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Welcome to the Wiki, Miraba. Feel free to tell us about yourself on your user page. Before you get started on other edits, please read the Standards and Conventions, which details the policies we use in editing pages (this differs from many other wikis in its particular use of verb tense, abbreviations, formatting, and the like). If you need help in learning how to use the MediaWiki tools supported here, you can check out the tutorial and the wiki markup code pages for assistance.
Please read the articles "What is Battlestar Wiki" and "What Battlestar Wiki is Not." This important information details what contributions are acceptable in this encyclopedia.
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We look forward to your contributions to the community! --Shane (T - C - E) 20:06, 23 January 2007 (CST)
Standards and Conventions
Please have a look at Standards and Conventions. We write nearly all information on characters and episode in present tense. There are also some other conventions like putting ship names in italics or just saying "Galactica" instead of "the Galactica". --Serenity 09:55, 1 February 2007 (CST)
- Ok. It will be a bit of time before I automatically switch out of my other wiki habits, but I'll try to remember. Miraba 10:00, 1 February 2007 (CST)
- Don't worry. Noone expects to do everything perfectly at once, but writing in the present tense, except for example for events that took place before the show, helps keeping cleanup to a minimum, especially with larger contributions. Minor formatting is relatively easy for others to do, when they check additions for correctness. --Serenity 10:05, 1 February 2007 (CST)