Battlestar Wiki:Original Series Article Development Project

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The Original Series Article Development Project is a long-winded title for a fairly large project to develop articles relating to the original Battlestar Galactica.

Reasoning

Currently, much of our attention is directed at providing information to the current Battlestar Galactica series. While the articles relating to that series are very well developed, the area of the original series remains lacking in comparison. This was noted by Spencerian on the Wiki's general talk page, which said, in part:

... BSG Wiki has one Achille's Heel; the comparative lack of information on the Original Series pages as opposed to the Re-imagined Series is almost shameful ...

Therefore the drive into creating content for the original series should be a concern. Obviously, this is a voluntary effort, but any fans of the original series who wish to contribute are welcome to focus their efforts in creating articles related to the original Battlestar Galactica. (It also gives us something to do while awaiting the October airing of Season 3.)

Toolbox

• Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions -- all of our formatting questions are answered or addressed here
• Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad -- our answer to what sources should be used in the creation of articles

To-Do List

Article Creation and Enhancement

Of course, please feel free to list pages that need to be worked on below.

• Episode Guides - Episode Guide Completion (move to "completion candidate" once article has been finished)
  • The Long Patrol - ?'s, Analysis, Notes, and Dialogue
  • The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II - ?'s, Analysis, and Dialogue
  • The Magnificent Warriors - Analysis, and Dialogue
  • War of the Gods, Part I - Analysis, and Dialogue
  • War of the Gods, Part II - ?'s, Analysis, Notes, and Dialogue
  • Murder on the Rising Star - Analysis, Notes, and Dialogue
  • Greetings from Earth - ?'s, Analysis, Notes, and Dialogue
  • Baltar's Escape - Analysis, Notes, and Dialogue
  • Experiment in Terra -?'s and Analysis, maybe expand summary a bit
• Characters
  • Lucifer - more bio stuff (living legend, etc)
• Stubs - non-cast stubs or expansion
  • Galactica (TOS)
  • Grid Rats
• Information articles
  • Uniforms (TOS) - Article is in its nascency. Information on Pegasus related items is already included from "The Living Legend" episodes. Needs to be much more developed in terms of anything outside that.
  • Deleted scenes (TOS) - There are many deleted or extended scenes for the series that are on the DVDs. We need to compile a list, since such a list doubtless rivals even its analog, Deleted scenes for the current series.
  • Continuity errors (TOS) - A definitive (and doubtless lengthy) list of errors that proliferate the original series needs to be worked on as well. This is a goldmine article, and would undoubtedly have a future as a Featured Article.

Images

Many of the pages relating to the original series require images, particularly episode guides.

The following list contains ALL articles in the TOS category that are not figures of speech, units of measure, resources, etc, that lack pictures.

Groups

• Blue Squadron - a pic?

Misc Items

• Military Ranks (TOS) - could use some color

Episode Guide "Completion Candidates"

These episode guides have information filled out for all sections. They need a final check to make sure spelling, links, etc, are as intended. Striking an episode out will indicate it is "complete".

• Saga of a Star World
• Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I
• The Lost Warrior
• The Young Lords
• Fire in Space
• The Hand of God (TOS)
• The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I
• The Living Legend, Part II
• The Living Legend, Part I
• Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II
• Take the Celestra
• Pegasus (TOS)
• Core command
• The Man with Nine Lives

Article Todo List by Episode

This section is going to be huge and unwieldy at first, but it will be used as a staging ground for organizing an episode by episode to-do list, so that as people watch the "featured episode of the period" (a forthcoming feature, hopefully with a better title) they can easily navigate to the articles that need to be updated (or created). This could theoretically be implemented by using categories, but some articles would gain upwards of 20 cats, which might get ugly.

Saga of a Star World

Roughly 160 articles link to Saga of a Star World. I'll pick out some that need obvious attention. Feel free to add to the list. A transcript of the episode can be found here.

• Saga of a Star World
• Battle of Carillon
• Battle of Cimtar
• Tucana singers - article creation plus picture
• Tucan - update to point to Tucana singers (once it exists)
• Cylons (TOS) - most of the mythology is layed out in this ep
• Cylon Mine - fact checking, better cites?
• Greenbean - note mentions him being in the script, is he in the ep?
• Defensive shields - more details, pictures?
• Battlestar (TOS) - particularly confirming the battlestar names
• Ila - fact checking
• Thousand-Yahren War - fact checking, again a big mythology ep
  • Has been rewritten. Please post thoughts on talk page.
• Lucifer - initial appearance
• Centon - terminonology check
  • Millicenton
• Centurion (TOS) - cite execution?
• Hasari - mythology check, exclude or separate video game content?
• The Alliance - mythology check
• Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character
• List of Deleted Scenes (TOS) - should we go ahead and start this one up?
• Lianus vector - Apollo says "Let's roll over and take a look at Lianus vector" to Zac before coming up on Cimtar. This may be where Cimtar is located. On the subtitles, this is spelled as "Lianus Vector" with the capital V.
• bureauticians - those lucky guys on the Rising Star
• Answaw - picture plus snippet (woman in elevator right after Starbuck is busted by Athena and Cassie in the chancery)
• Base ship - used by Starbuck to describe Galactica, also used interchangeably with Basestar (TOS)
• Beta company - group sent out to find solium leaks
• bio-pulse line - attempted excuse for Starbuck to miss the Straits of Madagon mission
• Nova of Madagon - "is not a nova at all... but a star field so bright our cockpits will be sealed to prevent blindness."
• Gold cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri
• Mineral ships - dispatched to harvest/process tylium

War of the Gods

• Iblis' crashed ship - Pic and significance.

Fire in Space

• Uniforms (TOS) - Need to add the fire clothing and space suits depicted in this ep.
• Galactica (TOS) - We can use some of the info in this episode to expand a bit on the layout.

General

We should probably do a series of articles similar to the RDM "Twelve Colonies" series that Peter started. Here's an idea:

• Fashions of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the clothing and other "bling bling", since it's pretty unique.
• Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Good place for triad, pyramid, and minor games we see in the series (in particular this would be a great place for those games we see in "Fire in Space")
• Technology of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tech and all that
• Government of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - government, Quorum of Twelve (TOS), and all that jazz
• Society of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - society, such as religion

Additionally...

• List of Warriors - analog to List of pilots
• Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel (TOS) - analog to Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel