Thread:Tupka217/@comment-188432-20120331235620

Hey just noticed that we got into a bit of an edit conflict at "Insecurity". Don't want it to come across that we're in some sort of an edit war, so it's probably more helpful to talk to you about it.

I think it's important to note that it's not a TARDIS. This is a case where "keeping it simple" means that you're factually wrong. It's a police box. We see the interior, which has all the trappings of a police box. By saying it's a TARDIS, it makes you seem a little ignorant of history. Our page, tardis:police box, explains all this in the first two paragraphs, so it's a link that will educate your readers better than tardis:TARDIS. That page isn't even about the police box-shaped TARDIS that the Doctor uses and is the focus of the show. It's about TARDISes in general, which can take on any shape.

I think it's important, too, to point out that they're almost certainly using the image in an illegal way, because the BBC owns everything about police boxes, even to the point that the Metropolitan Police need to get permission from the BBC to use the image for what is, after all, their original creation. There is a legal issue involved with using the police box, and I think it's important to note that. Doctor Who fans, will be wondering how the hell Warner Bros. got away with this, because it's not actually legal parody, and it's not an historical usage of a British police box in a British location. It's a police box in a serious story set in the middle of America, where there never were police boxes. How Warner Bros. got away with using it is therefore a question that needs to be noted for future exploration.

As I said, though, I'm really more of a visitor here, so do what you will.  