Battlestar Wiki:Descriptive term

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This is a proposed policy for Battlestar Wiki.
This non-policy is considered by the community and its leadership is to be considered for the status quo of Battlestar Wiki, though changes to it can be discussed on the appropriate talk page.

Battlestar Wiki uses descriptive terms to give names to technologies and other subjects which haven't been given a canonical name (that is, a name assigned officially through aired content from either the Re-imagined Series or Original Series).

Contributors are encouraged to use descriptive terms for important technologies, characters or events that have been sufficiently defined, but which are not ubiquitous or commonplace, such as "telephones." Contributors should create terms that match the function or the disposition or similar characteristic of the subject.

Articles that describe ordinary, mundane topics on Battlestar Wiki are subject to speedy deletion.

Once a subject, character or item has an official term, the descriptive terms are retired and used as redirects.

Partial list of articles with descriptive terms, past and present

  • Humano-Cylon
    • Former descriptive term for humanoid Cylons until the episode, "Epiphanies," where Cylon agent was defined.
  • Presidential security service
  • Kinetic energy weapons, or KEW
    • Descriptive term for the projectile weapons (guns and the like) used in the Re-imagined Series.
  • Colonial wireless alphabet
    • Descriptive term for Colonial pilot wireless communication process similar to the NATO alphabet.
  • Data disk
    • Used to describe the hexagonal version of the CD-like computer disks of the Re-imagined Series.
  • Caprica-Valerii, Caprica-Sharon, Caprica-Boomer
  • Virtual Six, Baltar-Six, Chip-Six, Head-Six
  • Galactica-Boomer, Galactica-Sharon
    • The descriptive names for the first Number Eight seen in the Miniseries, Sharon Valerii. Used to distinguish the character now known as Sharon Agathon from the "original" Sharon.
  • Tattooed pilot
    • The descriptive name for a recurring extra in the Re-imagined Series who has never been named.
  • Identification tags
    • The former descriptive term for Colonial ID tags. The logical and now canonical "Dog tags" is now used as of the episode, "Exodus, Part I."