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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)


:::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)


::::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 ==


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)


== RFA ==
== RFA ==
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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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== Deletions ==
== Deletions ==


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)
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)
:Yeah, I wasn't sure if this policy is officially in effect already. Sorry. :(
:Yeah, I wasn't sure if this policy is officially in effect already. Sorry. :(
: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)
: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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:No problem. I deleted the stuff about the "Cylon War" series, since it doesn't appear on their website. I think it was announced somewhere though. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:05, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
:No problem. I deleted the stuff about the "Cylon War" series, since it doesn't appear on their website. I think it was announced somewhere though. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:05, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
== Do you like the episode "tigh me up tigh me down"? ==
what was your favourite part in it? did you like the part under the table between ellen Tigh and lee adama? I really did! Do you know where i can get an image of it? ([[User:Pooh the hat|Pooh the hat]] 03:59, 8 October 2007 (CDT))
== Screenshots ==
I was wondering, what software do you use for taking screenshots?  --[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 13:50, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
:[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC] --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 13:52, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
::Thanks!--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 17:27, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
:::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)
== Past versus present tense. ==
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}}
: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.
: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)
::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 &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 02:08, 8 November 2007 (CST)
:::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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