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 Content

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

Feel free to add to the list of any episode, or add an episode that hasn't been listed yet.

Saga of a Star World

A transcript of the episode can be found here.

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Saga of a Star World Battle of Carillon Battle of Cimtar	Answaw - picture plus snippet (woman in elevator right after Starbuck is busted by Athena and Cassie in the chancery) Blonde Taurus - seems pertinent enough for an article of her own... Gold cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri, the military's highest honor Languatron - I've got a screencap of this handy translator. List of Deleted Scenes (TOS) - should we go ahead and start this one up? Tucana singers - article creation plus picture Warrior choo-choo train - Ok, while not exactly a descriptive article title, we should probably note the trolly transporter that the pilots use to get to the launch bay.
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
Lucifer - initial appearance Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character	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? Ila - fact checking The Alliance - mythology check Tucan - update to point to Tucana singers (once it exists)

Verification

Articles that have been worked on, but need verification before crossing out as completed.

• Base ship - used by Starbuck to describe Galactica, also used interchangeably with Basestar (TOS) (add to terminology?)
• Caprica Presidium - should there be a separate Caprica Presidium article, or should it go under Presidium? (This is where Serina reports from initially).
• Hasari - mythology check, exclude or separate video game content?
  • Ran through the article and tried to better segregate the content. I think having one article, with the video game information, is more prudent than having a two articles.
• Thousand-Yahren War - fact checking, again a big mythology ep
  • Has been rewritten. Please post thoughts on talk page.

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I	Pressure suit - complete with pic
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
Imperious Leader - at the beginning Lucifer - first mission

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
• Life Sciences of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the medical and psychological aspects of the Colonies, in progress

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