Whoisdoctorwho.co.uk

whoisdoctorwho.co.uk was the website created by Clive Finch in the early 21st century to document the Doctor in Earth's history. It was run by Mickey Smith after Clive's death during the "Dummy Massacre" and by David Roberts after Mickey remained in Pete's World.
The website carried an icon for Campaign for Real Aliens and an award from Conspiracy GOLD by April 2005 (PROSE: , , etc.) and began advertising GEOCOMTEX in 2006. (PROSE: , etc.)
According to one account, Mickey never took over the website and instead ran a blog. (PROSE: )
== Name ==
While the website had the url www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, (PROSE: ) the name of the website varied between accounts. When Rose Tyler visited it in 2005, it was under the name Doctor Who?, (TV: , PROSE: , ) although another account indicated it was called Have you seen the Doctor????????. (PROSE: ) When Mickey first began using the site, he renamed it to Who is Doctor Who? to match the url, (PROSE: , ) and by 2007, he renamed it to Defending the Earth!. (WC: Lifeboat Museum, etc.)
== History ==
=== 2005 ===
Beginning sometime around March, Clive Finch released an open call on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk for anyone who had seen the Doctor to contact him and tell their stories. He got replies from hundreds of people, including A. Fergus, Peri Brown, Arthur Dent, Mr Yates, and Sarah Jane Smith. Some of the readers, such as r willimas, met the Ninth Doctor on the very same day they wrote to Clive. (PROSE: )
The website had several photographs of the Ninth Doctor on it. (PROSE: ) On 5 March 2005, Rose found the website as the first listed result for the search term "doctor blue box" on search-wise.net. Upon accessing the site, Rose was greeted with a photograph of the Ninth Doctor standing in a crowd, accompanied by a single sentence: "Have you seen this man[?]". Beneath was a link to contact Clive. (TV: )
According to one account, in which the website was named Have you seen the Doctor????????, Rose found the website as the sixth listed result on the search engine she used, while Mickey's band No Hot Ashes worked on a new name in Mickey's kitchen, settling on "Bad Wolf". In this account, the website had a photograph of the Ninth Doctor running away from what seemed to be the Taj Mahal, with "big blurred birds" in the sky. There was a gallery of photos, primarily pictures of a curly haired man in a long scarf, taken in a variety of locations, from Paris, Berlin, Rio, the Great Wall of China, a beach, to a tundra. In three of the photos, Rose saw the same chunky wooden box. 
Rose read about Clive and his family, and his plight to find the Doctor, calling upon his readers to contact him, to send photos, anecdotes or top-secret documents, via his email address or his telephone number. Rose found an "About Me" section on the website, which contained photos of Clive and his family, one at Thorpe Park. She mused that these photos could be stolen by someone with ill-intent, but these doubts were dissuaded when she clicked the provided link to the estate agents where Clive was employed, which contained a "staff bio" about Clive. Rose emailed him, and within twenty minutes got a response and they agreed to meet. (PROSE: )
Immediately after what he called the "Dummy Massacre", (PROSE: ) following Clive Finch's death, (TV: , PROSE: , etc.) Mickey Smith (PROSE: ) took over the website anonymously and renamed it "Who is Doctor Who?". On the website, he shared stories from the site's readers who had witnessed the attack, also leaving an area for new submissions. (PROSE: ) On 2 April, the webmaster updated the site about how there was very little physical evidence of the Doctor's involvement despite the many eyewitnesses that had seen him, about the attack of a "special model" of the Killer Dummies at Kennington restaurant involving Rose and the Doctor, the growing conspiracy that involved the lack of media coverage and the willingness of people to forget the attack, the death of Clive, and the claims that millions of people heard a "strange disembodied voice" over the weekend. The webmaster emphasised his determination to prove the truth, which he valued more than his life. (PROSE: )
Later in April 2005, the website received the "website of the month" distinction from Conspiracy GOLD. (PROSE: )
=== 2006 ===
Shortly prior to the return of Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor on 6 March 2006, Mickey Smith (TV: ) wrote on the Who is Doctor Who website after not posting for a while, where he revealed that he had been taken in for questioning again, despite the police's lack of evidence as well as his discovery of evidence to the contrary, an old photograph of Rose and the Doctor present in 1869 Cardiff, (PROSE: ) a time period which Rose and the Doctor did travel to, (TV: ) although the police didn't look at the photograph properly and believed it wasn't real. This culminated in Mickey giving up trying to convince them, however Mickey was relieved that Rose was at least was safe, despite being "out of reach". Mickey continued on, expressing his belief that a government conspiracy was growing since MP Joseph Green's weight gain, and that he was scared that he may be arrested again, and admits that the only thing keeping him going was the support and belief in him from his readers. (PROSE: )
After Mickey ran off when Rose and the Doctor were escorted to 10 Downing Street on 6 March 2006, (TV: ) under the alias "Mx", he wrote on the Who is Doctor Who? website about the crash, ecstatic about how he and Clive would finally be believed about the Doctor — how where he goes, danger and death follows — and how the government would have no choice but to respond to alien life, unable to deny it any longer. He shared pictures of the spaceship and its pilot, convinced that it wasn't a hoax, despite not knowing many specifics about the alien itself. He was glad that everyone knew he was innocent, lovingly welcomed Rose back, and asked his readers for their stories of the crash. (PROSE: )
