User talk:Serenity - Revision history

JubalHarshaw: /* I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete. */

2009-04-25T18:17:08Z

I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete.

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	:I saw this on the recent changes and took care of it. Will let [[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] know on his talk page, and suggest he post on the [[BW:CN\|Chief's noticeboard]] for fastest resolution. Also, hi from another Brown Coat. [[User:JubalHarshaw\|JubalHarshaw]] 18:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)		:I saw this on the recent changes and took care of it. Will let [[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] know on his talk page, and suggest he post on the [[BW:CN\|Chief's noticeboard]] in the future for fastest resolution. Also, hi from another Brown Coat. [[User:JubalHarshaw\|JubalHarshaw]] 18:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

JubalHarshaw: /* I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete. */ - got it

2009-04-25T18:16:41Z

I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete.: - got it

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	The problem is that in my gusto, I forgot to export it as JPEG. Not wanting to waste our bandwidth, I exported it as JPEG and uploaded the much smaller JPEG to the wiki. This just leaves the problem of the original PNG:		The problem is that in my gusto, I forgot to export it as JPEG. Not wanting to waste our bandwidth, I exported it as JPEG and uploaded the much smaller JPEG to the wiki. This just leaves the problem of the original PNG:

	¿Could you please delete ~~[[file:u-87.png \| thumb]]~~ ?		¿Could you please delete?

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	[[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] 09:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)		[[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] 09:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

			:I saw this on the recent changes and took care of it. Will let [[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] know on his talk page, and suggest he post on the [[BW:CN\|Chief's noticeboard]] for fastest resolution. Also, hi from another Brown Coat. [[User:JubalHarshaw\|JubalHarshaw]] 18:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Walabio: /* I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete. */ new section

2009-04-25T09:58:44Z

I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete.: new section

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	*Nevermind.... they show up only when i log out.		*Nevermind.... they show up only when i log out.

			== I accidently added a file which someone should probably delete. ==

			I watched the movie Caprica and saw in a scene the [[U-87]] in just the right pose for a screengrab. I made a screengrab as is allowed under fair use, uploaded it to the wiki and licensed it [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Version # 3.0. ]

			The problem is that in my gusto, I forgot to export it as JPEG. Not wanting to waste our bandwidth, I exported it as JPEG and uploaded the much smaller JPEG to the wiki. This just leaves the problem of the original PNG:

			¿Could you please delete [[file:u-87.png \| thumb]] ?

			Post Scriptum:

			When looking for a Chief to delete the file, I noticed that your name is Serenity. I too am a Brown Coat. Since I had no better reason to choose a Chief for asking, I ask you for that reason.

			[[User:Walabio\|Walabio]] 09:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

R9tgokunks: /* Errors */

2009-04-19T16:14:57Z

Errors

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	The footnotes you added to [[Unnamed Cities of Caprica]] don't seem to be showing up.		The footnotes you added to [[Unnamed Cities of Caprica]] don't seem to be showing up.


			*Nevermind.... they show up only when i log out.

R9tgokunks: /* Errors */

2009-04-19T16:13:05Z

Errors

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	== Errors ==		== Errors ==

	The footnotes you added to [[Unnamed Cities Of Caprica]] don't seem to be showing up.		The footnotes you added to [[Unnamed Cities of Caprica]] don't seem to be showing up.

R9tgokunks: /* Errors */ new section

2009-04-19T16:12:42Z

Errors: new section

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	:It's fine now that the pages are consistent with each other. They just shouldn't contain something different as before. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 14:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)		:It's fine now that the pages are consistent with each other. They just shouldn't contain something different as before. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 14:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

			== Errors ==

			The footnotes you added to [[Unnamed Cities Of Caprica]] don't seem to be showing up.

Serenity: /* Rank Listing for Sergeant Hadrian */

2008-09-14T14:29:21Z

Rank Listing for Sergeant Hadrian

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	I have changed back the listing of rank on the Sergeant Hadrian page to Sergeant First Class. You made a valid point when you changed it back but I thought it should be consistent with what is on the ranks page. If this a big problem for you, you can change it back. Also, I would have left this not on the history listing for the change the way you normally do but I still can't figure out how to do that.		I have changed back the listing of rank on the Sergeant Hadrian page to Sergeant First Class. You made a valid point when you changed it back but I thought it should be consistent with what is on the ranks page. If this a big problem for you, you can change it back. Also, I would have left this not on the history listing for the change the way you normally do but I still can't figure out how to do that.
			[[User:Grandmaester314\|Grandmaester314]] 17:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

