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I'm registered for AutoWikiBrowser, so if any of you have a certain Find and Replace you'd like done to a large list of Stargate articles, let me know and I'll be happy to run it through.-- Alfakim -- talk 10:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Had this idea for a project newsletter, tell me what you think. I feel that half of our sizable list of participants don't integrate half as well as they could with the project because it's kind of non-dynamic. A newsletter could be put together by active project members maybe once every quarter (or more/less as needs be) - which will list things that have happened Stargate-wise on Wikipedia, and more importantly things that need to be done - particular projects for the quarter, collaborations, etc. Also, news and info for editors.
Participants can then sign up to the newsletter by adding their name to a list, and when the letter is done I can AutoWikiBrowse a message to everyone on the list to tell them that the new newsletter is out. I think this would really aid project coordination. This idea entirely relies, however, on a small team of fairly active/dedicated editors for the newsletter, so - anyone think this is a good idea? -- Alfakim -- talk 20:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Now when we merged Wraith and Asgard articles, I think it's time to have a look at the system lords. This has been discussed before but with no effect. Which of the system lords deserve their articles? I suggest Apophis, Anubis and Baal, eventually Yu. The others have only episode roles so we should merge them. Comments? -- Ton e 21:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
List of major System Lords: Cronus, Heru-ur, Ra, Sokar
List of minor Goa'uld: Amaterasu, Amonet, Hathor, Kytano, Nirrti, Osiris, Seth, Tanith, Zipacna
I think this would be the best solusion and perhaps we should ad Yu to the first list. So what do you think? Diabound00 06:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Tanith wasn't a system lord. anyway, we've already got a good list at System Lord - dont split it. As for system lords that actually should have articles outside of that list, we need Anubis, Baal and Apophis without any doubt. Ra - possibly - he's big but doesn't have much info. Sokar, Heru-ur, Yu, Nirrti - again, possibly. Yu is the most likely to have an article because he does have some information on him. -- Alfakim -- talk 14:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay -
Perfect. I can do it tomorrow or if you would like, you can do it yourself. -- Ton e 23:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
What's the current status of the episode articles? If there are some still needing work, do we need a list with the status of each article so people know where to work? -- Tango 15:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I've never seen Infinity either... I should probably find a copy of some somewhere... Anyway, I've had a go at expanding Out of Mind (Stargate SG-1), can someone take a look and tell me if that's enough of a plot description? (The rest of the story will obviously go in Into the fire (Stargate SG-1).) I've left it marked as a stub for now - can the stub tag be removed, or does it need more? -- Tango 16:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Please see Template_talk:Spoiler#CSS_class_good_solution_to_complaints for a solution. Armedblowfish 14:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Please stop it. I know it seems stupid to some, but Wikipedia conventions forbid the use of white text to hide spoilers. On the larger issue of whether to include GateWorld-released spoilers, if the people reading the text disregard the spoiler warning, that's their problem. Lockesdonkey 21:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes don't scare them off, but do let the person know. -- Alfakim -- talk 16:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
While we're on the topic of style, I've seen a lot of CSS breakage on different Stargate articles, where text is overlapping. Note that this can be dependent on browser and window size, and can actually be hard to fix. It tends to involve templates and other text-boxes. Armedblowfish 04:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
style="clear: both;"
into the style element of the table on those templates. This will be the only change needed to fix all of these problems. If you're not sure how to do this leave it to me, but I can't act immediately, give me a week so i can finish my exams! --
Alfakim --
talk 16:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Do we have a policy on which characters deserve articles of their own? I've just been working on Aris Boch, and basically it's just a plot summary of Deadman Switch (Stargate SG-1) and that's all it ever will be. Should the article just be merged with the episode, possibly with a redirect (either to the episode or List of Stargate characters)? -- Tango 11:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Minor Stargate characters#Aris Boch]]
Armedblowfish 15:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I prefer having one article as a list of minor characters to having a separate article for every one. And redirects to lines work, at least they did while I was merging the Asgards. I still have to find some time to merge the system lords... I didn't forget it, don't worry. -- Ton e 18:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I was adding additional ciations to DNA Resequencer and when I saved it the refs were really screwed up. I tried to fix them for an hour but couldn't figure out how. could someone please take a look? Tobyk777 04:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a widespread problem. People are assuming that episode citations refer to Stargate SG-1, when there is no reason for this bias (especially not when we're meant to be WP:NPOV). If making a citation within a paragraph use this format:
Do not use: "In the episode "Origin" the Ori said hello." This is to assume SG-1, which is wrong and uninformative.
