User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.

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Help me Joe B Kenobi, you're my only hope :D

Joe,

Firstly i'd like to congratulate you on a top notch job on Battlestar wiki. It never dissapoints and it looks super slick. stupidly enough, i've left it until very recently to actually register, as opposed to just visiting all the time. I'd like to thank you for taking time to read this also and I hope I have not wasted your time by the end of the post.

Basically, I need you help. I am re-creating the BSG seal that sits nicely above the CiC door. I am making it out of wood and all the pieces you see on it are all individually shaped, sprayed, and then assembled. creating the pieces, eg. the caprican crest in the centre are not hard to make. the proplem is the colours used for the paint. I cannot get an accurate reading from a picture of the real thing and most other pictures have a light shining down on it and distorts the colour.

would you, or any of your colleagues know where I could find out the colour chart? it would be greatly appreciated. I am creating it for use in my own home. something to spruce the place up a bit.

Thanks again for taking time out and once again, I hope I did not waste your time as I realise this might a very unorthodox post.

Sincerely

Nick "Joker" Lawless Galway Ireland

Joker, I've replied to you on the Battlestar Forum, and it's certainly not a waste of my time. Basically, I can probably snag a color chart from the department crew when I'm in Vancouver for the research and cataloging we're doing for the Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction. I can't tell you when exactly I'll be able to get that information to you, but we do plan on interviewing people from the show for the Battlestar Props website, and we do have access to the crew up there. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Razor script

I sent you an e-mail before I saw you say that you preferred being contacted here.

It mentioned in the Helena Cain sources that you read the script for Razor. Where'd you read it? -- DrBat 21:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, I've already e-mailed you back. :D (I've readded your comments here, since people may have the same question you do... :-) )

However, for people who may have the same question on their minds... I am the research assistant for PropWorx's Battlestar Galactica auction, and as such I have access to the production materials (scripts, reference photos, art, etc.) for the show to aid in research. I can't make copies of the scripts available online, since the WGA and the production company would have my head, and will never give me permission to do so. Hence my "on this date, Joe read that this character comes from this place..." notes in the sources pages. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 23:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Protecting the Ranks Page

I read your comment and wanted to ask if you even looked at the reasoning behind my changes. I'm glad to know somebody is here who actually has reliable information because admittedly a lot of what I've got is based on speculation. However as I commented to Serenity, I think it unfair that he constantly reverses all my changes without even looking at them (this isn't the only page I've battled with him over) and I feel like you just did the same thing. If you are going to lock it ok but at least look at the two conflicting versions and decide which parts of each should go up in the interim, because they way it is now, it's simply not fair. I believe some of my changes warrant being up there now such as my removal of ranks for which their is no support at all (Vice Admiral and Senior Chief Petty Officer) and the addition of certain people to the rank lists. I have felt from the time I joined like I couldn't do anything, any changes I made were promptly undone and I felt like if I complained I'd get booted out entirely since he is an administrator, if you want a truely open community everybody has to feel like they can participate and to tell you the truth, I have not felt that way at all. I know you don't want me to take it personally, but if you were in my position, wouldn't you?

A couple things... I understand where you're coming from. I do see that Serenity contacted you earlier this month via your talk page, explaining his reasons why he reverted your changes when you joined. (You're fear of retribution for offering criticism or complaint is unwarranted, and something you projected upon yourself; simply put, you didn't know either way, but assumed the worst. We can't control that. Fact of the matter is that you didn't respond to him the first time.) That being said, I will ask you this: what would you have done if our roles were reversed?

As for the issue of reviewing your edits, I did review them. you did make massive changes that were incorrect both factually and aesthetically. There actually is a "senior chief petty officer" rank, for instance, and there is logic behind there being a "vice admiral" rank (or similar, it may be called "senior admiral"), since it's been established that there's a "rear admiral". Further, there was absolutely no need for the "Razor, Part I" and "Razor, Part II" designations you've assigned, since "Razor" is one whole episode. (It has two production numbers for budgetary reasons, since they had to rebuild the sets for "Pegasus" after they'd been struck after Season 3. The production team members I've talked to considers that outing an interesting experience.) Not to mention the capitalization issues that you've added back in—it is bad form to capitalize ranks or titles, unless you're referring to a specific person when doing so, like Commander Adama or Admiral Cain.

Further, as I noted on Serenity's talk page, I am fully cognizant of the fact that editing the contested article now would be a waste of time and resources for both parties concerned, simply because there is new information available to us that needs to be entered, information that I have access to. Once I get the opportunity to add that data from the reference materials I have, then I'll open it up again, and then both sides can make the determination on whether or not this issue was really worth all the hassle. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 05:49, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Military Ranks

Just a few concluding remarks I don't blame you for what you did, where I in your position I would have done the same thing. The reason I didn't respond to Serenity's first post was because until yesterday I had been unable to figure out how. As far as fear of retribution, I've never really been involved with a wiki before so I wasn't really sure what to expect and was kind of intimidated. I appreciate you're addressing my issues. Not only did it help me understand why things were happening the way they were, but it also made me feel like my input was welcome and that was all I was asking for. I am anxious to see any clarification you can offer in the weeks ahead because I find this a rather fascinating topic.

Thanks again for the clarification. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grandmaester314 (talk • contribs).

MKI Viper in S4E1

Joe, It took me several views before I noticed that there was one there. In S4E1: He That Believeth In Me, at about 4:30, look at the Viper behind Tyrol when he yells 'Get that showboat bird in the tubes!'. You can see that it's the older style by the square wing, instead of the more triangular ones on the newer versions. I only noticed it when my computer happened to freeze at that exact moment-I saw it, and thought 'Hey, that's the MKI from the miniseries!' That's the only other time I've ever seen it, I never shows up in the battle, it just looks like another cool little reference to the original series. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marauder Pilot (talk • contribs).

I don't see it. If you mean the one in the foreground, that's clearly a Mark II engine-wise. You can't even the see´forward edge of the wing because some deckhands are standing in front of it. The one in the background is a Mark II as well. And then he walks by a Mark VII on the right. -- Serenity 17:17, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Referencing the available production materials (script and photos), as well as footage from the screen, it's a Mark II. Not a Mark I. They don't have a standing Mark I Viper anyway, just Mark IIs and Mark VIIs. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 01:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I thought. Would have surprised me. It might theoretically be one of the planes in the CGI set extension, but that's somewhat unlikely as well. -- Serenity 16:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Question Regarding BSG Forum Administration

I'm just curious why we have to log into the media section separately, particularly seeing as we have the same login for the main forum and the media page. Please excuse my ignorance. Grandmaester314 13:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

From a technical standpoint, it is a different website, as are the German, Spanish, and other versions. Therefore, they require that you log into those, although your username and password are all synchronized so that they're all the same across the Wiki network. A bit annoying, but there's nothing we can really do about it, until the MediaWiki developers devise a better system. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Font search

Hi Joe. Do you know what type of Font is used here: http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/4/4a/Bscap243.jpg

--Enabran 16:40, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

It's a font in the OCR font series... I'll see if I can get some time later to find the specific font. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 17:05, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Great :-) Thank you. If you need, I have made an "straightened" version of the recon-pic... --Enabran 18:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I have the original files from the art department.... Which may be released into the public eventually. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 18:49, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Joe. Have you find out the right font? --Enabran 23:34, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

The font is called [=137952 OCR-A EF]. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 23:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much :-)

Rank graphics

Fixed the graphics for warrant officer and lieutenant colonel. *Now* they match the auction photos, eh?  :)-- Fredmdbud 01:59, 7 January 2009 (UTC)