Editing User talk:Philwelch

==Your fight with [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]]==

Gentlemen: rather than reverting each other's edits on [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], please attempt a civilized discussion on the article's [[Talk:Cylons|talk page]]. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 15:04, 31 August 2005 (EDT)

== Character Data Template ==

Uh... Whatever you changed seems to've broken several pages. I don't understand whatever code that is that's used in the template, but would you take another look at it and see what's going wrong with, for instance, [[William Adama]]? Much appriciated. --[[User:Day|Day]] 00:25, 9 December 2005 (EST)

I may've figured it out playing with my user page. I had to add seriven in the right place and even if I left it undefined, it tamed the problem. Now we have to go in and put it into all the pages that use the template though. Ugh. Do we even know anyone's Service Number? --[[User:Day|Day]] 00:36, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:I thought I fixed that problem in the template. Let me see what I can do. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 03:48, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:Yeah. It's not a problem anymore, try clearing your cache. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 03:50, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:: I just checked [[William Adama]] and did a shift-reload to no avail. It think it's because he needs to have ''servicen'' declared, even if not value is given in order for the code not to freak out and show up at the top. What made you think to add this in? Did someone mentioned their Service Number on screen? --[[User:Day|Day]] 03:54, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:::'''I''' just checked [[William Adama]] and it looks fine to me. And for the record, we have the service numbers of Helo and Boomer. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 03:56, 9 December 2005 (EST)

[[image:Whoops.jpg|thumb|right|A screen shot of the error [[User:Day|Day]] is seeing. Specifically, the odd text above the template proper.]]
:::: I've included a screen shot. I've done the cache clear. I'm not sure what's up. Maybe it will just go away in a day or so. Anyway, now you can see what I'm seeing, though I don't know if that'll do any good. *shrug* I fixed it on my user-page, though, by adding the field with no data. Oh well. Let's give it some time, see if it goes away for me or no. --[[User:Day|Day]] 04:06, 9 December 2005 (EST)

That's strange. I see no such thing. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 04:19, 9 December 2005 (EST)

: Philwelch, you need to go in and add "|servicen=" (sans quotes) into each and every page that uses the template, otherwise it will print out the code.  As for how many people we can actually use these in, I imagine only two: Boomer and Helo. (Boomer's service number was on her uniform jacket tag in "Water" and Helo said it after he was captured by Six.) -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 09:38, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:: I did a quick search on "character data", and it appears there are just shy of 70 pages that use the character data template.  --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:18, 9 December 2005 (EST)

::: Just go to [[Template:Character Data]] and click on "What links here" in the toolbox on the left margin.  It'll show all the pages that use the template. -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 14:19, 9 December 2005 (EST)

You're both seeing the same thing Day is? [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 13:34, 9 December 2005 (EST)

: No, but Joe commented serviceen out of the template.  I never got a chance to see it before it being commented, but Joe seemed to think that the "|serviceen=" would need to be added to them all.  Which isn't really all that flexible as a template (if you're still having to edit each and every page that template is on).  --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:42, 9 December 2005 (EST)

:: I agree -- it's a technical limitation I had to concede to when I created the template. -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 14:19, 9 December 2005 (EST)

Forget it then. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 13:43, 9 December 2005 (EST)

That's strange, the problem appears in Firefox but not in Safari. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 13:55, 9 December 2005 (EST)

: Safari and Firefox use different rendering engines, which would explain the issue. -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 14:19, 9 December 2005 (EST)

==Philwelch/Adama==
Should I go ahead and delete [[User:Philwelch/Adama]]? I think it was created as a pseudo-sandbox for character template work, so if you're done with that I thought we might as well clean that up. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:18, 14 January 2006 (EST)
:Sure. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 17:08, 14 January 2006 (EST)
==Silly Quotes==
There is a discussion started [[Battlestar_Wiki_talk:Quotes#To_Mix_Up_the_Group | here]]. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 17:51, 9 September 2006 (CDT)
:The quote you keep trying to used for 9/9 has already been used for 10/1. That's the reason I reverted it yesterday, not due to the silly quote business. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 05:34, 10 September 2006 (CDT)

== Recent rollback ==

Philwelch, I rolled back your recent entries to [[The Music]]. Your notes do not match Ron Moore's explanation of the music's origin and resumed commonality to the series' counterpart to Earth (noted in the same section), and causes the article to be self-argumentative as a result. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:29, 31 March 2007 (CDT)
:I haven't been around for awhile because of other things, but I just restored it. There's a difference between suggesting plotwise that they're picking up an Earth radio signal, and suggesting a thematic connection. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 07:15, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

== Rollback: [[The Music]] ==

Philwelch, I rolled back your additions to this article because (1) the edits make the article self-argumentative, which is against our [[BW:SAC|conventions policy]], and (2) [[Ron D. Moore]] has noted in his [[Podcast:Crossroads, Part II|last podcast]] and in interviews that the music ''does'' have a cosmic source, but it's not Earth itself. We shouldn't "defy" what the series creator says in this matter. '''Please do not re-add this contribution.''' -- [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 09:51, 19 April 2007 (CDT) <sup>([[User_Talk:Spencerian|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Spencerian|Contrib Skillz]] - [[Special:Editcount/Spencerian|Edit Skillz]])</sup>
:I never said the music's source was earth, and it doesn't make the article self-argumentative. There is no contradiction. 
'''Please do not revert my contribution again''', '''especially''' since I've added an outside source. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 15:40, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
::If there's self-argumentation, it may be RDM's fault anyway:
::"And the idea was, and it still is, that there are connections between their world and our world." (from the podcast)
::So he is saying, "It's not a transmission from Earth," but yet that there is is some sort of (as yet unexplained) connection. I'm not sure if by "our world" he's saying "Earth" or saying present day earth/reality. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:59, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
:::I suspect Spencerian doesn't understand the distinction between theme and plot. Thematically, "All Along The Watchtower" DOES suggest a connection to Earth—there's no other reason for including it—even though, plotwise, the music may not originate from Earth. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 16:01, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
::::The problem, as I read, involved primarily that you had generally repeated the same information in the article without a source, and it read poorly as edited with the original cite and source. Now that you have another, stronger citation, I've revised the references to unify both points (the original reference on Moore's decision was from McCreary's blog, but yours has a stronger citation with a direct quote). Concision is always preferable, IMO -- [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 16:04, 19 April 2007 (CDT) <sup>([[User_Talk:Spencerian|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Spencerian|Contrib Skillz]] - [[Special:Editcount/Spencerian|Edit Skillz]])</sup>
:::::The problem is that you don't understand the distinction between theme and plot, and saw a contradiction where there was none. I shouldn't have even needed a reference to make such an obvious point (well, obvious to those of us who understand how fiction works), but I happened to find one today and felt it would somewhat force the point. [[User:Philwelch|Philwelch]] 16:06, 19 April 2007 (CDT)