User talk:Steelviper

Welcome to the BSG Wiki, Steelviper! Be sure to fill in your User page sometime to introduce yourself! --Spencerian 17:26, 26 October 2005 (EDT)

User page created (albeit quite spartan). Thanks for the encouragement.--Steelviper 12:52, 27 October 2005 (EDT)

There's quite a lot of spamming going on. Could they all be the same person? Why would anyone do that?, it's not clever.--Noneofyourbusiness 18:20, 9 March 2006 (EST)

Likely the same person or small group of people. The IP Block List shows multiple attempts at accessing after the blocks. And (as you've probably noticed) it's all the same junk. I'm surprised they don't move on to less heavily patrolled waters. This place is pretty active, and their changed are undone fairly quickly (unless they're happy having the links in the history). I've dropped Joe a note, so hopefully it'll get dealt with). --Steelviper 17:07, 9 March 2006 (CST)

Perhaps the expiry date of the blocks should be moved from 'a week' to 'indefinitely.'--Noneofyourbusiness 15:05, 10 March 2006 (EST)

Generally we're pretty cautious about handing out indefinite blocks. However, I guess a 10+ strikes and you're out policy probably wouldn't be considered all that rash. I was tempted to do indefinite blocks on these guys earlier, but I was pretty annoyed at the time and didn't want to rush to judgement. However, since a voice of reason agrees (and I've had some time to cool off) then I'll set about with the block fest. It'll take a bit... --Steelviper 13:47, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Done. (Also... I'm archiving, so everything older than this thread is getting wiped. Don't be alarmed.) --Steelviper 14:09, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Rave Reviews!

Hey. Nice work. Probably we should rework that section, now, to simply be a note to leave the Unknown Delegate alone. However, it's 4:33am here and I don't feel like doing it just now. Anyway, welcome and glad to have you. --Day 05:33, 3 December 2005 (EST)

King of the TOS Pages!

Hey, Steel. I'm sure many of us are noticing you taking point in getting the TOS pages filled in and fortified. It's much appreciated. Someday, when I'm drunk, I'll buy my TOS DVDs and join in. (I'll need some crystal meth to go to get myself to watch Galactica 1980, but you gotta do what you gotta do.) --Spencerian 10:08, 14 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I agreed completely with your observation that our TOS deficiencies are pretty embarrassing. Actually, much of the progress stems from working the Special:Wantedpages as suggested by the "Original Series Article Development Project." That was the first I had heard of that page, and I love it! A lot of the bigger offenders were topics where there was plenty of information available, it was just spread out across the wiki. Hopefully it won't be too long before the front page of the "wanted" pages are all user pages. --Steelviper 10:29, 14 December 2005 (EST)

Screenshots

First off, although I am not personally a fan of TOS, I want to commend you for your contributions to those pages here. I think our site has benifited immensely during the relatively short time you've been active here.

Secondly, I note that there is a quite a dearth of good illustrative screen captures from TOS episodes. To that end, I would like to offer to donate a copy of the TOS DVD box set to you via Amazon.com or somesuch. Let me know if this would be useful. --Peter Farago 19:30, 22 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I appreciate the thought. "Santa Claus" already beat you to the punch, though. --Steelviper 08:05, 28 December 2005 (EST) (Updated)

Administrator Nomination

Seeing how you've just as obsessed with this place as many of us are, I've nominated you as an administator. --Spencerian 11:44, 27 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I'll get right on that. --Steelviper 12:13, 27 December 2005 (EST)

Congrats!

You are now an admin! If you have any questions, feel free to bring them to me or any of your fellow admins. So say we all. -- Joe Beaudoin 21:24, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Welcome to the clubhouse. --Peter Farago 21:37, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Since you're the new kid, you have to do the mopping. Congrats! --Spencerian 01:44, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Thanks guys! I'll try not to make too big of a mess. --Steelviper 09:01, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Yes. Congrats. Don't let my "neutral" vote imply that I'll point a gun at your head when you try to depose the President of the Colonies or anything. *wink* --Day 10:34, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Galactica 1980

Hi Steelviper. Send me an email at weller43@cox.net so I can confirm for you that the site you mentioned is mine. - Mark Weller Mokwella 23:24, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Since Joe, as host, is ultimately the liable party, it would probably be best to go directly to him. --Peter Farago 00:58, 4 January 2006 (EST)

I didn't mean to stir anything up when I linked to your site. I just stumbled across it, as there isn't that much that comes up on a Google search for "Galactica 1980 dvd". Hopefully after you've emailed Joe everything will be clear. Sorry for any inconvenience. --Steelviper 09:01, 4 January 2006 (EST)

FLeet

Thanks for spotting these typos. It's an unusually common one with me. I'm getting better about catching them, but some still slip through. --Day 15:01, 16 January 2006 (EST)

You're welcome! Fortunately the consistency is what got them on my radar (they ended up on the "Wanted Page", which I tend to patrol). Thanks for doing all those, by the way! I was getting tired of linking to "The Fleet#Original Series|the fleet". The Fleet (TOS) is much more concise. --Steelviper 15:15, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Oh, I didn't make The Fleet (TOS). Someone else split up The Fleet into the RDM and TOS name-spaces. I'm just currently purging Fleet since nearly all of those should be double-redirects. I'm not done, either, but I'm getting there. --Day 15:19, 16 January 2006 (EST)

I think Peter Farago and Spencerian were primarily responsible for making the change. I just saw you were doing a lot of Fleet redirect work.--Steelviper 15:22, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Heh. I forgot the links would be bad. Anyway... yes. --Day 19:09, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Gah! I was about to start finishing this thing off but I kept finding them already fixed. I hit the refresh and they were GONE! *GASP*! Thanks, man. I can cross that one off, then. --Day 17:17, 18 January 2006 (EST)

You're welcome. I saw it was almost done, and got in groove. Now I just need to figure out how to use scripts to do that (as Spencerian suggested on his talk page). Unfortunately a lot of times it takes a human eye to figure out which way a particular link needs to go (if I had just thrown a script at it I would have gotten the Eastern Alliance one wrong, unless it somehow could check the categories of the page). --Steelviper 17:20, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Yeah. I was thinking about that. I don't think a script could be smart enough unless you took forever to write it, and then you're not being any more time efficient. I think hand-fixing things is the only way to do it, really. Now, the next project will be to go find all the links that go to "Last, First"-style character pages and fix those... A nit-pickers work is never done.--Day 17:23, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Humano-Cylon Naming Question

SV, when you have an opportunity, provide your two cents to the debate to "retire" the Humano-Cylon term on its talk page. I'm generally against it as it's rather pervasive and works fine for here. Peter is for the change, but the logic surprises me. --Spencerian 11:54, 24 January 2006 (EST)

Que? Oh. Well, I put in my two cubits (though I'm not sure how much that's worth with the conversion rates, inflation, etc.). Lots of interesting issues at hand. Hopefully more people will weigh in (unlike on the translation stuff). --Steelviper 12:41, 24 January 2006 (EST)

Glad to be of service

It's going to take me a week or two of doing this, and my Spanish will come back...in the mean time, bear with me and don't hesitate to correct anything if you see something blatantly wrong.

