Talk:Tardisode

Mobile telephone broadcasts
This is pretty new to me, and I can't find much discussion of it in other Wikipedia articles. I know that there was a mobile-telephone season of 24, 24: Conspiracy, and there was supposed to be a similar series of mobile telephone mini-episodes of Lost starting this January, but I can't find whether it was broadcast as scheduled or not. I'd heard the term mobisode (mobile+episode) used to describe these mini-episodes, but apparently that's a FOX trademark. I figure there ought to be some category for the articles TARDISODE and 24: Conspiracy (and any others I don't know about), but I don't know what it should be called. (I guess it would be a subcat of Category:Mobile telephony?)

Also, is this the first time there's been original dramatic content made for mobile telephone broadcasts for a UK series? Did I hear something about mini-episodes of Spooks, or is that more like a game? If this breaks any new ground for British broadcasting, we should note that in the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think Spooks has done mobile episodes &mdash; as far as I know they've just done Attack of the Graske-style digital games following the episodes. Angmering 06:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, that's what I was thinking of. So should we note this as the first original video content for telephones in connection with a UK television series?  (When I put all the qualifiers in, it doesn't sound as impressive.)


 * Also, anybody got any thoughts about category naming and placement? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know if they precede the Tardisodes, but the Channel 4 drama series Totally Frank has some mobile-only content (which they call a 'mobi-soap'). Smatthewman 08:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Spoiler?
Are the Tardisodes really a spoiler, as they're designed as episode teasers without giving anything anyway but the most basic plot? I've removed it - if anyone genuinely thinks they are spoilers, they can put the tag back on. UK-Logician-2006
 * I second this. These are nothing more than trailers to upcoming episodes and can't really "spoil" anything.  DonQuixote 19:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not so much a spoiler for the upcoming episodes — it's a spoiler for the Tardisodes themselves since it describes exactly what's happening in them. There are people who are genuinely sensitive about these things and need some kind of flag. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:29, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Images
Er... screenshot from each TARDISODE? I don't particularly like the glacier 'thing' on TV promotions. -- Thelb 4 20:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The glacier image is nothing to do with anything really, and rubbish in itself, and the screengrab is awful. Why not remove it?--Keycard (talk) 08:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've done just that. I think it would be a violation of fair use or something to have a screengrab of each episode, though. -- Thelb 4 16:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

TARDISODE 9 - Scooti?
Just something that's been bugging me since putting down TARDISODE 9 - if anyone can watch it themselves and confirm, or find out through other sources: The girl who finds the man on the chair - is that Scooti or just some random crewmember? It reminds me of her but I'm not sure if it is (hence I only put "woman")... The_B 18:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Watched it: it's not Scooti. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:35, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Points
I'm sorry to have to bring this up but there is no need to remove points in a rude manner. If you do not agree with it, fine, it is perfectly acceptable to remove it with justification, but not to do it in a rude way. I refer to the phrase "Where is the connection...aside from your own head?" Is this necessary? After all, all anyone is trying to do here is provide comprehensive coverage of a television programme. There is really no need to become agressive and I would ask the user to refrain from such an aggressive tone in future.

TARDISODE 7?
Is the elderly woman in this Tardisode the grandmother from the episode itself? I'm not at home and cannot check this personally.

DVD
Anyone know if these will be on the Series 2 DVD? BillyH 17:46, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * According to the BBC webpage, no they won't be and neither will Attack of the Graske. Fortunately the Children in Need Special will at least be included. 68.145.238.33 04:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I've had it confirmed from another newsgroup that the box set is missing the TARDISODEs. Also, the Children in Need Special is apparently a different version than the one broadcast, too. 23skidoo 04:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge?
Tardisodes are effectively trailers for episodes, very short clips. Each individual description is quite short. Are these really notable enough for an encyclopedia? Grouping them together because they share the same format might technically make sense but perhaps it would be more logical and useful for fans of Doctor Who to group (merge) the information about the tardisode into the article for the relevant episode. That would also serve to improve those articles by add an extra item of interest. (I would suggest the analogy of grouping songs together by album is more useful than making a list of songs by a group that have been released as singles or ringtones.) -- Horkana (talk) 18:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The two methods of grouping are both valid. There was significant coverage of the TARDISODES as an example of the BBC working in new media, which I think justifies the existence of the article; however, that doesn't mean that it's not appropriate also to cover each TARDISODE in the article for the related episode.  Duplication of information is not a problem, since Wikipedia is not paper. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Move?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was page moved.  Ron h jones (Talk) 01:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

TARDISODE → Tardisode —
 * Move for capitalisation as a trademark per WP:ALLCAPS.  84.92.117.93 (talk) 20:57, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not so sure this is uncontroversial. The name is based on The Doctor's "ship", the TARDIS (which is an abbreviation and thus IS allowed under ALLCAPS). Maybe it could be moved to TARDISode? Either way, this is not uncontroversial.  TJ   Spyke   04:07, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Move to TARDISode . —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs.  08:10, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Nobody, including the BBC and other media organisations, has called it "TARDISode". "Tardidsode" is a BBC trademark, to my knowledge seperate from the word's derivation, the Tardis. 84.92.117.93 (talk) 01:49, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * (NB: It's TARDIS, not "Tardis". —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 11:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC))
 * Then move to Tardisode, and keep redirects from every plausible spelling (three total, 2 redirs). Regardless, "TARDISODE" is obviously wrong. —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 11:46, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Move, The first question to ask is: is it pronounced tee-aye-are-dee-eye-ess-owe-dee-e or tardisode. If the answer is the latter, then comes the question if the "compound" of an acronym and a word should be capitalized "TARDISode", which fails any spelling convention I have ever come across. It is time to grow up and realize that when a new word is created based on a compound, even when one of the seeds was an acronym, then the right to use all-caps disappears. Arsenikk (talk)  11:44, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Should the article TARDIS itself be moved to "Tardis"? Nobody pronounces it "tee-aye-are-dee-eye-ess", and it is also a trademark of the BBC. I've mostly seen Tardis being used in both the mainstream and fan media, such as this article in The Times, and this article in the Daily Mail, and this article in The Independent. That "Tardis" is a fictional acronym seems a bit irrelevent, since like laser it's clearly entered popular usage, and only serious fans would knows it stands for "Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space". 84.92.117.93 (talk) 01:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Update: I've placed a move request on the article TARDIS, per my arguments above. 84.92.117.93 (talk) 18:11, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * And it's WP:SNOWBALLing right into the trashcan. Please do not attempt to distract this rename discussion with any further attempts at blatant forum shopping. —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 11:58, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, whether an acronym or initialism is capitalized doesn't have anything to do with how it is pronounced, which is usually a factor of whether it can easily be pronounced like a word or not (NASA vs. FBI). They lose their capitalization when they are largely assimilated into the language as words and most speakers are unaware of their origin as acronyms (scuba, laser, etc.) This isn't even relevant any longer, though. If the trademark is "Tardisode", then the article moves to "Tardisode". The end, nothing further to discuss. —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 02:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Tardisode. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120710065710/http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/ to http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 09:43, 21 March 2016 (UTC)