# Talk:Doctor Who specials (2008–2010)

I am just curious into finding out why that this page along with the Discussion/Talk page was moved to a newer page. What was wrong with the previous page?
Docwhoaza93 (talk) 09:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

it was to change the dash (-) to a hyphen (–) Etron81 (talk) 17:21, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
One might argue that "2009 specials" is the common name here, despite not being technically accurate. I know that's what I've always called them, and would bet most other people do too. --DocNox (talk) 03:29, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I've removed Steven Moffat's name from the writers column for End of Time: Part 2. This is mainly because it misrepresents the writing of the episode and implies both writers wrote significant portions to the episode. I feel it is something that is appropriately covered in the article itself. I'm fine with The Fires of Pompeii (Series 4) and Impossible Planet/Satan Pit (series 2) to have the uncredited writer because they contributed heavily to the episode. I don't think it would be appropriate to add Steven Moffat's name to The God Complex & Closing Time (both Series 6) just because he wrote the final scenes of those episodes. If you disagree, please discuss.  The Windler  talk  11:23, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I noticed that The End of Time takes up two rows in the episode summary box. While this is understandable, as it is a two episode story, I find it odd. Unlike all of the other multi episode stories made since the show's revival in 2005, this one has only one overall title as opposed to each episode having its own title. As such, this story in particular is treated more like a classic serial on Wikipedia; the title is italicised instead of put in quotation marks, and it has only one article for the story as a whole as opposed to one for each episode. However, the summary box for each classic season has only one row for each story instead of one for each episode of each story. Because of this, I think it would be a good idea to condense the two rows in the episode summary box dedicated to The End of Time into one, for consistency. — The Mighty Trought (talk) 05:17, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

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Hi guys
The reason why I keep deleting the references is due to the fact that no other Doctor Who series page has references in their main bios. Just thought I'd throw this out in the open. JackWhovian (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


### Doctor Who (2008–2010 specials)
All the modern Doctor Who entries beginning in 2005 should be on one page and list all episodes, specials, shorts, etc. chronologically and, within the list, noted as part of a series, special, etc.  This entry on the specials highlights this problem since there are a lot of "specials" that relate to a series, or the time of year (e.g. Christmas) so the reader trying to track them has a very difficult time following the Wikipedia scheme. 108.51.114.180 (talk) 21:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

These episodes are official televised television episodes - all of these can be found, in aired order, at List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present). Non-televised episodes are included elsewhere; we don't need one single list of all "canon" material. -- Alex_21 TALK 22:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)