Talk:Human/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

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Please explain to me what is wrong with this page and how to make any page useable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kittenmaia (talk • contribs).

It's both the content and style. Content-wise we already have articles like The Twelve Colonies (RDM), Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies, Language in the Twelve Colonies or Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM) which cover this in far greater detail. Those articles are popular and sometimes of very high quality, so that's where people go when they want to know something about humans in BSG (a similar series exists about the Cylons). In a more general sense there are also science and technological articles like Science in the Re-imagined Series which comes with a whole series of sub-articles about medicine, navigation, propulsion, weapons or computers. Or Themes in Battlestar Galactica (RDM) for a meta-view on themes in the series.

So, I'm afraid that there is not really much reason to even improve it, since the content already exists elsewhere. If you have something new to add to those articles, feel free to do so. I realize, that you put some effort into this, and I really feel a bit bad about coming down you for the second time now, but other people would say pretty much the same :s

Regarding the style, it mixes both out-of-universe references with in-universe ones, which we rarely do. Sometime it's unavoidable, but generally we write from an in-universe POV and put real-life references into footnotes or a separate notes section below the main article. Secondly, you should write from a neutral point of view. That means saying "The viewer see" or "Viewers see" instead of "We see". Also note that the humans in BSG are not us. So writing "In BSG we don't have..." doesn't work. Rather you'd say something like "The Colonials don't possess <something> like on real-world Earth".

That stuff is covered in policies like Battlestar Wiki:Neutral point of view or Battlestar Wiki:Real point of view. --Serenity 08:38, 6 August 2007 (CDT)

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 :So, I'm afraid that there is not really much reason to even improve it, since the content already exists elsewhere. If you have something new to add to those articles, feel free to do so. I realize, that you put some effort into this, and I really feel a bit bad about coming down you for the second time now, but other people would say pretty much the same :s
-:Regarding the style, it mixes both out-of-universe references with in-universe ones, which we rarely do. Sometime it's unavoidable, but generally we write from an in-universe POV and put real-life references into footnotes or a separate notes section below the main article. Secondly, you should write from a neutral point of view. That means saying "The viewer see" or "Viewers see" instead of "We see".
+:Regarding the style, it mixes both out-of-universe references with in-universe ones, which we rarely do. Sometime it's unavoidable, but generally we write from an in-universe POV and put real-life references into footnotes or a separate notes section below the main article. Secondly, you should write from a neutral point of view. That means saying "The viewer see" or "Viewers see" instead of "We see". Also note that the humans in BSG are not ''us''. So writing "In BSG we don't have..." doesn't work. Rather you'd say something like "The Colonials don't possess <something> like on real-world Earth".
-:That stuff is covered in policies like [[Battlestar Wiki:Neutral point of view]]. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:38, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
+:That stuff is covered in policies like [[Battlestar Wiki:Neutral point of view]] or [[Battlestar Wiki:Real point of view]]. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:38, 6 August 2007 (CDT)