Glad to be of service, I assume this is mostly your project, I applaud the effort, and I'm glad to help. --Leoben Conoy

I never really intended it to be my project... I just mostly tried to start forging the translating pattern in the hopes that other people might join in. I am extremely pleased that people have! (Especially having two languages going at once!) I still don't have the whole picture of how everything will go (does Water/es:Water ever turn into Agua?), but I'm sure we'll figure things out. Joe might have a better concept of how the whole operation will work. I'll try to read over the Spanish work, but I expect that even your "blatantly wrong" will make more sense in Spanish than what I was doing. Also, if you want to sign your comments with your name/timestamp (all the cool kids are doing it), just use four "~"'s like this ~~~~ (though we often prefix that with a couple of dashes, for style. --Steelviper 09:08, 2 February 2006 (EST)

Nuclear warhead

I just added how he got it because it was mentioned later down the article, when he gives it to Gina. --DrBat 08:57, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Right on! I left in the part where she gets him to request the nuclear warhead. I'm just not sure it has been detailed that he actually used the warhead as part of the detector. It seems like he just requested it to placate Six. The details of the working Cylon detector remain (I think intentionally) a little fuzzy. If they explicitly mention that he actually uses the warhead in the detector, then go ahead and add it back in. It just just seems that he was flexing his scientific muscle, though.--Steelviper 09:02, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Thanks for the Welcome

Hi, I don't know how much use I can be around the rest of the site (I'm not very tehnical-minded) but I love transcribing things (I must be mad) and so I'm happy to do as many of them as I can for you. Don't hesitiate to correct me if I mess something up too, like I said, I'm not brilliant with computers. Anyway thanks for saying hi. --Misco 15:40, 14 February 2006 (EST)

You're welcome! Usually that job falls to Spencerian. (In fact his initial greeting is still at the top of this page, as I don't get enough traffic to require archiving.) I jumped at the opportunity to welcome a new transcriber, though! I've tried doing it myself (though I managed to lose my work), but find that my OCD-like compulsion to get EVERY SINGLE sound (including the filler um's, ah's, sort of's) slows me WAY down. It amazes me when I get a chance to read transcriptions of people like yourself and Peter Farago that have excellent filters that clear out all that junk leaving only the good stuff. Feel free to contribute in whatever ways you are comfortable! As with any wiki, the more the merrier. --Steelviper 15:47, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Printed Media Copyrights

Did you catch who uploaded those Official Companion pictures? We need to make a note on their user page immediately. This is something we would get sued for, fast since this is a publication and not a broadcast. --Spencerian 14:06, 16 February 2006 (EST)

I believe it was User:Crashoveride. If you wouldn't mind making the note, you seem to have a better grasp at the applicable laws. When I spotted them, they felt a bit wrong, but I wasn't confident enought to outright delete them. --Steelviper 14:10, 16 February 2006 (EST)

Wanted List

Cool! (sorry about the late response) :) --Blacklight

Mas vale tarde que nunca. (Better late than never.) --Steelviper 15:04, 16 February 2006 (EST)

i'm really sorry...

... but i didnt know how to use a wiki. well, i use to visit wikipedia for contents, but as i not expert on any camp, i haven't edited a wiki ever. i didn't know who to contact o how to contact (no private msg's here?) well, i just wanted to help with the spanish translation. i'm natural spanish speaker (i'm from spain) i use to watch galactica in originally soundtracked (i dl them for inet two days after is aired, it is legal in spain) i'll be thankedif anyone helps me. just want to visit some galactica website on translate em to spanish. have a nice day. --Dancing salad

I left you a response on your user talk page. --Steelviper 15:23, 19 February 2006 (EST)

thanks, i'm glad u helped me - and so fastly! i'll be doing my best on it. dancing_salad 15:30, 19 February 2006 (EST)

RE: Colonial arm patches

Thank you for your recap, well deocumented, and by the looks of this topic, it's not the first time Merv has done something like this.

Could you advise me where best to show my article/images in the best way as all parties (including Merv before he jumps in again) can veiw them and admire them.

As you can tell, I've gone for a brisk walk to calm myself and picked up my 4yr old daughter from school. Yes, I made comments that were harsh, but if you made an article and someone "slaped it down", you'd be miffed too. Right now I'm trying to recover from sciatic nerve damage cause by over work, so I'm trying to keep myself occupied.

PS - Thank you for being a neutral party in this matter.(Damn your good for your age, I'm 27!) --Jetstorm316

You have, I think, perhaps walked into a potentially huge "opportunity" (read pile of work). I'm not sure if there is a simple place to stick all of your contributions yet, as I think the current structure might not yet be where it needs to be. Spencerian suggested the military ranks (RDM, and TOS). That might do for a start, but your article made me realize that we don't have a Uniforms (TOS) page describing (and displaying images related to) the Original Series uniforms. If a Uniforms (TOS) is warranted, then potentially the TOS patches and insignia could go in a patches and insignia section on that article, with RDM patches and insignia going in a new section of a (newly moved?) Uniforms (RDM). The existing Uniforms page is in desperate need of color (images) anyway, and having (verified) patches to display would be a potential way to start that process. That's just one guy's idea, though. I'd recommend asking this same question over at the article talk page or on the admin noticeboard to get the opinions of some others. I'm sure if we all put our heads together, we can come up with something. (Don't worry about your work "disappearing" suddenly. Spencerian wasn't ACTUALLY deleting yet, he was just trying to start THIS exact discussion. The article you created will not be deleted until we've figured out where everything should go and is everything is in place.) --Steelviper 11:17, 21 February 2006 (EST)

• Need I point out, once again, that I am not the one that "slapped this article down", but that Spencerian and SteelViper were both deleting it, and I simply deleted some links to it? I do not want to argue, but I hope you can agree SteelViper, that I should not appreciate baseless accusations. --The Merovingian 00:35, 22 February 2006 (EST)

O.K. Heres the deal, I do my work, you concentrate on your own. Let other admistrators deal with my work and nothing more shall be said. I, also am a creul man, but I have a better way of saying it. Maybe all it should have took it to show me direction with purpose, like Spencerian, because, as Agent Smith stated "Without perpose, we have nothing".--jetstorm316

I don't know how you're not getting this point, Jetsotrm: Merv didn't destroy anything you created. And, anyway, entropy is just kind of the way that Wikis work, so no malice should be held about someone editing after you. Once you put something up it is no longer yours. It becomes ours (which includes anyone who logs in to edit). --Day 05:02, 22 February 2006 (EST)

But as Author of a submission, I feel a sence of justice was needed. Besides I didn't blame him for deleting my work, I only raised question for not recognising all the patches I posted. A fan of both TOS and RMD would have recognised them and commended their usefulness to this site or recommended on where to post them correctly. I do admit I have to "compliment" the images with video stills on where they are shown, but that is a small matter to be delt with on my part.

