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We look forward to your contributions to the community! --Spencerian 21:41, 3 May 2007 (CDT)
Recent Deletion[edit]
I have delete the article you created because it does not cite anything too support there are 13 models. Also, the wiki does not allow speculation. Please check out the BW:CITE guidelines in-order to contribute in a meaningful way. Thank you. :) Shane (T - C - E) 23:38, 3 May 2007 (CDT)
- Mudflap, my apologies, but Shane (a fellow admin here) may have miscited the reasons why the Number Thirteen article was deleted, believing you were attempting to make a serious article. On review, I noted you were attempting to create a silly page, which are welcome on Battlestar Wiki provided that the article adheres to the policies on silly pages and if consensus determines that the page is sufficiently funny and relevant. Based on that policy, the article is too short to form its own humor within itself (referencing a Wikipedia article of a show that I and possibly others are not familiar with, and as such don't get the joke).
- Because of the non sequitur nature of silly pages, they have to be created to be funny immediately and effectively to have a place on this otherwise "serious" wiki. I guess a simple way to say it is that our silly pages are usually complex humor pages and aren't "one-liner" jokes as your contribution was. Also, the use of the term could be confusing if there is a "Number Thirteen" later in the new series. Don't let the rationale to delete this article sway you from other contributions on Battlestar Wiki! -- Spencerian 08:07, 4 May 2007 (CDT) (Talk - Contrib Skillz - Edit Skillz)
Undo of edit to Computers in the Re-imagined Series[edit]
Hi, Mudflap. Sorry to undo your edit, but the notion of silica pathways is more of a technology that probably forms a Cylon brain, not a computer itself. That information has its own article as well as located in the Physiology section of Humanoid Cylon, anyway. Also, adding a link and no text isn't too useful there. If there's something I was missing about your edit, do let me know--I don't like reverting articles and want to use whatever contributors that someone takes time to enter. --Spencerian 20:53, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
Undo of edit to Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)[edit]
I undid your edit to the note on Hera, Lord of Kobol. She is the older sister, not step-sister, to Zeus, per many sources (esp. reknowned mythology researcher Edith Hamilton). --Spencerian 23:34, 19 May 2007 (CDT)
Deletion of Article[edit]
Mudflap, per our citation policy, the article you created named "Imperious Leader (RDM)" has been deleted. There is no such character, either in aired episodes or in separate continuity works, in the Re-imagined Series continuity. The closest match to the Original Series version is the Basestar command in the Re-imagined Series. Please remember that Battlestar Wiki does not allow fan fiction or unsourced, speculative articles. If you have any questions about this deletion or any other policy or guideline, please feel free to leave a question on my talk page. --Spencerian 23:41, 19 May 2007 (CDT)