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Hey, I hope you are doing well 😁 My recent GA review at Liz Stooke is not on pause as the reviewer has been blocked. If you have time time, could you please finish the review? It is a relatively short article so it shouldn't take too much time. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:37, 14 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Apologies, I saw your message but had been sidetracked with some other projects in the last week and wanted to wrap that up first. I see this has been returned to the queue, so I can still pick it up. TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:54, 21 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TheDoctorWho; Not sure about your revert and copyvio notice. The article for The Madison is just started and under development; I've therefore added a 4-line quoted premise summary from Variety magazine which was linked and fully sourced. I'm not sure where you see a copy via in this case since it was fully sourced, fully quoted, and linked to the original source. ErnestKrause (talk) 03:28, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@ErnestKrause: Linking a source does not entitle you to copy and paste large portions of that link's text into a Wikipedia article. This is noted on WP:COPYPASTE, which says "In most cases, you may not copy text from other sources into Wikipedia. Doing so is a copyright violation. Always write the articles in your own words and cite the sources of the article." Similarly, this information is explained in more detail at WP:PARAPHRASE: "Editors should generally summarize source material in their own words, adding inline citations as required by the sourcing policy. Limited close paraphrasing is appropriate within reason, as is quoting, so long as the material does not violate copyrights and is cited [...] Close paraphrasing without in-text attribution may constitute plagiarism, and when extensive (with or without in-text attribution) may also violate Wikipedia's copyright policy, which forbids Wikipedia contributors from copying an excessive amount of material directly from other sources." Copying an entire paragraph and a half from the source text is "excessive" in my opinion. A premise section is essentially general plot that applies to the series overall rather than a specific episode, as noted at MOS:TVPLOT, this should be written in your own words. However, when it is necessary to source it, the associated text should not be excessively copied, nor a close paraphrase. See Marshals for an example of this. TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:48, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, TheDoctorWho. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Private Practice episodes – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 13. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 20:32, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) § Merge proposal. You were pinged in December 2025. Please take a look at the post-Merger proposal. — YoungForever^(talk) 14:38, 21 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, TheDoctorWho. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for 1923 season 2 at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, 🅑🅰🅖 ☿ 🅴🅻🅵🅵🅐🅱 01:34, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your good article nomination of the article Doctor Who series 15 is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Olliefant -- Olliefant (talk) 04:32, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TheDoctorWho, thanks again for taking a look at Heartstopper. I’d definitely love your help, and I was actually thinking of starting with List of Heartstopper episodes before tackling the accolades list and then the main article. Would you be willing to take a look and tell me what you think still needs tightening before FLC?

No pressure at all - even just a steer on the biggest likely issues would be hugely appreciated.

Mosherdude91 (talk) 11:31, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Mosherdude91: Apologies, I've been a tad busy lately. Some recommendations for the list from a quick glance:

• The lead could be expanded. Even with only three seasons the lead should basically encompass everything a reader unfamiliar with the show would need to know to comprehend the list. So a little production information, an expanded premise, and something about how the series has been received.
• An image for the lead paragraph would also be useful. Despite the series title card being marked as fair use, I can't imagine that it meets the United States TOO. If it does, the wordmark is even less likely to meet it, and could likely be considered in the public domain.
• I don't know that the citations for the individual episodes are needed. The episode titles appear in each of the episodes title cards themselves and the director/writer in the closing credits, so would likely be covered under the same concept as WP:CITEPLOT/WP:PLOTSOURCE. This is even more evident with the fact those sources are citing the episodes themselves. If they are kept however, they should be moved to the RTitle= field so they don't appear inside the quotation marks. The only thing that does need a citation is the airdates (airdateR= in the tables). Either the citations already in the lead, or something like this would be sufficient.
• The episode tables also need captions for accessibility reasons (but can be hidden for screenreaders only because they exist directly below the section header).

I believe that's all that jumps out to me on a first pass. List of Stranger Things episodes and List of Cobra Kai episodes would likely be good examples of featured lists I've written from other Netflix series', that both represent most of the above. And like I said, I would be willing to assist in this and take on a co-nomination when the time comes. TheDoctorWho (talk) 17:28, 8 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I hope you are doing well and having a lovely week. I wanted to please ask if you could please review one of my GANs in the "Media and drama" section please? (Except Ryan Clayton (actor) as I need to update his article this weekend). This is because the nominations in that section have been talking a longer time than usual. No worries at all if not! :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:38, 24 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there... my FAC (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's singles/archive1) has received three supports, plus the image and source reviews, but is still sitting stagnant. Maybe a fourth review might help spur it along? I would appreciate any help you could provide. This event has tons of drama; sadly, it's all off-ice. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:10, 10 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This article – Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Austrian Figure Skating Championships/archive1 – also needs at least one more looksie. Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:26, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

