User talk:Serenity

"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)

Immunity to virus

Sorry for posting it again, thought the change failed to save since you removed it so fast. Anyway I have to disagree with your reasons - Cottle says "couple hundred years ago", a couple is 2 so its 200 years ago and it is very relevent since its a major clue as the history of the cylons. Since they didn't have an immunity to the virus then it implies they are based on material that is at least 200 years old—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swozie (talk • contribs).

"a couple" means "a few". That can be anything from 2 to maybe 4 or 5. In any case, it's not an accurate date. If you had written something like "over 200 years BCH", then maybe. I still question its relevance. It's another speculative topic, especially with the shaky science of the episode. As it's written now, it's stands there without any point. One could add that piece of speculation/analysis, but that's not really fitting for a timeline. It could be added as analysis, or better question to the episode article though. Actually, it's already touched on about 3/4th of the way down. --Serenity 15:13, 4 January 2008 (CST)

A couple does not mean a few! A few means 3,4,5 or whatever, a couple means 2 thats all there is to it (as Cottle would say). It borders speculation that it is relevant to cylon history which is why I didn't say that - thats left up to the reader to interpret but since its a valid piece of information on Coloniel History then this is the most relevant place for it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swozie (talk • contribs).

The term is used ambigiously when referring to time. It might technically mean two, but when people say "A couple of days" they don't always mean two, or they might as well say it. The Oxford dictionary says "an indefinite small number" as a possible definition. Anyways, it's already mentioned on the episode page, and there is a Cylon History article too. --Serenity 15:47, 4 January 2008 (CST)

I can't believe there can be so much fuss over such a simple change. Cottle says "a couple hundred years ago", a couple means 2, its speculation that he meant approx 200 years based on your experience of how other people would use the term. I was just posting a hard fact effectively pasted direct from the show and you disagree with it! Do you want facts in this site or just your interpretation of facts? I fully agree that you shouldn't have speculation posted but I didn't speculate anything here and besides the site has an awful of preconceptions posted as facts that need to be made clearer, I would like to contribute in this way but it involves this much hassle then its a waste of my time.

Your recent change is better but you say "at least 200 years" and this could mean 200 to million years or more which obviously isnt what Cottle says - just change it to "couple hundred" years as Cottle says!!

Re-imagined Series definition: denotes any time preceding the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, e.g. 40 BCH (see: Timeline (RDM))