User talk:Serenity

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? (Pooh the hat 03:59, 8 October 2007 (CDT))

Screenshots

I was wondering, what software do you use for taking screenshots? --OrionFour 13:50, 26 October 2007 (CDT)

VLC --Serenity 13:52, 26 October 2007 (CDT)

Thanks!--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* --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). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Helo87 (talk • contribs).

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. --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. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 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

"Link title" stuff

The "Link title" stuff has to do with the editing bar. I believe the user might have hit that accidentally when beginning to edit. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 13:43, 19 November 2007 (CST)

Yeah, probably. Though I can only see [] and [[]] there. But never mind. No big deal. :) --Serenity 13:48, 19 November 2007 (CST)