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| ::Tis ok. We are only human. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:21, 10 October 2006 (CDT) | | ::Tis ok. We are only human. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:21, 10 October 2006 (CDT) |
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| :::Didn't there used to be some kind of edit conflict warning when you submitted an edit from an old diff? --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 16:23, 10 October 2006 (CDT) | | :::Didn't there used to be some kind of edit conflict warning when you submitted an edit from an old diff? --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 16:23, 10 October 2006 (CDT) |
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| ::::Not during "rollback". --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:26, 10 October 2006 (CDT) | | ::::Not during "rollback". --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:26, 10 October 2006 (CDT) |
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| == New Caprica == | | == New Caprica == |
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| Thanks for your help cleaning up [[New Caprica]]. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 18:36, 29 October 2006 (CST) | | Thanks for your help cleaning up [[New Caprica]]. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:36, 29 October 2006 (CST) |
| :No problem. I thought that the last part was kind of a duplicate of the "Battle of New Caprica" article, but wasn't sure how far to cut it down --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:48, 29 October 2006 (CST) | | :No problem. I thought that the last part was kind of a duplicate of the "Battle of New Caprica" article, but wasn't sure how far to cut it down --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:48, 29 October 2006 (CST) |
| ::Feel free to cut it down further, if you want. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 20:07, 29 October 2006 (CST) | | ::Feel free to cut it down further, if you want. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:07, 29 October 2006 (CST) |
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| | Thank you for participating in my [[BW:RFA|RfA]], which passed with a tally of '''7/0/0'''. Thank you very much for your support. I'll continue to keep up the good work, and if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to contact me. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 15:57, 21 April 2007 (CDT) | | | Thank you for participating in my [[BW:RFA|RfA]], which passed with a tally of '''7/0/0'''. Thank you very much for your support. I'll continue to keep up the good work, and if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to contact me. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 15:57, 21 April 2007 (CDT) |
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| Helps. It notices they are bad links... and it has to compensate for that. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 17:05, 17 June 2007 (CDT) | | Helps. It notices they are bad links... and it has to compensate for that. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 17:05, 17 June 2007 (CDT) |
| :Ah right. Totally forgot about that :s --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:30, 17 June 2007 (CDT) | | :Ah right. Totally forgot about that :s --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:30, 17 June 2007 (CDT) |
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| [[User talk:Amfulay|Move is done]]. Please let the user know that the name has been changed by email just in case they don't immediately return. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
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| :Yeah, I saw it. I emailed him already, saying that it will be taken care of. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:19, 21 June 2007 (CDT)
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| Just so you know, something like Pegasus' is actually allowed in modern English, although it's still pronounced as Pegasus's. The s-less form is a more recent development, and I agree with you that Pegasus's is more consistent. Pegasus', however ugly, is allowed, though. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:41, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
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| :Mhhh, alright. But we use apostrophe-s for its plural here, so it's better to stick to that. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 15:46, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
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| Please, please, PLEASE do not delete articles stating "per consensus on talk page" or similar, and delete the talk page mere seconds later. Not only is this very confusing for non-sysops who haven't seen the full discussion (e.g. me), it's also policy to leave the talk page intact, per [[Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Deletion Archives#Formal Vote|this discussion]]. Please restore [[Talk:Threa Sita]] (and move it to [[Talk:Thera Sita]]) and Talk:Apple iPatch. Also, you might wanna see [[Threa Sita/Thwhatever Sita]] which has slightly more content (you might wanna merge some stuff). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 06:07, 2 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :Yeah, I wasn't sure if this policy is officially in effect already. Sorry. :(
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| :I don't have time now, but I will get to it later. And I left out that content deliberately, because it's just retelling the episode. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:12, 2 July 2007 (CDT)
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| OK, cool! Just one question though. I've tried using the template you mentioned but the number of the citing wasn't correct. It should have been 13 but came out 6, or something like that. Any idea where I might have gone wrong? {{unsigned|Helo87}}
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| :The numbering is caused by the ref tags and done automatically. It depends on the order of the references. If you insert a reference somewhere inbetween, the others after it will change, so you can't really influence it the way you want. But there is no need to worry about it, as the exact number of a reference doesn't really matter. Just that it has one. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:18, 9 July 2007 (CDT)
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| Thanks for the add on the Crew facilities page on Joe's Bar...I was trying to remember other times it had been used for other things and I was WAY too tired to be thinking about anything!--[[User:RUSnooky|RUSnooky]] 10:14, 10 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :No problem. :) The refugee camp is technically another use, but I don't think it should go here, as it's for the civilians and not the crew. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:21, 10 July 2007 (CDT)
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| ::I had the exact same thought. If we do that I think we'd have to add the launch tubes as execution chambers too :)--[[User:RUSnooky|RUSnooky]] 11:19, 10 July 2007 (CDT)
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| == Archiving ==
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| It's good you're adding the ArchiveBot to pages, but you should make sure the archive points to Talk:(insertpagehere), not User_Talk:Serenity. If you don't make sure of that, pages like [[Talk:Crossroads, Part II]] would be put into an archive on your user talk page. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 20:38, 13 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :EEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!! I copied the code from my page. Thanks for reminding me. Thankfully the bot isn't always on :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 04:59, 14 July 2007 (CDT)
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| What'd I do wrong on the copy paste for GuyIncognito? I saw where it dropped a lot of it into the comments section on recent changes, but something else I need to know?--[[User:RUSnooky|RUSnooky]] 10:23, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :You copied it from your user page, right? Because instead of his user name, yours was there :) Btw, you can just use a the template <nowiki>{{welcome|Username}}</nowiki> instead.
