Talk:List of Doctor Who robots
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That's a rather Bizarre alteration - to decapitalise three words of a title. Is it some wiki-convention I am unaware of? Otherwise it seems unnecessary and incorrect. I won't revert it until I have had some comment.User:DavidFarmbrough 11 Apr 2004 17:31 (BST)
- The convention in Wikipedia is to capitalize only the start of an article name, and thereafter only if there are proper names in it. So it is, for example, "List of supporting characters in Doctor Who", not "List of Supporting Characters in Doctor Who", but "Meddling Monk" is permissible. Remember to wikilink and italicize the serial titles as per the style guidelines at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Doctor Who, please. --khaosworks 03:18, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- That's fine - I don't mind it being done if it's the convention here. As for the linking, I was going to go back and do that later...but someone has beaten me to it! User:DavidFarmbrough 12 Apr 2004 08:42 (BST)
This information seems a little too specialized to have its own article -- perhaps it should be combined with the Supporting Characters page. Ravenswood 17:30, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
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- No because it isn't just an adjunct to the Doctor Who pages, it also flows from the List of fictional robots and androids. To incorporate all the Doctor Who robots in that article would distort it too much.David Farmbrough 11:27, 3 May 2005 (BST)
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- How about a compromise: Fold this article into the Supporting Characters page, and link to that section of the article from the List of Fictional Robots article. Ravenswood 06:25, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
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- It's way too long to put in the Supporting Characters page, which is long enough already. Besides, this is a very specialised listing, and are not just supporting characters. --khaosworks 07:36, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
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Are the Appearance of the Repeated Meme from The End of the World robots?--GingerM 16:43, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- The Adherents did turn out to be droids - which qualify as robots, yes. --khaosworks 17:13, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Krotons
Anyone know/remember/can find on google, is a kroton a robot or a cyborg? --TimPope 21:52, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not entirely certain, but I don't think they were completely robots. --khaosworks 22:04, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
- I did a quick check on the Doctor Who Reference Guide. The Krotons are crystalline based life forms. --khaosworks 22:04, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, not one for this list then :) --TimPope 19:13, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Robot clowns
Weren't the clowns (or most of them) in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy robots? --JB Adder | Talk 03:14, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, actually, they were. There were a bunch of half-finished robot clowns in the workshop that start menacing Ace at the end of part two. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 03:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Robots in Doctor Who novels
I suggest that if robots in the (many) novels be listed then they have their own list.GraemeLeggett 13:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A-Z
How about having an A-Z format, like List of Doctor Who villains. Two reasons: consistency, and making it easier to find a certain robot. e.g. If you wnated to find out more about the Clocwork Droids that appeared in The Girl in the Fireplace, you might not know that it is a Tenth Doctor story. --Thelb4 10:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
Okay, now that we're here, what's the issue(s) we have to deal with? --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 08:48, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Apparently, that most of the robots are redirected to the articles about the episodes they appeared in, due to lack of information on the original version of the page. Apart from that, I'm not sure. ~ 17:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I think the way we had it before, ie a short sentence about each robot. They can be put in alphabetical order if necessary but a just a list of main article links looks awful. Tim! 17:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, we need to put some information about some of the more notable robots into the list instead of links to main articles, but when I redid the page, most of the robots had no information about them. So now all that's left is just to add more information about some of the robots. ~ 17:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
Following the above discussion on cleanup - I have hcanged the tag to expand.GraemeLeggett 17:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures
As anyone here who is familiar with my Wikipedia work will know, I am a strong proponent of pictures. This article would be greatly improved if we had a small picture to illustrate each robot in this list; I strongly recommend this measure as part of this page's expansion project. --Promus Kaa 20:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Santas
About the Robotic Santas: Used together in both The Christmas Invasion and The Runaway Bride, the Robotic Santa Clauses and Robotic Christmas Trees were used by both the Sycorax and the Racnoss on Christmas Day 2006 and 2007 respectively. I thought they were just ... freelance scavengers, if you will, in The Christmas Invasion, and weren't actually affiliated with the Sycorax? Pilot fish, as the Doctor put it.--Codenamecuckoo 07:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, change it (if you haven't already), I wrote that but I'd forgotten how the Doctor had described them so I wrote that instead, the closest I could think of to that. ~ 11:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Just to let u know i've added in that they were ,at that time, just hitching a ride with the scyoraxes and that possibly might've been rewired/employed to obey the Racnoss.--I.W 16:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Suggested merge
Kevinsam has placed a merge template on the Clockword Droids section to merge into the article Clockwork Droids. So what do you think? I, personally, am against, because as far as I'm aware only creatures who have appeared in more than one serial (e.g the Daleks in several hundred DW stories including novels and comic strips, the Raxacoricofallapatorians in Aliens of London/World War Three, Boom Town, and the novel The Monsters Inside, etc) and as far as I'm aware (and I'm pretty aware) the Clockwork Droids have only appeared in The Girl in the Fireplace. Anyway, what do you think? ~ 07:18, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- The merge proposal looks backwards to me. As Ghelae says, we generally create separate articles for Doctor Who monsters only when they make multiple appearances. This can be multiple appearances on television (e.g. Dalek, Sontaran, etc.), or multiple appearances in other media (e.g. Zygon — they were on TV only once, but they've made many subsequent appearances in comics, novels, etc.). My understanding is that the clockwork droids appeared only in The Girl in the Fireplace, so they really don't deserve an article of their own. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)