	[[User:~~Grandmaester314~~\|~~Grandmaester314~~]] 17:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)		:It's fine now that the pages are consistent with each other. They just shouldn't contain something different as before. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 14:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Grandmaester314: /* Rank Listing for Sergeant Hadrian */ new section

2008-09-13T17:53:34Z

Rank Listing for Sergeant Hadrian: new section

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	:*I'm usually also a bit hesitant to fully include all behind the scenes information, as it's sometimes contradicted by on-screen content (whereas Joe for example is more of an "inclusionist"). But this seems to be pretty consistent from what I've seen so far. Except that everyone wearing a beige BDUs is supposed to be a warrant officer as Joe noted on the article's talk page. For example Sergeant Hadrian and a couple of pretty young crewmen also wear them and they aren't WOs. We'll see how that all turns out, but in any case, it's more logical to assume that Fisk was indeed intended to be a lieutenant colonel and promoted later, than to invent things to explain it away. That's kinda fanwanky, even if the arguments make sense. Dualla's insignia can just be chalked up as a costuming error then. Yeah, the insignia doesn't fit 100%ly, but if that's what they intended (and maybe supported by other sources), we'll have to go by it. There are similar oddities in real-life, for example with silver outranking gold in the US armed forces (e.g. gold oak leaf = major, silver = lieutenant colonel). It's just a TV show after all, and even the best ones make errors here and there.		:*I'm usually also a bit hesitant to fully include all behind the scenes information, as it's sometimes contradicted by on-screen content (whereas Joe for example is more of an "inclusionist"). But this seems to be pretty consistent from what I've seen so far. Except that everyone wearing a beige BDUs is supposed to be a warrant officer as Joe noted on the article's talk page. For example Sergeant Hadrian and a couple of pretty young crewmen also wear them and they aren't WOs. We'll see how that all turns out, but in any case, it's more logical to assume that Fisk was indeed intended to be a lieutenant colonel and promoted later, than to invent things to explain it away. That's kinda fanwanky, even if the arguments make sense. Dualla's insignia can just be chalked up as a costuming error then. Yeah, the insignia doesn't fit 100%ly, but if that's what they intended (and maybe supported by other sources), we'll have to go by it. There are similar oddities in real-life, for example with silver outranking gold in the US armed forces (e.g. gold oak leaf = major, silver = lieutenant colonel). It's just a TV show after all, and even the best ones make errors here and there.
	:*Regarding Burrell. There is actually a second [[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant\|unnamed Marine lieutenant]] in Season 4. I agree that including him in the list is a bit fishy since he doesn't necessarily line up with a Fleet lieutenant. Maybe the two can be moved up into the text, where Marine officers are briefly mentioned. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 20:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)		:*Regarding Burrell. There is actually a second [[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant\|unnamed Marine lieutenant]] in Season 4. I agree that including him in the list is a bit fishy since he doesn't necessarily line up with a Fleet lieutenant. Maybe the two can be moved up into the text, where Marine officers are briefly mentioned. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 20:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

			== Rank Listing for Sergeant Hadrian ==

			I have changed back the listing of rank on the Sergeant Hadrian page to Sergeant First Class. You made a valid point when you changed it back but I thought it should be consistent with what is on the ranks page. If this a big problem for you, you can change it back. Also, I would have left this not on the history listing for the change the way you normally do but I still can't figure out how to do that.

			[[User:Grandmaester314\|Grandmaester314]] 17:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Serenity: /* Military Ranks */

2008-08-29T20:40:44Z

Military Ranks

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	Again I apologize for the length of the message but I thought it might inspire some constructive discussion.		Again I apologize for the length of the message but I thought it might inspire some constructive discussion.
	[[User:Grandmaester314\|Grandmaester314]] 18:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)		[[User:Grandmaester314\|Grandmaester314]] 18:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

