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Battlestar Wiki is for prose articles about subjects considered encyclopedic (along with some topics that would typically be found in an almanac), as well as content that could be considered Lurker's Guide-like or words that you could find in a dictionary.
Any article that simply defines a word, or short phrase, as you would find in a typical dictionary, and that isn't considered a Battlestar unique word or phrase (such as Red Line, volton (TOS), or frak) and cannot be expanded into an encyclopedic entry, should be contributed to Wikipedia:Wikipedia's sister project, Wiktionary.
Original source text, such as from a public domain book that you want to post to make it more accessible, should be contributed to one of Wikipedia's other sister projects, Wikisource.
For a list of all related projects, see the Complete list of Wikimedia projects.
Say you have an uncommon word in an article that you write, that you think people might not understand -- and it is not Battlestar specific. So you're tempted to try and link to it on Battlestar Wiki, but there isn't enough to say about that word to make a real encyclopedia entry.
Link to its Wiktionary entry. (If Wiktionary doesn't have it yet, do everyone a favor and add it, even if it's just a brief definition. Other Wiktionarians will help flesh it out.)
Instead of the whole URL, you can use a wiki link similar to a regular Wikipedia link but with a special prefix. For example,
- [[wiktionary:house]]
will link to the Wiktionary definition of the word "house". In your article it will appear as:
you can hide the "wiktionary:" part by adding a "pipe" (vertical bar) character:
- [[wiktionary:house|]]
as explained on the previous page, so that the result is:
The other projects have similar shortcuts. For more examples, see How to link to Wikimedia projects.
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