My "Pegasus" patch image, however, is a manufacturer/creator error, not mine. As I have conceeded, that Pegasus is "BSG 62", not "63".--jetstorm316

images?

just trying to upload som nice images that i found to be neede on the Battlestar_Wiki:Requested_Images, from starbuck cutting cylon spacecraft's brain and getting in, for the Cylon Models article, refering to the spacecraft.i can upload them to my own host, but i think the images shown in the articles are miniatures from bigger ones uploaded here, isn't it? i have 9 pretty ones, but just want one of them to be thumbnailed (you know, the way the it's done on wikis), and the other ones being watchable.

oh men how ridicule i feel, just found the image uploading on the tools menu. thanks anyway dancing_salad 18:15, 21 February 2006 (EST)

Glad to be of assistance. ;) --Steelviper 18:37, 21 February 2006 (EST)

Amr patch 1

Could you please delete above image from this site, I will try to edit the image so it says "BSG 62" to correct a manufacturer error. I will show you first to get aproval of edit.--jetstorm316

By your command. --Steelviper 16:26, 22 February 2006 (EST)

Cheers, bro. I owe you one..--jetstorm316

Error Message

I got this error message when saving the miniseries page yesterday, what does it mean?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 37704 bytes) in /home/admin/domains/battlestarwiki.org/public_html/en/languages/LanguageUtf8.php on line 92 --Grafix

You've got me. I'll copy the question to Joe and see if he has any ideas. --Steelviper 09:05, 9 March 2006 (CST)

Fanfic

(I hope I'm doing this right.) I got your message about a fanfic article on my user page and thank you for the invitation to discuss it over here. Although I don't know when I'd be able to write something up, I would be interested in putting together a fanfic article, if you think there's enough interest here for such a beast. I'm so new to all this, though, that I probably will need help... (On the bright side, I did figure out how to do a header on this entry, all by myself. Hee.) Sabaceanbabe 15:56, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

You did just fine! I often append new conversations to the bottom of a page, but there are others that prefer to be at the top of the stack. I live out of the Recent Changes page and diffs, so I should be able to find it either way. Creating the article is as simple as "searching" for a topic that doesn't exist, and clicking the "create this article" link on the resulting page. In this case Fan fiction might be an appropriate article name, as a page with that name exists over at Memory-alpha. (I am nothing if not a pattern-follower.) I may go ahead and "click the red link" and get the page created, since I know that can be a scary process when you're not used to it. Whenever you're ready, feel free to start in on it. --Steelviper 16:05, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

A) Yeah to create new articles, i.e. "Frodo", you would type "Frodo" into the search bar, it would say that a page of that name doesn't exist, along with a red linke saying you may "creat this article", click on that, then "edit" the blank page (just as you click "edit" to post on any page, such as you did for this one) and type your info. We'll help you along with the particulars later.
B)I see nothing wrong with copying from MemoryAlpha, I've been bringing this up more lately, but I really base alot of BSGwiki stuff on MemoryAlpha. Entries for the battles series, and so forth. They've already established and worked the kinks out of a lot of this, so I usually try to "reverse-engineer" things to do for BattlestarWiki by examining Memory Alpha. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 17:17, 6 April 2006 (CDT)

Deleted images

I see you deleted quite a few images the other day (March 31), but you deletet quite a few that were being linked to. Heavy Raider and Basestar. While not directly embedded into the wiki they were used as links and should either be restored, or the links to the images removed.--Mercifull 06:29, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

Sigh. My bad. It is exceedingly difficult to determine that images being linked in that way are being used, since they don't register in the "what links here" and they end up in the "unused files" report (which is what I was cleaning up). I tried restoring the images, but it appeared to only restore the text. I guess for now I'll remove the dead links, but you might post to the talk page and see if people interested in those articles miss those images. I apologize for trampling over your images in my "cleaning rampage". I did not intend to delete the linked images. Perhaps a short term hack for getting them off of the "unused files" would be to post thumbnails to the talk page. --Steelviper 07:35, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

No problem, i re-uploaded the images and thumbed them in the talk page explaining why.--Mercifull 07:51, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

The best thing to do would to note what pages link to the images on the image's own description page. -- Joe Beaudoin 13:45, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

Would that keep them off of the Special:Unusedimages? I guess that's not a big deal (if they show up on there), but it is an easier list to work if it's kept small. --Steelviper 13:48, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

Unfortunately, no. If we wanted to keep them off Special:Unusedimages, then thumbing them on the talk page of the article that links to the images would do the trick. -- Joe Beaudoin 13:50, 3 April 2006 (CDT)

Spam Blizzard of '06

There's quite a lot of spamming going on. Could they all be the same person? Why would anyone do that?, it's not clever.--Noneofyourbusiness 18:20, 9 March 2006 (EST)

Likely the same person or small group of people. The IP Block List shows multiple attempts at accessing after the blocks. And (as you've probably noticed) it's all the same junk. I'm surprised they don't move on to less heavily patrolled waters. This place is pretty active, and their changed are undone fairly quickly (unless they're happy having the links in the history). I've dropped Joe a note, so hopefully it'll get dealt with). --Steelviper 17:07, 9 March 2006 (CST)

Perhaps the expiry date of the blocks should be moved from 'a week' to 'indefinitely.'--Noneofyourbusiness 15:05, 10 March 2006 (EST)

Generally we're pretty cautious about handing out indefinite blocks. However, I guess a 10+ strikes and you're out policy probably wouldn't be considered all that rash. I was tempted to do indefinite blocks on these guys earlier, but I was pretty annoyed at the time and didn't want to rush to judgement. However, since a voice of reason agrees (and I've had some time to cool off) then I'll set about with the block fest. It'll take a bit... --Steelviper 13:47, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Done. (Also... I'm archiving, so everything older than this thread is getting wiped. Don't be alarmed.) --Steelviper 14:09, 10 March 2006 (CST)

For future reference, it is O.K. by me if you block spammers indefinitely. Also, I am setting up a process where people have to authenticate their e-mail addresses prior to editing, so that should be up fairly soon. Just FYI. More at 11:05. :-) -- Zantor 14:52, 10 March 2006 (CST)

I assume that Zantor = Kosh = Joe Jr.? If so... cool. Understood. --Steelviper 14:54, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Haha! Sockpuppetry! Burn the heretic! Ehm... Zantor is just an account I was using to test the e-mail required process when creating an account. All I have to do now is enable the e-mail confirmation process, so that should thwart the person or persons entirely. -- Joe Beaudoin 15:03, 10 March 2006 (CST)

