User talk:FulltimeDefendent

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We look forward to your contributions to the community! --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 00:21, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Regarding "Wheatlon"

Please note that your article, "Wheatlon", has been deleted per policy as it had no meaningful content. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:06, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Standards and Conventions

Could you please have a look at Standards and Conventions? For example the part about the formatting of titles. Episodes have quotation marks around them when cited within a sentence. But other works such as Star Trek are written in italics, and not with quotation marks. That might sound arbitrary, but it creates a consistent look. Moreover, ship names are also put in italics.

The content of your contributions is good, but the formatting needs to be polished a bit sometimes. This isn't meant as a huge criticism. Just a suggestion :) --Serenity 07:43, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Culture

Just to let you know that I removed the link to "culture" from the RDM colonies series because the page has not yet been created yet. When the page is created feel free to remove the commenting arrows to put it back in --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 07:57, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Tense

We generally use the present tense here. Kobol still exists, so the ruins are 2000 years old. The discovery of the Lion's Head Beacon or the Temple of Five are in the past, but since we use the present tense, those two objects are dated to their respective age. --Serenity 06:47, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

As a rule, all events that happen during or after the Cylon attack are written about in the present tense. Only if an event takes place before the events of the Miniseries is it chronicled in past tense. (Determining tense for Razor is gonna be fun.) --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 10:26, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

Question?

How does one create a new page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FulltimeDefendent (talk • contribs).

Type its title in the search bar. Then you will get a notice that it doesn't exist, but that you can create it. --Serenity 17:21, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

Another way is to create a link to the page you want to create on another page. It will show up as a red/broken link, but when you click on that link it will take you to an edit session that will create the new article. The advantage of that approach is that you already have a link to your new page is that you won't have an "orphan" page (a page with no links pointing to it), even from the beginning. --Steelviper 18:44, 29 June 2007 (CDT)