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| :But it's not as bad as my recent copy/paste job where I accidentally told the archive bot to archive several pages to my own talk page. Fortunately it wasn't running. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:30, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
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| ::Yeah, I just noticed that I was answering his question about fanfiction. What a dumbass I am. Maybe nexttime I write to you I'll sign it Serentiy :)--[[User:RUSnooky|RUSnooky]] 10:32, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :::Don't worry. Nothing bad happened. Just use the welcome template next time. Less work anyways :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:36, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
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| Thanks for the quick revert and block on the misguided sap. The person in question has attempted to get under my skin for sometime now -- which in itself is extremely sad, actually, and rather hilarious to boot! Much obliged. :-) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 14:56, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :Dude's an ass. Jealousy perhaps? -- [[User:Veepz|Veepz]] 15:04, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| ::I likely banned the person in question from WP during my active period there. He probably has nothing better to do. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 15:13, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :::The guy's definitely got some nerve, vandalizing your user page. Pity for him anons don't get move rights, or you would've been at [[User:Loser]] or [[User:Pornlover]] right now ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:49, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :Ewww stalkers. I guess those aren't losers at all. He really owned you there. ;) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:14, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :: ROFL! :-) Again, I'm most amused by this. Particularly since it's all ancient history at this point. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 16:19, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| I think you need to edit the welcome template some more, I can't do it. It says "by enter fouring tides". Perhaps "by entering four tides" would be better? -- [[User:Veepz|Veepz]] 16:25, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :Frak! Thanks for telling me. Cursor must have jumped somehow :( --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:28, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| :: Hehe, no worries, it has happened to me on numerous occasions. :-) -- [[User:Veepz|Veepz]] 16:30, 31 July 2007 (CDT)
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| Um, why am I no longer a wikipedian? [[User:Durandal|Durandal]] 08:33, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :Because we decided that we are [[Category talk:Wikipedians|not really Wikipedians]] and so the category was changed to "Galactipedian". That happened in June already. I just got around to changing the users who added the category by hand and so weren't affected by the automatic change. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:35, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| ::Duly noted. Meanwhile, as I happen to be (at least in theory) a wikipedian and a galactipedian, I will be re-adding the former. As a side note, it might be a good idea to acutally use the summary field in such cases, as it cuts down on the "HUH?" moments... TheEverRampant [[User:Durandal|Durandal]] 08:40, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :::Yeah, but it wasn't just you I changed as [[Special:Recentchanges]] shows. So not making an edit summary for all was just laziness :(
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| :::I understand that you might see yourself as a Wikipedian in the sense as being on the actual Wikipedia, but that's not really what the category was about. It was just users of this wiki and merely used the Wikipedia name. I deleted the category, but I can restore without all the sub categories, so people who think they are true Wikipedians can use it. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:45, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :::: Laziness gets the best of all of us at times.... meh. Meanwhile, the whole reason I ever added that tag was because I thought that was what that catagory was about. Considering my lack of activity recently, amongst other factors, I'm not going to ask/demand that a catagory be created solely on my whim. [[User:Durandal|Durandal]] 08:56, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :::::Well, there was at least one other person who likes the idea of all wikis falling under the "Wikipedia" header. I won't restore all the sub categories, so it's no hassle. That there is some confusion about its meaning just shows that doing something about it was a good idea. And while some people are also Wikipedia editors, not all who added the category are. The intended meaning was more "Battlestar Wiki users". --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:03, 16 August 2007 (CDT)
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| == [[Troy]] --> [[Troy (1980)]] conversion ==
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| The next time you do such a conversion, it would be nice if you marked the edits as minor and specified <code><nowiki>[[Troy]] --> [[Troy (1980]]</nowiki></code> in the edit summary. That may seem like a lot of work, but if you have any browser at all you'll only have to type it out in full once. This little addition makes these trivial changes much easier to spot in [[Special:Recentchanges]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:55, 19 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :See, above. I'm just lazy :(
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| :But to be honest, once you checked one edit with "diff", you know what the others are all about, because they all have the same changed characters. So I don't see that it's a big mystery. You are right on the major/minor thing though. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:09, 19 August 2007 (CDT)
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| ::And you're right about the summary thing, although most users are just as lazy as you are ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:15, 19 August 2007 (CDT)
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| aussi is without the "e", but thanks, I'll keep it in mind ;) --[[User:Aerelon|Aerelon]] 10:22, 27 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :Merde! I was just kidding, by the way. There is nothing wrong with talking/typing in another language on one's talk page :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:27, 27 August 2007 (CDT)
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| ::As long as the adressee (i.e. the owner of the talk page) understands what's written, it's fine by me. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:44, 27 August 2007 (CDT)
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| Look at where they are already. Seven weeks and nobody noticed xD. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:25, 27 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :Not even the US airdate gets updated regularly (just noticed that earlier). No one cares about re-runs :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:27, 27 August 2007 (CDT)
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| I just noticed that those pages are not being archive. I am trying to figure it out. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 19:34, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :No problem. For now I can deal with it :)