That's what I figured. I guess the checkuser showed too dynamic an ip range to range block? --Steelviper 15:05, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Actually, it didn't show me any IPs at all, which I found quite odd. I have to find out why. But in the meantime, this is a much better system. -- Joe Beaudoin 16:10, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Note to Self

When going on a blocking spree... don't start with yourself. It is interesting to note that the block in no way affects your ability to block, however. You just can't edit. Sometimes you have to learn things the hard way. --Steelviper 14:33, 10 March 2006 (CST)

• LOL--Zareck Rocks 15:03, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Japanese articles

Hey SV, as you already know I have been creating some articles in Japanese. When I was just starting I made a couple mistakes. Unfortunately I messed up the titles of the pages, so we have links to pages that really aren't needed and should be, if I may quote from Stewie, "Eliminated." Here are the links that I would appreciate being destroyed:

1)

2)

These links were created incorrectly. #1 has a space between the jp: and the title, I did not do that on any of the other episode guide titles. It can be redirected to this link if you can't eliminate the page: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分 一. #2 is incorrect because Part I does not jive with the ending of the title in Japanese: 部分 (ニ)=2. So the second link if it can't be destroyed can be redirected to: [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分 ニ].

Thanks a lot for your assistance!--Zareck Rocks 17:59, 10 March 2006 (CST)

By your command. (You may want to delete the dead links now that they've been "Eliminated.") --Steelviper 18:18, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Thanks a lot! --Zareck Rocks 18:20, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Sorry, I found another page I needed deleted: The Captain's Hand/jp: 艦長の針.

Not a problem. That's what we do. Looks like you're making a lot of ground. --Steelviper 22:12, 10 March 2006 (CST)

Podcast, Res. Ship, Part 1, Act 4

Great work with the podcast transcription, SV! Something so minor that I hate to even mention it, but for the multipart episodes I use Sci Fi's episode list as my guide for the titling of episodes (i.e. using Part 1 and 2 instead of Part I and II). So when I verified your podcast, I changed the "I's" and "II's" to "One's" or "Two's" and used the long hand version just to err on the side of caution with regards to the Standards and Conventions. If I'm in error, let me know. -- Laineylain 22:35, 16 March 2006 (CST)

Sounds fine! I'm used to working back in the dusty stacks of the TOS episode guides, where they still use Roman numerals (and some of them speak in latin, greek, or aramaic). I've got no problems with you bringing the notation into the 21st century. --Steelviper 07:03, 17 March 2006 (CST)

Table of Contents

Hi.. I'm new here, I hope this is right place to ask this question: I'm trying to translate episode guide to Turkish. But I'm not axactly capable of editing this wiki.. So the problem is, when I tried to edit "Table of Contents" section, I can't manage it .Why I can't edit TOC whic I created? I can't find any template around here, too? Can you help me?

The TOC is created when you do __TOC__, but it bases it's information off the headers. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 05:34, 21 March 2006 (CST)

OK.. I think I get it, I get it wrong at first I think. Thank you s much!

Vandals

That was a pretty good reaction time; from when he came to when he was banned, he lasted under 5 minutes. Hope that motivates him to move on to greener pastures. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 14:48, 17 April 2006 (CDT)

Thanks for the alert. In the future, drop me a message on my talk to fire off an email on the off-chance I'm not haunting the RC, or on the admin noticeboard for a more general alert. I liked their message about how "delicate" their vandalism was... --Steelviper 14:51, 17 April 2006 (CDT)

Yeah, that was a bit much. Thanks for catching that one so fast. --Peter Farago 21:25, 17 April 2006 (CDT)

I was a bit slow on that one, although I re-nuked him, just to be sure. No amount of hull plating will let him survive THAT one. One thing worries me. Those numbers of the user name are sequential. Someone may be using an automated bot to create accounts. Is there a human-readable-only thing that Joe could add to require humans to create accounts? --Spencerian 16:47, 17 April 2006 (CDT)

It's been suggested. --CalculatinAvatar 22:12, 17 April 2006 (CDT)

Help with Koenigrules

Steelviper, as you are another registered user of the official site, and I'm not always the most tactful, can you make an official announcement of our blacklisting of Koenigrules and HollyWoodNorthReport? If you are uneasy about posting it yourself, can you PM it to my account there.

Shaun, from Subject2Discussion, heard about my stance against Koenigrules on HangarDeck5, and e-mailed me back complaining that A) I wanted to "rip into" Koenigrules B)"recalling it was YOU, Merovingian, that Ron Moore was talking about in regards to massive spoilers." As a result, I will *NOT* be appearing on his show, he said.

I replied back to Shaun, telling him that B) That doesn't make sense: I've never spread massive spoilers: if he means the season 2 finale spoiler warning, that was against "TheDigitalAlchemist" a poster on the official messageboards who openly admits that he spread the spoilers---->I mean, he started a thread, using his normal user name, which was filled with spoiler screencaps from the finale. And he's proud of this and will admit it to anyone. If Shaun meant "recent spoiler complaints Ron has had".....all of the recent season THREE spoilers have originated with KoenigRules. So I honestly don't know why Shaun would think that.

As for "A" I told Shaun that yes, I want to in a professional manner "rip into" Koenigrules....because his behavior has been so appalling, and has abused our trust so much, that he deserves to be exposed. ---->I told Shaun that I hope he would reconsider, because we have all here already agreed on BSWiki to blacklist KoenigRules, and I really, really felt that the right thing to do is to go onto Shaun's show to explain to both him and his listeners why we felt we had to do it. ---->I also urged Shaun to read our eveidence against Koenigrules, posted on BattlestarWiki (I don't think he saw it yet).

I hope Shaun gives up the benefit of the doubt: I think we're really trying to help him, by pointing out this breach of trust to him, and by wanting to contact him personally via phone instead of just doing it.

