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In addition, I had to rollback your recent edit of Galactica 1980. While it definitely spiffed up the joint, we can't take content wholesale from Wikipedia due to incompatible licenses (we use Creative Commons, they use GFDL). If you can re-enter the content in your own words, you're welcome to introduce similar material. Thanks. --Steelviper 12:25, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- But it is so obvious that the material that started the article is the same as in the Wikipedia article at the time. How was it possible to copy it over then and not now? -- Jcnventura 13:03, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- That's a good point. If it was copied straight from the wikipedia, then by all rights we should blank the whole thing. I think part of the resemblence comes from the fact that Mokwella wrote most of both our version and the wiki version. The resemblence is disturbing, though. I wouldn't mind seeing the whole thing rewritten if you've got some good sources. We don't get too many 1980 contributors around here. Also, if you have or know of any pics of "Col. Boomer", I'd love to get that off my "todo" list. --Steelviper 13:16, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- Actually, I was wrong. The two pages had completely different origins, but sort of 'unified' at some point. And they are now diverging. I will see what I can do to re-insert the changes. The most important one is the mention to the 'Cleopatra' episode that they were shooting at the time of cancellation. I would like to do an article on that, as well as the other 'unshot scripts' that are so abundant on the Internet. As to the pics of 'Col. Boomer'. I do have Galactica 1980 in VHS tapes (not that I am proud of that...). But I have no way to get them into my computer. I will try to pause the video on my TV (a LCD one) and hope that I can take a picture of it of 'decent' quality. -- Jcnventura 13:31, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- That's the only source that I'm aware of, outside of occasional airings on Scifi.com. I find Mokwella's site when I was searching for 1980 DVD's. Part of me is glad that they don't exist. The ideal way to capture VCR would be a video capture device, but at this point something is better than nothing. (I would have went ahead and created the Boomer (1980) article if I had anything to go on, but he's not really mentioned much in Mokwella's episode summaries.) Glad to have you aboard! --Steelviper 13:42, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- Actually, I was wrong. The two pages had completely different origins, but sort of 'unified' at some point. And they are now diverging. I will see what I can do to re-insert the changes. The most important one is the mention to the 'Cleopatra' episode that they were shooting at the time of cancellation. I would like to do an article on that, as well as the other 'unshot scripts' that are so abundant on the Internet. As to the pics of 'Col. Boomer'. I do have Galactica 1980 in VHS tapes (not that I am proud of that...). But I have no way to get them into my computer. I will try to pause the video on my TV (a LCD one) and hope that I can take a picture of it of 'decent' quality. -- Jcnventura 13:31, 16 March 2006 (CST)
- That's a good point. If it was copied straight from the wikipedia, then by all rights we should blank the whole thing. I think part of the resemblence comes from the fact that Mokwella wrote most of both our version and the wiki version. The resemblence is disturbing, though. I wouldn't mind seeing the whole thing rewritten if you've got some good sources. We don't get too many 1980 contributors around here. Also, if you have or know of any pics of "Col. Boomer", I'd love to get that off my "todo" list. --Steelviper 13:16, 16 March 2006 (CST)