			:*As for the commander/captain/admiral things. I see your points and I've heard them before. There are valid arguments for both points of view. So in the end, the best is to just drop it. There have been long arguments about this before that didn't really go anywhere, and in the end the rank structure is very similar but not identical to real-world examples, especially considering the ''roles'' of people. The article isn't really any better with the comparison, so good riddance :)
			:*I'm usually also a bit hesitant to fully include all behind the scenes information, as it's sometimes contradicted by on-screen content (whereas Joe for example is more of an "inclusionist"). But this seems to be pretty consistent from what I've seen so far. Except that everyone wearing a beige BDUs is supposed to be a warrant officer as Joe noted on the article's talk page. For example Sergeant Hadrian and a couple of pretty young crewmen also wear them and they aren't WOs. We'll see how that all turns out, but in any case, it's more logical to assume that Fisk was indeed intended to be a lieutenant colonel and promoted later, than to invent things to explain it away. That's kinda fanwanky, even if the arguments make sense. Dualla's insignia can just be chalked up as a costuming error then. Yeah, the insignia doesn't fit 100%ly, but if that's what they intended (and maybe supported by other sources), we'll have to go by it. There are similar oddities in real-life, for example with silver outranking gold in the US armed forces (e.g. gold oak leaf = major, silver = lieutenant colonel). It's just a TV show after all, and even the best ones make errors here and there.
			:*Regarding Burrell. There is actually a second [[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant\|unnamed Marine lieutenant]] in Season 4. I agree that including him in the list is a bit fishy since he doesn't necessarily line up with a Fleet lieutenant. Maybe the two can be moved up into the text, where Marine officers are briefly mentioned. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 20:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Grandmaester314 at 18:17, 29 August 2008

2008-08-29T18:17:20Z

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	:*As for the speculative ranks. They've been there for maybe two years and nobody complained about it before. The footnotes make it clear that they haven't been established on screen, so they can easily be ignored if someone prefers that. I think there are more arguments to include them than there are against them (there is just no reason to not have them, when the rest of the NCO list follows the usual structure). In any case, this is probably a moot point with Joe having something of a complete list. In general, this is an article that lends itself to some deduction. Assuming that there is a rank missing or how some insignia might look can be well-grounded reasoning. That's a bit different from just wildly guessing about the purpose of a certain ship type for example.		:*As for the speculative ranks. They've been there for maybe two years and nobody complained about it before. The footnotes make it clear that they haven't been established on screen, so they can easily be ignored if someone prefers that. I think there are more arguments to include them than there are against them (there is just no reason to not have them, when the rest of the NCO list follows the usual structure). In any case, this is probably a moot point with Joe having something of a complete list. In general, this is an article that lends itself to some deduction. Assuming that there is a rank missing or how some insignia might look can be well-grounded reasoning. That's a bit different from just wildly guessing about the purpose of a certain ship type for example.
	:*I realize that this has been a sad edit war and I didn't like it, but we are both to blame. I pointed out the capitalization issue in the edit summary for example. We could also have discussed this on talk pages earlier instead of just reverting back and forth. I left a note on your talk page about something else and should have written another when this went out of hand, but I wasn't sure if you'd read it. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 15:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)		:*I realize that this has been a sad edit war and I didn't like it, but we are both to blame. I pointed out the capitalization issue in the edit summary for example. We could also have discussed this on talk pages earlier instead of just reverting back and forth. I left a note on your talk page about something else and should have written another when this went out of hand, but I wasn't sure if you'd read it. -- [[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 15:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


			First, thanks for the response. Second, I have several points I'd like to make, I apologize in advance if this gets rather lengthy.

			In response to the recent unpleasantness:
			*I did read your initial message but as I indicated to Joe, until yesterday, I couldn't figure out how to respond.
			*I realize I have a tendency to get overly wordy, its a function of my vocabulary and writing style which definitely has something of a flourish to it, however since I couldn't figure out how to consolidate my comments any further than I already had, I figured I'd post it and let someone else figure out how to consolidate them.
			*I agree with you and Joe that it is counterproductive to keep revising this page when he will shortly have a bunch of new, and more definitive information.
			*I know we got off on the wrong foot but I hope we can change that, you seem to be one of the people most interested in this topic, which to me is perhaps the most interesting one, and I think we could have some very productive discussions.