Well, it could use your writing expertise SteelViper. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 00:30, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

We haven't blacklisted anybody yet. Please wait for the vote to conclude. For my part, I'd really prefer you try to avoid attacking anybody, regardless of how justified you may feel. The truth will come out on its own. --Peter Farago 02:53, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Indeed. But word gets out about this, we've got the vote displayed prominently, I think we should make up an announcement while we're waiting and I also think it wouldn't be best if I made it. I think someone else could do a better job than me. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 02:58, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

The vote is displayed quite prominently. We already have more turnout than for any other vote on the wiki, with four days before it closes. Further evangelism on anyone's part would strike me as axe-grinding. --Peter Farago 03:01, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Oh no I didn't mean evangelism for a vote, I mean to explain the results to people once its finished. I think an explanation I gave wouldn't be good, and I think someone else could summarize the points better, that's all. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 03:10, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

We could collaboratively develop an official statement. I think that might lead to a balanced viewpoint, and would be fitting with the overall theme of the wiki. (Not that we should take too long, or get bogged down in committees and such). --Steelviper 08:44, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Excellent thought. Sorry for misunderstanding you above, Merv. --Peter Farago 13:30, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

KR already found out about this, surprise surprise this is an open content site, and is furious on the official messageboards and just berating everyone who doubts him. Although I've mentioned he's in the process of being blacklisted, I have not official made a thread announcing "BattlestarWiki has blacklisted Koenigrules" and this is what I meant: someone else should do that, and someone else should write that, so it is as balanced as it can be. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 14:08, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Now this I must see... --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:14, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Ok. How about something like this:

"Consensus ({link to the vote}) at Battlestar Wiki (www.battlestarwiki.org) has determined that effective {END OF VOTING} KR ({link to KR}) and HNR ({link to HNR}) are not to be considered acceptable sources for the purposes of citing information. This policy is effective indefinitely, until such time that consensus determines that the afformentioned entities become reliable primary sources of information. The measure it taken for the purpose of protecting the credibility and accuracy of Battlestar Wiki.

So say we all."

Part of me is loathe to make an announcement of what is, essentially, an internal matter, but if we do say anything it should be concise and accurate (like we strive for everything else here to be). --Steelviper 17:58, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

On further thought, I agree - a formal statement seems a bit much. I think a note on the "unacceptable sources" section of the Citation Jihad and a link to the vote would be adequate.

As for HNR, since they actually cite their sources, including KR when they use him, I don't think that this ruling needs to extend to them. Since they don't claim to be a primary source, there should never be a reason to link to them anyway. --Peter Farago 18:12, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

Prism Card

Got one from my sister's old laptop. Also using my sister's old laptop with Backtrack (SLAX) right on the hard drive. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 22:00, 20 May 2006 (CDT)

Sweet. --Steelviper 07:29, 21 May 2006 (CDT)

Fanart

SV, you said you'd send me a preview of the fanart thing with me in it; I said I didn't get the preview you e-mailed me; that didn't mean I didn't want to check it out or be in it, I just wanted you to try to send it again; did you have a pic of me originally lined up for that ad thing you made, which you removed because I didn't respond, thus causing you to think I didn't want to? The thing you made now looks great, yeah I'd like to be in that :) (based on your "persimmons" comment on my talk page, I'm assuming you had an original with me in it) THanks. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 09:38, 26 May 2006 (CDT)

Periodically Updated Thought

I like your most recent one. The Maud'Dib one. Such good books. It made me think to mention that I like the fact that you have it up at all. --Day ^{(Talk - Admin)} 21:28, 5 June 2006 (CDT)

People read those!? Cool. Thanks.--Steelviper 07:36, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

Margaret Edmonson/Margaret Edmondson

While it is great that we have confirmation of the correct name now and I spend a little bit of time earlier changing all the references I feel that we should keep Margaret Edmonson as a redirect for people that search for that name on the wiki. --Mercifull 08:33, 9 June 2006 (CDT)

Good point. No harm keeping around a pointer to the new location. (Plus that's two fewer broken links on my talk page...) --Steelviper 08:36, 9 June 2006 (CDT)

Bribes

/me hands Steelviper 100 cubits. http://forum.tip.it/images/smiles/eusa_angel.gif --Mercifull 14:26, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

Sweet! But I am going to have to report this to the Ethics Comittee. You'll probably be banned.--Steelviper 14:28, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

Its all kosher guvnor 'onest --Mercifull 14:32, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

BANHAMMER!!! *wink* --Day ^{(Talk - Admin)} 14:40, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

On User Cylon500

I added a block explanation to the user's page already, but feel free to add any additional explanation or clarify/modify what I've added. He's a bit of a loose cannon, this one. --Spencerian 10:16, 21 June 2006 (CDT)

Thanks! Looks good. For whatever good it will do... (it appears that he doesn't read his talk page). You'd think he/she'd notice the "new messages" prompt that appears at the top. Perhaps not. Being blocked limits that user to only editing their talk page, so hopefully this gives them an opportunity to find it and respond. I'd like to see Cylon500 be a contributing member. --Steelviper 11:18, 21 June 2006 (CDT)

Oh Yes...Oh Yes

I just looked at those advertising images you made and was overwhelmed with a need to respond. WOW. Those are some GREAT advertisements, with the perfect blend of factuality and satire (making Spencerian Adama, thumbs up!). Alas, the wonders of Adobe Photoshop (or other program, if you don't use Photoshop) never cease. Of course, you'd probably need to update the group image with Mercifull's face, since he's a new admin, but other than that they're awesome. Where do you post that stuff anyway? I though Wikipedia was commercial free, or is this going out on the World Wide Web, or am I just completely mistaken as to where they go? --Homeworld616 14:35, 23 July 2006 (CDT)

Thanks for the feedback! World Wide Web was the idea, to be used by other Galactica sites or by contributors on their webpages or as signatures on message boards. It wasn't really a completed thought, and was partly just "proof of concept". I do post similar work over in my Galactica BS fan art thread. Photoshop 6 is the "weapon of choice". I've got GIMP installed on another machine, but I don't know it nearly as well as PS at this point. --Steelviper 06:58, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

Well, they were great nonetheless and it's good to know that you aren't injured. If you are confused by that "injured" comment, I said it because I noticed in the newspaper this morning that there was a gunman shooting people at a party in a Knights of Columbus building in Kansas City. I saw from your character box that that is where you live, and when I saw the ages of two of the dead victims I immediately thought, "Holy frak! I hope Steelviper wasn't one of them!" --Homeworld616 23:42, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

User Name

As a massive Battletech fan, I'm surprised it took me this long to comment on your user name. The clans are one of my favorite parts of the universe though. Of course, the Jade Falcons are the greatest of the clans, Quiaff? --Talos 15:09, 23 July 2006 (CDT)

Neg. (But then, you're asking a fan of the clan that got ran out of their invasion corridor in the Inner Sphere by the Falcons, so I'm more than a little biased.) --Steelviper 07:01, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

True, true, better than Wolverine, Wolf, or Smoke(d) Jaguar though. --Talos 10:55, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

It took me a second to remember that first one is the "Not named clan". Which Wolf? (Got all fractured, etc.) And the poor Jaguars ended up paying the price for Wolcott (though I hear it was actually the insolence of an individual on a usenet group pissing off the FASA writers that was actually their undoing). And I DO have to give the Falcons credit for kicking the Vipers out of their "wedge". I think I always resented a little the support they got from all the Aiden Pryde readers. Clan Steel Viper was always sort of a "Ravenclaw" or a "Hufflepuff" to the Falcon's "Gryffendor" or "Slytherin" (to put it in terms of Harry Potter).--Steelviper 11:08, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

