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== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==
Welcome to the Wiki, Telek. Tell us about yourself on [[User:Telek|your user page]].

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--[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 08:10, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

== Standards and Conventions ==

Please have a look at [[BW:SAC]]. At least the section about the episode pages at the very end.

#Although it seems somewhat contradictory, the Question section is not for answers. At least for own speculative answers. Those questions should only be answered with links to future episodes. When you do own analysis it belongs to Analysis. That's where I moved most of your additions to "[[The Captain's Hand]]"
#We use the present tense for nearly everything. And also usually the passive voice. So instead of "The viewers can see..." it is preferred to write "It can be seen that...". The latter is not really an error, but just a question of style though.