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Congratulations, TheDoctorWho! The article you nominated, 1923 season 2, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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The Space-Time Telegraph Volume IV, Issue I — April 2026 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who A new newsletter materializing? Quick, help us reverse the polarity of the neutron flow so it can safely land on your talk pages! Don't be lasagna (because there's a new newsletter to read) Hello, and welcome to our first 2026 issue of The Space-Time Telegraph. Inside you'll find plenty of information about recent happenings in our little Who corner of Wikipedia. We've also included a plethora of Doctor Who news you may have missed elsewhere in the last few months such as the finding of previously missing episodes, upcoming and recent product releases, a new streaming home for Who across the pond (and even a potential future partnership for new episodes). So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and jump on in! Into the Vortex! (Of Good and Featured Content) Since our newsletter last December, the Doctor Who WikiProject has seen a large amount of quality article improvement. So far, 16 Good Articles have been improved this year! We're at about the same pace we were last year, which is always good to see, especially given the twelve other articles nominated for GA status at present. Special shoutouts to users Rhain for their improvements on First Doctor serials, SkywalkerEccleston for their various improvements across a wide variety of articles, Lbal for their work on Full Circle (Doctor Who), and Doomitron for their work on Sixth Doctor. Additionally, since then, Ice Warrior has been improved to Featured Article status, List of Doctor Who creatures and aliens and List of Doctor Who characters have been improved to Featured List status, and three Good Topics focused on articles relating to the Midnight Entity, the Slitheen, and Doctor Who series 15 have been nominated and approved. Congratulations to all of the users who have improved quality Doctor Who articles in the past few months! A flabbergasting discovery In March, it was announced that episodes 1 ("The Nightmare Begins") and 3 ("Devil's Planet") of The Daleks' Master Plan were found by the charity Film is Fabulous! in a private collection among some films. The collector gave them permission to have them and sadly passed away not long after. Upon learning of the discovery through Toby Hadoke, actor Peter Purves, who starred in the episodes alongside William Hartnell and Adrienne Hill, said "My flabber has never been so gasted". The episodes were shown at a BFI screening (with Purves in attendance) in April and are now available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the official Doctor Who Classic YouTube channel in the US. This means that episodes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 of The Daleks' Master Plan are now available. It has been hinted that more could be found in the near future as 95 episodes remain missing. Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network The 1996 American-produced Doctor Who television film was remastered in 4K using the original film reels for a Blu-ray release this May. The restored version includes both the UK and U.S. broadcast versions and new special features. Big Finish Productions recently extended their contract with the BBC to continue licensing the Doctor Who franchise intellectual property for audio stories through 2035. The first new production to be confirmed following this announcement, is a fifteen-part box set featuring David Tennant set to begin releasing bimonthly next year. In February, the First Doctor serial The Rescue was published on vinyl record as a special release for Record Store Day in the United Kingdom. Circuit Breaker, a new multi-platform story starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor was announced by BBC Studios to launch this June. Spanning audio, books, comics, games, magazine, internet, and Blu-ray releases, tells a singular interconnected story about UNIT's Black Archive across several mediums. Seventeen years after its last release, Character Options is releasing a new five-part set of Doctor Who figures beginning in July. In the United States, AMC+ has secured rights to be the exclusive streaming video on demand host of all 2005–2022 Doctor Who episodes. This era of Who has been unavailable to stream in the States since its removal from HBO Max in July 2025. Noticeably absent from press releases are mention of spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures; while these shows have historically been packaged with this era of Who in streaming deals on HBO Max, before that on Amazon Prime Video, as well as Netflix and Hulu in the ancient days, there is no confirmation if these will be included. Elsewhere in America, Classic Who has it's own streaming home on BritBox (yes, BritBox still exists on this side of the pond), while the 60th anniversary specials and Gatwa's era remain on Disney+ for the foreseeable future. Disney has also yet to release The War Between the Land and the Sea, a five-part miniseries previously marketed by the company as releasing outside of the UK and Ireland in "early 2026". There is also no news on where, if anywhere, future episodes of Who will air or stream in the United States (or elsewhere worldwide, for that matter); however, AMC Global Media (the owner of AMC+) owns BBC America, which it regularly licenses BBC content for and was the linear broadcaster of Who from 