When I said Wolves, I meant both the Wolves and the WIE. Kell is cool, except in Operation Audacity when he helps fight the Falcons. I'm a big fan of Pryde, he has a great story (The Jade Phoenix Saga is a great book). Yeah, the Vipers are cool, better than those crazy, shaman (and traitorous) Nova Cats and the bloody Fire Mandrills. --Talos 17:02, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

Galactica 1980 (RDM)

Sweet - I love the pics you added to the G80 silly page! Mokwella 12:59, 26 July 2006 (CDT)

Wiki Comparison 2

I'm working on the updated wiki comparison article; I'll likely make it a special page of some kind. I couldn't remember where we discussed redoing it, thus the note here. I hope to have it done before the weekend, but I have to dive around all the wikis a lot. --Spencerian 10:36, 2 August 2006 (CDT)

Thanks for the update. The discussion was previous located at User talk:Spencerian#State of the Wiki. Also, thanks for the TOS retouching. It doesn't get nearly as many pageviews, but it deserves to be just as standardized and conventionalated(ized) as everything else. --Steelviper 10:38, 2 August 2006 (CDT)

Mac

I am in the mall in the Apple store, and the site looks really good on a Mac laptop. :-D Ok gtg. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:58, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

I certainly hope so. I use one exclusively, and Joe uses one as well. We'd be one of the first to scream when the wiki looks like ass. :) --Spencerian 20:55, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

Huzzah ^_^ --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:10, 8 August 2006 (CDT)

hah. I remember that video from RIT. That video was played on the big screen. The entire campus busted out laughing. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 10:17, 8 August 2006 (CDT)

I use a Mac exclusively as well with Firefox. In fact, using Macs is my job; I'm a system engineer for a local IT company. --Spencerian 16:52, 16 September 2006 (CDT)

Don't be a dick

Thanks for starting this idea, it lead me to more ideas. Thanks! --FrankieG 22:27, 15 September 2006 (CDT)

Please check the rewrite of the think tank proposals into one, and revert/changed if I stepped overboard. Thanks. --FrankieG 06:17, 16 September 2006 (CDT)

Welcome back

Ready for the season 3 onslaught? We're getting at least 20-30 new contributors every week now! Hope your tan hasn't affected your typing skills.

We might actually need to consider getting a new administrator; we don't see Day or Peter as often, and we're a bit behind in pre-season mopping, much less being prepared for the new season stuff. Thoughts? --Spencerian 12:00, 25 September 2006 (CDT)

I think my record would demonstrate that I'm rather liberal when it comes to mop-granting. While there may be higher expectations as to how you comport yourself as an admin (since outsiders might attribute more to the "admin" title than there really is), ultimately it's mostly just a "delete" button and a "block" button (and their resective inverses). So I wouldn't be opposed to the idea, should the RFA's come up. We haven't had an "abusive" admin yet, and I've got faith that the RFA process would help keep out most troublemakers.

Possible candidates might include Shane (though that one may be controversial), Gougef (quotemaster), and Talos (one of our imagemasters).

What particular mopping are you targeting? I'm taking a look at the CFSD and CFD articles today. --Steelviper 12:14, 25 September 2006 (CDT)

Oh, the usual. I'm anal when I'm here. On almost every article I find something to mop. :) Yeah, your suggestions aren't bad. I just find it comforting to have an admin online almost all the time. Sorry if I struck the wrong tone. --Spencerian 20:01, 25 September 2006 (CDT)

Well, I do usually end up online most of the workday (Central time), so I guess that'd be comforting. I wasn't inferring a bad tone, just wanted to help pitch in if there was a particular list you were working. Sounds like you're more on "Category:A to Z", which is a nice goal (but difficult to focus on). I guess there's the TODO list and the Goals on the community portal, but it doesn't seem like there's much activity around those. Maybe we should try to change that.

If you like all my mop-boy suggestions well enough to second an RFA, I'd setup the RFA's. Or you could email me your favorites if you're shy about leaving folks out (though it'll be pretty apparent once the RFA's do or don't get created). --Steelviper 20:51, 25 September 2006 (CDT)

OK. Let's get into the season a couple of weeks and see how things go. I'll set up an RFA perhaps by that time, but don't wait for me if you see a greater need. I should do one myself; it looks like "fun." --Spencerian 08:03, 26 September 2006 (CDT)

Mary on TODAY

From MrsRon:

Battlestar Galactica's

Mary McDonnell

on "The Today Show"

Monday, October 2 @ 8:30 AM on NBC (ET/PT) 

Set recorder! --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 18:39, 30 September 2006 (CDT)

Original Thought

What no "original" thought? :) Seriously, where is the second thought (second law) from? --FrankieG 11:39, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

The second thought was my own (though the odd diction does make it sound a bit... antiquated). And I was referring, of course, to the second law of thermodynamics (and not the second law of robotics, or motion or whatever). --Steelviper 11:42, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

It just sounded really familiar. Yes, the universe is entropy ;). --FrankieG 11:56, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

Sorry for the spoiler

Didn't mean to be a dick, there with my speculation based on official spoilers. In the future I'll put my comments in spoiler texts to minimize problems. I was sure we could speak about anything on talk, but it can still rankle people who want to be genuinely surprised. --Spencerian 11:44, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

Not a problem at all! I was just worried that it was saying "so and so definitely dies at such and such point". When in fact, it said nothing of the sort. No harm, no foul, play on! --Steelviper 11:47, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

My RFA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 7/0/0. I can't express how much it means to me to become an administrator. I'll work even more and harder to become useful for the community. If you need a helping hand, don't hesitate to contact me. Shane (T - C - E) 20:36, 8 October 2006 (CDT)

Podcast Transcripts

Thanksyou for starting to write up the transcripts for the poscasts. I think that SciFi have blocked people outside of the US from downloading them (im getting 404 errors) so reading these will be very useful for me.

p.s I think it might be worth archiving your Talk page --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:12, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

Actually, the everybody (todo el mundo) is getting the 404 errors from Scifi.com at present. I hit the sciffy boards and apparently they're working on it. Somebody posted a link to a weird format, and somebody later posted a link to the mp3. I'll find that thread, and link to it. Hopefully they get that fixed before too long.

