Battlestar Wiki:The Twelve Colonies: Difference between revisions

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To-do list for articles about the Twelve Colonies.

General Considerations

Currently articles are titled in the form "X of/in the Twelve Colonies".

Should individual articles be of the general form "Colonial Religion", "Colonial Government", "Colonial History" (ie, the Colonials as a people, including the Twelve Colonies AND the Fleet) or should Fleet issues be given their own series?

Template

Template:Twelve Colonies Series exists to link main articles relating to this topic into a series. The following articles are in good shape:

Commentary or criticism apart from their place in this series should go to their respective talk pages.

The other links, Government and History, currently link to articles chosen somewhat arbitrarily, in order to provide a good idea of the ground we need to cover. Discussion of their direction should take place on this WikiProject, since the specific articles linked to are not necessarily good candidates for expansion.

The Twelve Colonies

Given that there is not enough information on the Twelve Colonies as a group and the colonies as individuals to justify thirteen separate articles, The Twelve Colonies currently includes all available data. As more information becomes available about individual colonies, it may become necessary to give them articles of their own. When this happens, the following markup should be inserted between the heading in question and its content:

''Main article: [[Caprica]]''

The articles Caprica, Picon, Scorpion, Tauron and Virgon, which share names with their TOS incarnations, link to disambiguation pages. The articles Aerelon, Aquaria, Canceron, Gemenon, Leonis, and Sagittaron all redirect to the appropriate headings of the main article. Unfortunately, under the current version of WikiMedia, redirects cannot take a visitor to article headings. To link directly to the section of the main article that corresponds to the colony you want, use a construction such as:

[[The Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]].

Because of the existence of redirects, this is not critical, but it will make for a more pleasant experience on the part of our readers.

History

History currently links to Re-Imagined Series Timeline. The article History of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol is fanfic and should be deleted, but we need a more robust article located at History of the Twelve Colonies. Such an article should contain:

A conservative reading of the historical information available from the Sacred Scrolls on the exodus from Kobol and founding of the twelve colonies
A history of the inter-colonial fighting which lead to the Articles of Colonization
- Including notes on Sagittaron's exploitation by the other colonies (Bastille Day)
A merger and redirect from the material in Cylon War

Government

Currently links to Government. Move to Government of the Twelve Colonies and expand.

As per general considerations: Should Fleet issues be separated from the former government of the Twelve Colonies?

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   <code><nowiki>''Main article: [[Caprica]]''</nowiki></code>
-The articles Caprica, Picon, Scorpion, Picon and Virgon, which share names with their [[TOS]] incarnations, link to disambiguation pages. The articles Aerelon, Aquaria, Canceron, Gemenon, Leonis, and Sagittaron all redirect to the appropriate headings of the main article. Unfortunately, under the current version of WikiMedia, redirects cannot take a visitor to article headings. To link directly to the section of the main article that corresponds to the colony you want, use a construction such as:
+The articles Caprica, Picon, Scorpion, Tauron and Virgon, which share names with their [[TOS]] incarnations, link to disambiguation pages. The articles Aerelon, Aquaria, Canceron, Gemenon, Leonis, and Sagittaron all redirect to the appropriate headings of the main article. Unfortunately, under the current version of WikiMedia, redirects cannot take a visitor to article headings. To link directly to the section of the main article that corresponds to the colony you want, use a construction such as:
   <nowiki>[[The Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]]</nowiki>.