2009–2022, and a non-controlling ownership stake in BritBox. AMC+ was also previously the next-day streamer of Who episodes during the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall-era as a transitional period between their broadcast on BBC America and release on HBO Max. Given this, and the global reach of AMC+, it's a feasible home for future new episodes and even the rumored potential of a co-production deal to fill the funding deficit left by Disney. Succession The oldest-living person associated with the Whoniverse since Arnold Yarrow's death in December 2024, Laurie Webb, sadly passed away on 29 March aged 101 years, 327 days. He remains the fifth longest-lived person associated with the Whoniverse and the tenth to become a centenarian. The title of oldest-living person associated with the Whoniverse is now held by 97-year-old Peter Cellier (Time-Flight). Contributors Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) Spectritus (talk) TheDoctorWho (talk) Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 Since the previous issue was published, a number of people related to the Whoniverse have sadly passed away and some who passed away before the previous issue only had their deaths announced recently: 2022 October – Tony Scoggo, 86, actor (Terror of the Vervoids) 2023 25 March – Douglas Sheldon, 87, actor (The Daleks' Master Plan) 2024 Q1 – Susanna Carroll, 90 or 91, actress (Galaxy 4) 9 December – Julia Burnett, 70, actress (The Hand of Fear) 29 December – Nick Hobbs, 78, actor (The Curse of Peladon, The Ark in Space, "Amy's Choice" and more) 2025 Before 15 February – Geoffrey Keep, 76 or 77, convention regular and First Doctor cosplayer Before 14 April – Harriet Philpin, 73, actress (Genesis of the Daleks) 30 June – Jim Shooter, 73, editor-in-chief (1984–86 Doctor Who comic series by Marvel Comics) 11 August – Mike Winser, 83, OB cameraman (The Ultimate Foe) 14 August – Carol Sadler, 62, camerawoman (some unspecified 1980s serials) 28 August – John J. Johnston, 60, contributor to Doctor Who Magazine 3 September – Keith Hodiak, 75, actor ("The Five Doctors") 7 October – Tony Handy, 91, actor (The Underwater Menace) 1 November – Aidan White, 56, actor ("Partners in Crime") 7 November – Clemente Rezzónico, 90, artist (Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150) 8 November – Geoff Beech, 81, studio cameraman (some unspecified 1960s and 1970s serials) 11 November – Nigel Walters, 84, camera assistant (The Ambassadors of Death) 11 November – Peter Sowerbutts, 76, actor (multiple audio stories) 16 November – Quenton Annis, 84, assistant floor manager (The Ice Warriors) 28 November – Carol Lawrence, 81, costume designer (Chute!) 3 December – John Dillon, 92, actor (The Savages) 8 December – Tony Van Silva, 75, stunt performer ("Tooth and Claw") 19 December – Richard Barnes, 81, actor (Nightmare of Eden) December – Roger Bamford, unknown age, floor assistant (The Daleks' Master Plan) 2025 – Rita Dunn, 92, production assistant (Snakedance) 2025 – George Reed, 91, visual effects assistant (The Seeds of Doom, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Castrovalva, and many more) 2025 – Jan Spoczynski, 76 or 77, designer (Snakedance) and design assistant (Revenge of the Cybermen) 2026 1 January – Gregory de Polnay, 82, actor (The Robots of Death) 2 January – Colin Bell, 80, actor (The Sea Devils, Invasion of the Dinosaurs) 9 January – Tina Packer, 87, actress (The Web of Fear) 10 January – Derek Martin, 92, actor (Image of the Fendahl, The Romans, The Massacre and more) and stuntman (The Ambassadors of Death, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos) 11 January – Marcus Gilbert, 67, actor (Battlefield, UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall) 13 January – Paul Grist, 86, actor (The Claws of Axos) 14 January – Donald Douglas, 92, actor (The Sontaran Experiment) 16 January – Hazel Ellerby, 67, actress (Torchwood: Cadoc Point) 31 January – Lorne Martin, 79, props buyer (Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years) and head of BBC Exhibitions 9 February – Tony Millier, 85, studio sound provider (The Enemy of the World, Colony in Space, The Dæmons and many more) 7 March – Paul Seed, 78, actor (The Ribos Operation) 17 March – Mike Smith, 87, helicopter pilot (Fury from the Deep, The Dæmons) 18 March – Tom Georgeson, 89, actor (Genesis of the Daleks, Logopolis) 25 March – Sheila S. Tomlinson, 100, film editor (Revenge of the Cybermen) 29 March – Laurie Webb, 101, actor (The Three Doctors) 6 April – Angela Pleasence, 84, actress ("The Shakespeare Code", The Curse of Clyde Langer) 10 April – Jan Williams, 87, actress (The Ark) April – Jill Curzon, 87, actress (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) 2 May – Barbara Kinghorn, 81, actress (The Caves of Androzani) 3 May – Joyce Hawkins, 95, costume designer (Horror of Fang Rock) 14 May – Alan Rothwell, 89, actor (The Twilight Kingdom) 18 May – Tom Kane, 64, actor (LEGO Dimensions) May – Michael Keating, 79, actor (The Sun Makers, The Twilight Kingdom, Year of the Pig, The Evil One, The End) Unknown year Tom Reeve, unknown age, dresser (Full Circle, Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen) Brian Holloway, unknown age, cameraman (some unspecified serials in the 1960s and 1970s) Dave Carter, unknown age, actor (Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, and many more) If you wish to contribute to future editions of the newsletter, leave a message on the WikiProject talk page or reach out to one of the current contributors listed above. 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