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.

Featured Episode Who's your daddy? "The Man with Nine Lives" is the current featured episode. Contributors are encouraged to watch the featured episode and update its episode summary and help work on the episode's to do list. Episode Summary - To Do List 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. Articles/terms that need to be created: 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) (add to terminology?) Beta company - group sent out to find solium leaks Gold cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri List of Deleted Scenes (TOS) - should we go ahead and start this one up? Tucana singers - article creation plus picture Major relevent articles: Saga of a Star World Battle of Carillon Battle of Cimtar Fact checking/Expansion: Battlestar (TOS) - particularly confirming the battlestar names Centurion (TOS) - cite execution? Cylons (TOS) - most of the mythology is layed out in this ep Cylon Mine - fact checking, better cites? Defensive shields - more details, pictures? Hasari - mythology check, exclude or separate video game content? Ila - fact checking The Alliance - mythology check Thousand-Yahren War - fact checking, again a big mythology ep Has been rewritten. Please post thoughts on talk page. Tucan - update to point to Tucana singers (once it exists) Character expansion: Lucifer - initial appearance Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character 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 Pictures needed for... Blue Squadron Military Ranks (TOS) - could use some color