Nag, nag, nag. You're right, of course. I'll archive here in a sec. --Steelviper 11:15, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

Archived. Fetching that link now. --Steelviper 11:19, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

The link. (referenced above). I'm using the galacticastation mp3 (since I new that Express Scribe could handle mp3, but wasn't sure about m4a). --Steelviper 11:22, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

Thankyou ^_^ --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:28, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

You're welcome. Thanks for the archive reminder. I don't usually get enough traffic 'round here to justify archiving very often (which is evident given that's only my second archive). --Steelviper 11:30, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

FWIW, I think the problem w/ lack of beeps in the podcasts is that the m4a's have (silent) chapter markers. In iTunes there's a command to skip ahead or back a chapter (command-shift-right or left arrow on a Mac), and I understand the same is true on an iPod. Scifi is breaking each act into a chapter.--PrePressChris 13:09, 25 October 2006 (CDT)

Aha! Thanks! That makes sense. As a non-iPod/iTunes user I was baffled. Even finding a player for it was a bit of a challenge (fortunately VLC was up to the challenge). My biggest problem with m4a is that it's not compatible (at least out of the box) with Express Scribe. Fortunately an mp3 version was floated that covered most of the episode. As long as Scifi keeps putting out the mp3 versions complete with the beeps I'll be a happy camper. (I really didn't need the audio files broken down by act like they were, but it was handy for transcribing in small bites, and knowing ahead of time how long a given act would be.) --Steelviper 13:14, 25 October 2006 (CDT)

Go ahead with KBLGII. I have been ill for several weeks and transcription is one of the last things that I would feel like doing ;). --FrankieG 18:02, 3 November 2006 (EST)

It looks like you are on a roll. Since I'm still not 100%, go ahead with KBLGII. --FrankieG 10:59, 17 November 2006 (CST)

Did you see RDM's blog entry? Aside from last week's and this week's podcasts, there's this coming up: The "Roundtable Discussion" as we're calling it, is a freewheeling discussion, and there are definitely times when there's too much cross-talk and too much laughter on the recording to discern anything coherent (especially in the beginning) but tucked in amid the revelry are some interesting and fascinating tidbits which I hope you'll enjoy. --PrePressChris 17:39, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Yeah. I wasn't that excited about the thought of transcribing that when I saw Mrs. Ron talking about posting it in the first place. It's already up as three parts of "Writer's Meeting" (in three parts). Since it's of the "writer's room" class of podcast, I figured it would go under the same heading as the writer's room podcast (which is to say, likely to be procrastinated on for a while since I'm rather frightened of the thought of all the cross-talk and MANY speakers). --Steelviper 20:36, 1 December 2006 (CST)

I think that's one to leave off 'til we're caught up with this season, at least. --PrePressChris 23:05, 1 December 2006 (CST)

How have you remained sane while doing all this podcasts? I barely got one teaser out of myself. --FrankieG 11:01, 8 December 2006 (CST)

I can't get certified insane if I avoid being diagnosed, right? Mostly I just try to break it up into managable chunks (3 minutes is a typical pull), and try to do a little bit every day. It really helps me (psychologically) when I know other people are working on it too, though. Having you, and Prepress, and Peter, and Shane (and everybody else) working on it makes it feel a lot more like a team effort. I'd love to find somebody to get a head start on the podcasts as they're released on Friday (I wait till I see an episode before starting on a podcast, and that's usually later in the weekend). I definitely feel faster when I'm completing one rather than starting from scratch. I just hope people are reading them. If we're just needing them for a line or two to cite in the episode articles, I could just transcribe those relevent excerpts in a lot less time than it takes to do a whole podcast. --Steelviper 11:14, 8 December 2006 (CST)

I'm using them, anyway. I was just able to quote that bit about having Dirk Benedict playing God thanks to them. (and Gouge, he's not crazy. He just has incredible, almost machine-like, endurance...) --PrePressChris 16:12, 8 December 2006 (CST)

I noticed the Rapture podcast was not getting done, that's why I did it. I'm trying to get it done as fast as I can. I don't think I can have the latest podcast transcribed before the next episode airs, so I recommend that if and when you have time, you start transcribing TaB so we won't interfere with each other. --Catrope 13:16, 30 January 2007 (CST)

BTW, if you're going to verify my transcriptions, would you please try to fill in the "(unintelligible)"s? I felt like I had quite a lot of them, especially in Act 2. --Catrope 13:47, 31 January 2007 (CST)

As a "transcriber", I'll try to prioritize my time towards transcribing the untranscribed first (working on "Taking a Break"), then fall back to verifying once we're caught up (or if I happen to be burned out on transcribing). You might drop a note to PrePressChris as well, as he's been our ace verifier of late and he is extremely adept at converting all of my "unintelligible"'s into english. Don't feel the least bit bad about them, as they happen and that's really what verifiers are there for. Don't let those sections slow you down from getting the "meat" transcribed. We can always go back and clean up that stuff later. I find that if it's really important they will usually repeat themselves or otherwise repeat it in an intelligible manner. --Steelviper 14:00, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Steelviper / Steel viper

Mmm :-/ User talk:Steel viper --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:22, 11 December 2006 (CST)

I noticed that when the user first signed up. I was alert for "impersonating an admin" type actions, but didn't really see anything along those lines. I don't imagine it will be much of a problem unless that user becomes more active. Your suggestion was appropriate as switching names is probably as much in their best interest as it is the wiki's. --Steelviper 09:31, 11 December 2006 (CST)

Block of 81.177.14.26

On another wiki I visit has a massive spam attack by this ip advertising comerical spam from wikipost.info. I searched for the url of the spam it was advertising and saw that it was crawling several other wikis posting large amounts of spam (2mb of text on each page). I felt that this preemptive block was neccesary on this occation. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:27, 10 January 2007 (CST)

In that case, it's fine. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 15:17, 10 January 2007 (CST)

Congratulations

^_^ --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:39, 19 January 2007 (CST)

Thanks. It is a nice rifle, isn't it? Oh. The baby? Yeah, well that'll be a whole new adventure. --Steelviper 11:47, 19 January 2007 (CST)

Congratulations! When can you get him or her on to do some editing? :) --Spencerian 12:05, 19 January 2007 (CST)

Possible record for youngest Battlestar Wiki member --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 12:13, 19 January 2007 (CST)

It'll be a race, no doubt. We're still at least a couple years from acceptable edits. Plus the mature nature of the content makes TOS and 1980 far more likely candidates for viewing of the editor-to-be than RDM, presently. --Steelviper 12:20, 19 January 2007 (CST)

The question is: Will you bring up your son/daughter to not know that Galactica 1980 exists and that TOS and RDM are the only episodes ever made? Perhaps they will be happier having never seen or heard of the travesty that is 1980? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 12:22, 19 January 2007 (CST)

Galactica Squadrons

While re-watching Act of Contrition I noticed a few more Galactica squadrons shown on the walls in the pilots' ready room. In the beginning of the ep when Adama enters, he touches the "Lest We Forget" picture then passes a squadron crest labeled "Vampires". A minute or two later, when we see Sgt. Hadrian standing against the wall, we can clearly see 7th Squadron "Battleaxe" and 4th squadron "Demons" on the wall behind her. How could one go about adding this to the wiki?AnteaterFeeder 21:04, 20 January 2007 (CST)

You can just create an article. /wiki/Vampire squadron -- then just create it. :-) Check out BW:MARK Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 21:13, 20 January 2007 (CST)

I recall seeing some of these squadrons (and their associated patches) floating around in some of the signatures of folks at the scifi.com bulletin boards and elsewhere. There's not much info to be had, so rather than creating a tiny article for each of those, maybe we should consider Squadrons of Galactica or Squadrons of the Colonial Fleet that lists out all the squadron names and insignia that we can find, with possible redirects to that article from the individual unit names. Maybe we should bring this up at List of Pilots (RDM) or a similar article, to see if we can find some other hands? --Steelviper 21:25, 20 January 2007 (CST)

That sounds like a good idea-- the "Galactica Squadrons" page. I wouldn't know how to go about making that page. I'm still pretty new at this. I did however note that the Vampires are the 6th squadron as well as an 8th squadron (an 8 on a red spade), and a Viper Weapons School logo on the walls too. I will bring this up in the list of pilots page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AnteaterFeeder (talk • contribs).

