Our style page includes the following advice aimed to standardise Doctor Who articles:
This infobox is an example of how {{ Infobox Doctor Who episode}} should be filled in. Production codes should be used where available. For the new series, we should follow the production team's designation of series and episode. The story numbers are only used to give an idea of where the story stands in the overall context of the series. The numbering scheme should reflect that used in Doctor Who Magazine issue 407's reader poll, "The Mighty 200!", which reflects current internal practice.
175 – "The Girl in the Fireplace" | |||
---|---|---|---|
Doctor Who episode | |||
![]() The Doctor searches Madame de Pompadour's mind. | |||
Cast | |||
Guest
| |||
Production | |||
Directed by | Euros Lyn | ||
Written by | Steven Moffat | ||
Script editor | Helen Raynor | ||
Produced by | Phil Collinson | ||
Executive producer(s) |
Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner | ||
Production code | 2.4 | ||
Series | Series 2 | ||
Running time | 45 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 6 May 2006 | ||
Chronology | |||
| |||
An episode article should be set out roughly to the advice below; however, this is not set in stone and the structure may be altered depending on the amount of available source material.
Sarah Jane Smith (
Elisabeth Sladen)
, or
Sarah Jane Smith (Sladen)
if Sladen is mentioned in the lead as portraying Sarah Jane).Because most Doctor Who images are not under a free license, they must be used judiciously with regard to the non-free content criteria. The non-free content guideline also offers guidance. Between them, the policy and the guideline offer two salient pieces of guidance:
While this guidance is vague and has led to countless disputes in the past, precedents have formed regarding how non-free media should be used on Doctor Who articles:
However, in some cases, we are able to use free media in Doctor Who articles. While the rules regarding free media are less strict, to make sure that the article is of the best possible quality, do not overload the article with free images with no relation to the text; instead, include pictures of actors/personalities in casting sections and recognisable pictures of filming location in filming sections; e.g. "The Stolen Earth": Casting and "Planet of the Dead": Filming.
If it is possible to locate where episodes have been filmed, you may want to include this in an episode article for interested readers. The current practice of doing so is:
<ref group="location" name="referencename">Footnote</ref>
, or <ref group="location" name="referencename" />
if a reference is referred to twice.{{
coord|a|b|region:c_type:landmark}}
, where:
a
denotes the
latitude of the location in decimal formatb
denotes the
longitude of the location in decimal formatc
denotes the
ISO 3166-2 code of the location; most of these are preceded by
GB-
, but this should be changed where filming took place abroad. Common codes are:
GB-HMF
for
Hammersmith and Fulham (the
BBC Television Centre in the
White City)GB-EAL
for the
London Borough of Ealing (
Ealing Studios)GB-CRF
for
CardiffGB-VGL
for the
Vale of Glamorgan (
Penarth,
Southerndown,
Bridgend,
Barry)GB-RCT
for
Rhondda Cynon Taff (
Upper Boat studios,
Pontypridd)GB-NWP
for
Newport===Filming locations===
and include the code {{
reflist|2|group=location}}
below it.Due to Doctor Who's history, there may be ambiguity in discussing episodes. The following terms should be used consistently across Doctor Who entries as appropriate.
Our style page includes the following advice aimed to standardise Doctor Who articles:
This infobox is an example of how {{ Infobox Doctor Who episode}} should be filled in. Production codes should be used where available. For the new series, we should follow the production team's designation of series and episode. The story numbers are only used to give an idea of where the story stands in the overall context of the series. The numbering scheme should reflect that used in Doctor Who Magazine issue 407's reader poll, "The Mighty 200!", which reflects current internal practice.
175 – "The Girl in the Fireplace" | |||
---|---|---|---|
Doctor Who episode | |||
![]() The Doctor searches Madame de Pompadour's mind. | |||
Cast | |||
Guest
| |||
Production | |||
Directed by | Euros Lyn | ||
Written by | Steven Moffat | ||
Script editor | Helen Raynor | ||
Produced by | Phil Collinson | ||
Executive producer(s) |
Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner | ||
Production code | 2.4 | ||
Series | Series 2 | ||
Running time | 45 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 6 May 2006 | ||
Chronology | |||
| |||
An episode article should be set out roughly to the advice below; however, this is not set in stone and the structure may be altered depending on the amount of available source material.
Sarah Jane Smith (
Elisabeth Sladen)
, or
Sarah Jane Smith (Sladen)
if Sladen is mentioned in the lead as portraying Sarah Jane).Because most Doctor Who images are not under a free license, they must be used judiciously with regard to the non-free content criteria. The non-free content guideline also offers guidance. Between them, the policy and the guideline offer two salient pieces of guidance:
While this guidance is vague and has led to countless disputes in the past, precedents have formed regarding how non-free media should be used on Doctor Who articles:
However, in some cases, we are able to use free media in Doctor Who articles. While the rules regarding free media are less strict, to make sure that the article is of the best possible quality, do not overload the article with free images with no relation to the text; instead, include pictures of actors/personalities in casting sections and recognisable pictures of filming location in filming sections; e.g. "The Stolen Earth": Casting and "Planet of the Dead": Filming.
If it is possible to locate where episodes have been filmed, you may want to include this in an episode article for interested readers. The current practice of doing so is:
<ref group="location" name="referencename">Footnote</ref>
, or <ref group="location" name="referencename" />
if a reference is referred to twice.{{
coord|a|b|region:c_type:landmark}}
, where:
a
denotes the
latitude of the location in decimal formatb
denotes the
longitude of the location in decimal formatc
denotes the
ISO 3166-2 code of the location; most of these are preceded by
GB-
, but this should be changed where filming took place abroad. Common codes are:
GB-HMF
for
Hammersmith and Fulham (the
BBC Television Centre in the
White City)GB-EAL
for the
London Borough of Ealing (
Ealing Studios)GB-CRF
for
CardiffGB-VGL
for the
Vale of Glamorgan (
Penarth,
Southerndown,
Bridgend,
Barry)GB-RCT
for
Rhondda Cynon Taff (
Upper Boat studios,
Pontypridd)GB-NWP
for
Newport===Filming locations===
and include the code {{
reflist|2|group=location}}
below it.Due to Doctor Who's history, there may be ambiguity in discussing episodes. The following terms should be used consistently across Doctor Who entries as appropriate.