information, broadcast dates and times, and behind the scenes videos. The Doctor Who website's stories section also contains similar info. Both of these sources are primary citations, but are helpful if this information cannot be accessed in secondary sources.
Other sources that have produced consistent Doctor Who related content but do not have dedicated sections include The A.V Club and SFX Magazine.
Article Alerts
[edit]Today's featured articles
- 23 Nov 2024 – Sydney Newman (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 02 Nov 2024 – Peter Capaldi (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Oct 2024 – The Christmas Invasion (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DoctorWhoFan91 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 14 Nov 2024 – Skaro (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 13 Nov 2024 – Halflife (Michalowski novel) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 Nov 2024 – The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 13 Nov 2024 – House of Blue Fire (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 13 Nov 2024 – Lost in Time (Doctor Who) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 08 Nov 2024 – Regeneration (Doctor Who) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 07 Nov 2024 – Death and Diplomacy (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
Good article nominees
- 20 Oct 2024 – Doctor Who specials (2022) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 10 Sep 2024 – The Power of the Doctor (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 06 Sep 2024 – Legend of the Sea Devils (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 03 Aug 2024 – Doctor Who series 14 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Jul 2024 – Space Babies (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – The Church on Ruby Road (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDoctorWho (t · c); start discussion
- 11 Nov 2024 – Midnight (Doctor Who) (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by DoctorWhoFan91 (t · c) was promoted by FishLoveHam (t · c), see discussion
Articles to be split
- 01 Nov 2023 – John Barrowman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion
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