Agreed, one page for all squadrons is better. That can then incoporate the info found at Primus and Vigilantes now --Serenity 05:49, 21 January 2007 (CST)

I tried to post this last night (blasted internet), but something like Squadrons of Battlestar Galactica works. I've been collecting screenshots of the logos when I could trying to identify them, but unfortunately, most are too blurry to read with NTSC DVDs. There is also some good shots of crests during the debate scene in LDYB part I. Finally, there is also a crest for a "Viper Weapons School", presumably the colonial equivelant of the US Naval Fighter Weapons School, aka TOPGUN. This could be mentioned in the Colonial fleet article. --Talos 06:40, 21 January 2007 (CST)

I'll go ahead and create the article, by moving the Primus and Vigilante stuff there. Then someone else can add the others. EDIT: It can be found at Squadrons of Galactica, and maybe we should move further discussion there :) --Serenity 06:49, 21 January 2007 (CST)

Email

Umm... your's isn't a forward. :-) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:54, 2 February 2007 (CST)

Troyian User Page

• Thanks for the suggestion! I wasn't aware we could create subpages of our user pages. -- Troyian 09:33, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Podcast info

• Info came from the extended podcast. There's no available normal podcast. --LifeStar 08:56, 21 February 2007 (CST)

Hopefully a "normal" one will be released later (at least that's the way it seemed from the post they put up at the Scifi forums). If that occurs it might help to distinguish which podcast that info came from. Nice find, by the way. That one was confusing us over here. --Steelviper 08:59, 21 February 2007 (CST)

User:StarNeptune

Coincidentally, I just noticed your comment to this user on recent changes. That StarNeptune is almost certainly an impostor: I have never met the real StarNeptune in reality, only on Wookieepedia. That user is most likely a serial vandal from Wookieepedia and Wikipedia who's gone around impersonating and harassing people on other wikis. I don't know if you have checkuser, but if you do you'll likely find that the StarNeptune you were talking to is using either an open proxy or an ISP in Italy.

If you want, you can leave a message for StarNeptune on Wookieepedia to confirm this. Cheers, —Silly Dan _(talk) 11:14, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Whoops. I have the unfortunate habit of taking people at their word most of the time, and I occasionally get burned. I don't have checkuser, but I'll keep a close eye on that user. Thanks for the heads up. --Steelviper 11:29, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

I do have checkuser, and will try to make a cursory check on this user and let you know. There is no policy for user names between wikis, but there is a policy on inpersonating someone, which this user is obviously doing. --Spencerian 14:23, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Thanks

Thanks for the help cleaning up the Kobol links after the split. Much appreciated. There's a ton of them! JubalHarshaw 15:02, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

No, thank you! Such mopping is pretty much expected of sysops, but it's guys like you that help keep this place running. Speaking of which... --Steelviper 16:37, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

I have offered him the red mop, but he must choose to mop with it... --Spencerian 18:28, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

Minor Changes to Act 4 of podcast for Crossroads, Part II

I just wanted to let you know that I reviewed act 4 of the transcript for Crossroads, Part II and made a couple of changes. I included time clauses to let you know at what point in the podcast they took place so you could rereview them if you so chose. The only edit, of the two, I think you might dispute with was a change where RDM is talking about people not wanting to use the Galactic zoom-out shot at the end of the epi. You had "The people- at work wanted to drop it at one point. I think David wanted to drop it at one point." I changed it to: "The people- the network wanted to drop it at one point. I think David wanted to drop it at one point." He kind of mumbles the words but I believe he says network but it really could be either one so if you disagree with my edit I have no qualms about changing it back, but I wanted to give you a heads up about the edit. BTW RDM says this at 47:22 in the podcast, since i was bringing it up here in your talk page I thought I'd give you the time to reply here as well.--Zarek Rocks 11:38, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Ahhh. That's right. My effort was a "best guess" that was one step above an (unintelligible)... I could tell I wasn't quite right but I couldn't quite nail it down. I think you got it. Thanks! --Steelviper 18:07, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Have a good vacation!

Matt, enjoy your vacation! :-D -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:37, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

My RFA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 7/0/0. Thank you very much for your support. I'll continue to keep up the good work, and if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to contact me. JubalHarshaw 15:59, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

Frak Party podcast

I've transcribed the first 27 minutes of the Frak Party Q&A podcast, and I'm looking for some verification. As you see, we have no reservations about putting you right back to work ;)

BTW, how was Mexico? --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 08:35, 1 May 2007 (CDT)

Can do. I'll try to take a listen to it later this morning.

Mexico was relaxing. It was good timing as well, as I'm wrapping up my last three weeks of my current job before we move (and I transition into a full-time dad). --Steelviper 08:38, 1 May 2007 (CDT)

User:StarNeptune request

Though the user in question hasn't edited anything other than their userpage, I really must ask again that that username be blocked and (at least) that the userpage be deleted. Your blocking policy does state that users may be blocked for "personal details of other users without their consent ... whether the personal details are accurate or not." In this case, the user has posted inaccurate details about me (i.e. claiming to be my girlfriend) and both accurate and inaccurate details about another identifiable person (name, age, and province of residence of the StarNeptune from another wiki, plus the obvious inaccurate claims.) Thanks, —Silly Dan _(talk) 06:57, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

Done. Next time please contact us on the BW:AN page so everyone can see it. Thanks ;) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 07:00, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

Horray!

Horray for DSL! -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 17:05, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

Welcome back. As you can see on the front page, there's a bit of news.... --Spencerian 20:46, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

Thanks. I guess it's finally official (I wonder if EJO or Katee were flogged for spilling the beans). I can't say I'm that upset to see a show go out on its own terms. It'd be like B5 actually ending after Season 4 (or getting to go all through season 5 as originally intended). --Steelviper 20:53, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

Which was exactly my sentiment, which Mrs. Ron agreed to (as well as others with the level heads on Skiffy. --Spencerian 21:09, 1 June 2007 (CDT)