			I'd also like to make some BSG related comments for you to think about:
			*Assuming that Joe doesn't provide further clarification on the Lt. Colonel issue I think it's something that should still be discussed further before a final conclusion is made as to it's exact role. I have a very different opinion on it than you seem to. I think it may not be a rank at all.
			**Credits have been known to be mislisted before and their have been instances where ranks have been listed that either conflicted with their insignia (such as Agathon wearing a full lieutenant's chevrons but claiming to be a junior lieutenant), or were never established in the ranks structure (such as the multiple classes of specialist I've heard referred to).
			**Officers of different ranks have worn it.
			**The insignia doesn't follow any kind of trend like all the other ranks do which would place it in a specific rank catagory.
			***The enlisted ranks all have standard diamond shapes with silver borders and green inlay, junior officers all have the same general diamond shape and silver border that enlisted ranks do but have gold inlay, and the other senior officers all have a progression based on a foundation of the full colonel design which is a gold diamond with an extended tapered edge on the bottom and a raised red phoenix logo in the center.
			***This insignia has charactoristics from all these classes and others that are unique to it. It shares the same basic diamond shape and raised border as the enlisted and junior officer ranks. On the other hand it shares it's completely gold color and phoenix logo with the senior officer ranks. However, unlike the enlisted and junior officer ranks which have a raised silver border, it's raised border is the same gold as the rest of it, as is the raised diamond in the center (similar raised designs in the enlisted ranks are the same silver as the border in contrast to the green inlay). At the same time it also diverges from the senior officer ranks because its diamond shape doesn't share the same evolving design as the other senior officers and also unlike the other senior officers its phoenix is engraved and unpainted as opposed to raised and red colored.
			**For these reasons I think this device is designed to indicate someone granted a special role. In Dualla's case it might have been used to indicate her XO status which wouldn't be at all apparent from her actual rank since under normal circumstances, a lieutenant junior grade would never be XO of a battlestar. Now as to why Fisk wore it, I can only speculate, perhaps he wasn't supposed to be a permanent member of the crew but was only on board at the time of the attacks because he had some role in Pegasus' overhaul.
			*Unless Joe is able to definitively place him in the rank structure, I think Marine Lieutenant Burrell should be removed from the list of examples on the ranks chart since we can't definitively place his rank in the overall rank structure. Besides as Joe pointed out (and I hadn't really realized), the list isn't intended to be exhaustive. While I understand the desire to have him on the list since he is the only Marine officer we have seen, I think we shouldn't place him on the list until we now for sure where he goes.
			*Given a comment from Joe I know ascede to the fact that their may well be a Senior Chief Petty Officer Rank (in fact it would resolve a major issue for me namely, why use the rank of gunnery sergeant when you don't use master sergeant?), at least enough for me to feel ok including it in the list. However given the fact that Cally was promoted directly from Specialist to PO2 I believe it's safe to conclude two things: First, there is no P.O. Third Class. Second, given that the rank of Corporal has been established and would normally be equivalent to PO3, there is indeed no Lance Corporal rank and Corporal is just shifted down one and slotted in next to Specialist. I believe almost as strongly that their is no Vice Admiral rank for a number of reasons. In addition to the fact that it has never even been mentioned, the most notable reason is that if you take a look at the uniform fringe colors for Admiral and Rear Admiral, there doesn't seem to be room for an intermediate rank because the next logical progression from the Rear Admiral's gold over silver is the Fleet Admiral's solid gold.
			*Finally, I differ in my assessment of the place of Commander in the rank structure. I believe that Commanders are more closely akin to a one-star admiral than to a Captain in the U.S. Navy. They do fulfill aspects of both roles, but given that battlestars are often dispatched on their own, that Admiral's are only assigned when their are multiple military ships in a group as opposed to unarmed support vessels, and that in reality a carrier task force usually has more than one admiral (usually a two- or three-star in overall command, and at least one one- or two-star admiral in charge of all the screening ships. I believe that equating Commander with Captain does not accurately recognize the scope of a Commander's authorities and duties or his significantly higher standing in the overall command structure. Also I think it can be expected that there are other military vessels which aren't battlestars which may at times accompany a battlestar group and I think for such smaller vessels, it would likely be Colonel or even a Major in certain circumstances who be in direct command of the specific vessel (after all the navy assigns commanding officers of different ranks to command different types of ships based on their size and purpose.

			Any way I know I am probably babbling by now but I thought I'd give you some idea of some of the things I would like to discuss in the future.

			I am also going to send Joe a list of things that I think are most important to clear up. I think it might be helpful for him to have some guidelines see he can target his research. These include:
			*A definite equivalence table for Marine and Fleet enlisted ranks
			*The real nature of the so-called "Lt. Colonel" insignia
			*Whether the Marines have a different officer structure than the Fleet.
			*The exact number of officer and enlisted ranks
			*Whether there are any other officer ranks that haven't been introduced.

			Again I apologize for the length of the message but I thought it might inspire some constructive discussion.
			[[User:Grandmaester314\|Grandmaester314]] 18:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)