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| :Btw, while you are at it, there is also an error on [[Talk:The Twelve Colonies (RDM)]] with some very old stuff still there. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:22, 5 September 2007 (CDT)
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| Not typos, just not American English :P. I wont revert the changes back however. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:24, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :I didn't think about then, but just noticed it in my Firefox spell checker and "corrected" it :) Thinking about it, I know that it's not wrong, but we still prefer AE here. And I knew about "recognize/recognise", but didn't realize that "sceptical" is BE. That really looked wrong to me. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:39, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| ::Hmm, somehow 'sceptical' looks more logical to me than 'skeptical', but I guess that's because I'm Dutch and Serenity's German (many Dutch k's were changed to c's in the 1995 spelling revision). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:47, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :::Probably. It's written with 'k' here. Mhhh...I can actually see both, but languages don't make that much sense sometimes. German, English and Dutch all have common roots, but a lot of the details changed over the centuries. Anyways, this was just a result of me having an AE spell checker installed. I didn't edit the article because I noticed the "typos", but because of the series titles and while doing that I noticed the spell checker marking two words. Then I just wrote "typos" in the edit summary. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:59, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| ::::We all know what you mean. Sometimes I get a little patriotic about British English thats all hehe. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:42, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :::::I know all about languages not making sense sometimes: try German declinations ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:41, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| ::::::Das ist richtig. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 15:24, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| ::::::Yeah, German grammar is weird sometimes. But so is French. French seems to have more irregular than regular verbs. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:16, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :::::::True. German is one of the few languages that has rules for irregular verbs, makes life a little easier xD --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:44, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
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| == We use it, we don't use it... ==
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| Sorry for my rapid change of mind regarding the production-readiness of [[Template:Podcast Data]]. After thinking about it for a minute, I concluded that the template is actually pretty production-ready. We shouldn't add it to each and every podcast page just yet, though, as we might wanna call a vote on it first. I'll add it to [[Podcast:Frak Party Q and A]] as a special podcast showcase. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:12, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
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| :No problem. Though I don't see the need for a formal vote really, as it will likely pass easily. Maybe a section on the talk page asking for some final comments and opinions before implementation. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:08, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
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| nice work on the Dynamite Comics! good working with you. [[User:Jeffrywith1e|Jeffrywith1e]] 11:58, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
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| == Do you like the episode "tigh me up tigh me down"? ==
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| I was wondering, what software do you use for taking screenshots? --[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 13:50, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
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| :[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC] --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 13:52, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
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| ::Thanks!--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 17:27, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
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| :::Yeah, it's a good program for it, I use it as well. *curses and grumbles about his broken dvd drive* --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 19:22, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
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| Yesterday I overhauled the "Fall of the Scorpion Shipyards" page and when I visited the page today I found that it had been converted to present tense. I'm pretty sure that an encyclopedia is ''always'' supposed to use past tense, but I don't want to change anything and then find that the whole article has been re-converted to present tense. I really don't want to sound uptight but I think that we should enforce academic standards like they do over at Memory Alpha (i.e. always use past tense). {{unsigned|Helo87}}
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| :We do things a bit differently here. See the relevant section of [[BW:SAC]]. In general we use present tense for everything but events prior to the Miniseries. "Razor" is somewhat of an exception to this. Though the events take place concurrently, until now we used past tense for them, as they were only told second hand. Now that we've seen them on screen, that doesn't make much sense anymore.
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| :I know that MA does it differently, but personally it seems to odd to me now. I also don't care for their "pretend historian" approach. They even use the past tense for things that take place in the "present" of the story; like for people aren't dead yet. This isn't a real encyclopedia. Using past tense to document fictional events seems odd somehow. In reviewing things I often use present tense for books that are written in the past tense, though I find myself alternating in tenses now and then. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 02:02, 8 November 2007 (CST)
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| ::To add my two cents here, we are documenting a fictional series here, not real history. My personal feeling is that the present tense tends to draw in the reader much more than the past tense, it makes the experience much more visceral. Not to mention the fact that it also directly mirrors how events are shown in the series, with the exception of the "Razor" stuff. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 02:08, 8 November 2007 (CST)
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| :::After using present-tense for the past few days I have become much more tolerant of it. I think that past-tense will always sound more poignant, but I realize that present-tense is much more useful/exciting in the context of this wiki. Now I wouldn't be able to imagine any of the battle pages without it! --Helo87
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