The day following the defeat of the Slitheen family on 7 March, (TV: ) Mickey again wrote on his website, about how he helped the Doctor, coming to believe that the Doctor did mean well but was still presumably indirectly responsible for the events unfolding in the first place. He also confessed to the times he began doubting the evidence he had collected, as well as the shadowy organisation UNIT now had "a dotcom" as well as the computer virus given to him by the Doctor and his unwillingness to use it. He also asked his readers for their stories of the day preceding as well as telling them to go to the secure parts of the UNIT website before the passwords were changed. (PROSE: )
A week later, Mickey released an interview he conducted with US dotcom giant Henry Van Statten about his thoughts on aliens. Van Statten spoke about the willingness of "small mind[ed]" people to forget the "unacceptable situation" and his vested interest in collecting alien artefacts, of which he divuleges the existence of the Gray Market and some of the leftovers left by those who visited Earth. After the interview concluded, Mickey announced a competition for a pile of Geocomtex Hardware, as generously provided by Van Statten, which would be the prize for the best response to the prompt: "Why I want to meet an alien." (PROSE: )
The following week, Mickey wrote on the website again, revealing the winner of the essay competition to be fourteen-year-old Adam Mitchell. Mickey also wrote about how, now that his name had been cleared, people around the estate were being more "helpful" to Mickey. Jackie, Rose's mother, had found an old video of a wedding from the 1980s and shared it with Mickey, and upon watching it, he found that the Doctor and Rose were visible, leading to him to speculate about the Doctor's intentions. (PROSE: )
At this point, Sergeant Catherine Petts submitted a report on one of the secure operations boards which detailed www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk having sensitive information which compromised the security of the UNIT website. Sergeant J Frinkstein changed the passwords to the site, though Major Jenny Maguire's suggestion to plant misinformation onto the site was seemingly denied by Sergeant A. Frederick. (PROSE: )
A week after the Cardiff Earthquake in September 2006, (TV: , PROSE: , ) Mickey wrote on the Who is Doctor Who? website, not giving much heed to his help in saving the world, as he felt dejected with coming to terms with his relationship with Rose Tyler being over. (PROSE: )
In late 2006, months later, Mickey wrote about how he felt Rose had died (PROSE: ) following her short return to Earth after the Ninth Doctor sent Rose away from the Game Station before the ensuing Dalek attack and subsequent return to the future after breaking into the TARDIS and absorbing the Time Vortex through the TARDIS's heart and becoming Bad Wolf, (TV: ) and that Daffodil had informed him that the Guinevere probe was hiding something, which Mickey became convinced of when he investigated the Guinevere website despite initially not thinking much of a seemingly mundane Mars probe. However, he was unable to investigate further, until Christmas Day. He told his readers, in the meantime, to remember the truth of the alien attacks. (PROSE: )
=== 2007 ===
The readers of the website were contacted by Ricky Smith, a native of Pete's World, instead of Mickey as usual, who told them they had to look on the Internet for a code to take down Cybus Industries. (WC: ) After going into a chatroom to speak with "ChatGuest1", the readers were sent across the Internet to find the correct code, going to websites belonging to International Electromatics, Cybus Industries, Cybus Fitness, Henrik & Son, and Millingdale. They eventually found the correct password, "binary9", after using the Cybus Industries Staff Intranet. (GAME: )
After Mickey remained in Pete's World to fight off the Cybermen, (TV: ) David Roberts, (PROSE: Lights In The Sky) aka David R, took over the website, having previously met Mickey. He announced on his Cheapserve profile that he was leaving the site to focus on (PROSE: ) Defending the Earth!. (GAME: , etc.)
When the Tenth Doctor looked up H.C. Clements on a mobile phone on Christmas Eve 2007, one of the pages he went past when he used his sonic screwdriver on the phone was Defending the Earth!, which had an interview with Henry van Statten. (TV: )
=== Undated events ===
Clive Finch's website was mentioned in The Secret Lives of Monsters, a book written to expose the previously classified information surrounding Earth's alien invasions; the book's author acknowledged the updates to the website even after Clive's death, and that if the information that was contained on the website was truthful, then it "impl[ied] a terrifying possibility" that the Nestene Consciousness was collective mind that controlled plastic and had a long-spanning history of the colonisation of other planets for millions of years. (PROSE: )
== Behind the scenes ==
The BBC Web Team created a real-life version of the in-universe Who is Doctor Who? website, which is available at whoisdoctorwho.co.uk. This website included a variety of fiction as well as an alternate reality game.
=== Other information ===
* The name of the website being "Doctor Who?" was mentioned by Rebecca Levene in her review of Rose.DWM 355 - After-Image
== Footnotes ==
 
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