A better way of doing things is to avoid episode citations of this form entirely. Favour inline <ref>
erences so that a full citation is linked but doesn't interrupt the paragraph. --
Alfakim --
talk 11:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
{{ sgspoiler}} allows you to specify a spoiler for a certain season of Stargate. If your spoiler covers more than one season, you have 3 options:
I really don't like the plot-info template. In what way is it different from usual spoilers? Besides, having some text in a box next to the rest of the article seems unesthetic for me. -- Ton e 13:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
this is a well-accepted thing... that we can say what dates things happen at. just to make it all clear, try to link to (and expand) Dates in Stargate when you mention dates. -- Alfakim -- talk 12:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I forgot to mention - I put Astrogate up for AfD. It's just a stub about a non-notable stargate forum. -- Tango 16:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Was it confirmed that the Asgard ship at the supergate in the season 9 finalie was an O'Neill? Or is it up to this point speculation? I mostly forget that night, I was in shock... American Patriot 1776 15:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I not only watched it, but I recorded it and watched it 7 times. After rewatching the season 4 primier, the ships look almost the same in every respect. I think it is safe to say it is an oniel and should be kept. One of the main reasons we write about stargate on wikipedia is to point out things that most viewers wouldn't notice. This is one of those things. Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
If you haven't seen the episode, do. It is my opinion that it is probably in the top 5 best Stargate episodes ever. Transcipts don't cut it. Watch this episode as soon as you can; buy it on DVD when it comes out, download it, loan it from a freind, watch it on someone's Tivo. what ever, you all just have to see the episode. Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
This is kind of irelevant, but my list of top Stargate episodes goes:
What are your guy's favriote episodes? Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
You gotta love that supergate opening though... woah. -- Alfakim -- talk 07:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
{{ Milky Way Gate Address}} and {{ Pegasus Gate Address}} both output be default: images 24px wide, with brackets around them. I would like to know where this format is used, if anywhere. It is extremely cumbersome. If no one can see a problem with it, I'd like to recode these templates to:
-- Alfakim -- talk 15:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
lorem ipsum.{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
lorem ipsum.{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.I agree in a block of text 16px is better, but I think gate addresses should be in tables and infoboxes more than they're in the actual text of an article. The text should be information that's useful and interesting to anyone reading the article, trivial stuff like gate addresses should be relegated to the infobox. Do we even have an infobox for planets? If not, shall I make one? -- Tango 13:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Should we add a "series" field too? (For saying if the character/race appears in SG-1 or Atlantis) I've just been adding in the key episodes for some characters, and I'm doing it without specifying the series because it's not worth the extra space, but the series should be mentioned somewhere. -- Tango 15:22, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A user has added that the planet name of the planet on which Atlantis is stationed is "Lantea", and cites the GateWorld omnipedia. I don't know if this was ever said on the show, and if not then I'd like to remove this. Then again, does the show ever use the word "Lanteans"? - But the producers do, so that counts. -- Alfakim -- talk 13:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I created a SG1 userbox awhile back and thought I put it here in case anyone else wanted to use it. GWatson • TALK 21:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
{{User SG1}}
{{
User SG1}}
If people want to use it, the name is {{
User SG1}}. --
Tango 22:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been reading through stargate episodes on wikipedia and I dislike being the one to say it, but the writing style of the plots doesn't seem right to me. Most of the writing is styled like this:
'At a rainy night, a man named Dr. Richard Flemming calls Major Carter while driving a car. He tells her that he knows about Adrian Conrad and what happened to her but suddenly there are crashing noises and the connection is terminated. '
Shouldn't it be more authoritative as:
'The episode opens with a man driving through a rainy night while making a phone call to Major Carter. The man identifies himself as Dr. Richard Flemming and hastily reveals that he knows about Adrian Conrad and about her. He informs Carter that the Symbiote research project was never terminated and asks for her help, but before he can give any more details the call is ended with the sound of a collison and a car skidding out of control.'
Then a paragraph break, then start on the briefing. It seems to me that writing such as this is more in line with Wikipedia's standards, I don't wish to offend anyone, but I do believe that the writing is not being styled correctly. Biscuit Knight 13:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I know season 10 isn't released yet, but I've heard of a guy who has 9&10, so I intend to follow that up. 9 hasn't been played on TV here, and if it is I doubt they'd do it correctly: Moebius was played as "the stargate SG-1 and Atlantis crossover episode!" - and they only played part one. I'd be better off buying them if I can find them.
About writing summaries: I can write summaries for all the 1-8 stubs there are, then work from Season 1 onwards once that's done. I assume there's already stubs for all the episodes? Biscuit Knight 06:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
What summaries are you refering to? The ones on the episode list? -- Tango 12:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
At $70 a season($700 for all seasons when they're released :o), it's costly to support the show, but yeah, pirating destroys the profits. I don't know how the guy got it, it's only a vague contact, I'd like to see where he got them, though I'd heard Season 9 was already out on DVD in the States? I live in Australia, when they played SG-1, they played it at varying times, with varying regularity. I remember years ago they played it at 7:30PM, since then it's been on at 9,10 and 11. I started watching it properly just before they began playing Atlantis. Now that I remember, the 'crossover' episode wasn't Moebius, it was actually Prometheus Unbound, which might vaguely classify as a crossover, but I'd think the Atlantis episode where they send messages home is more of a crossover than that. I caught parts of Reckoning P2 and Threads, then they played Moebius P1 before changing to Atlantis without playing P2, inexplicably. The playing of Atlantis was terrible, too. Some days they pushed it back by an hour for specials, other days cancelled it, twice they stopped it mid way through, the second time was for the London bombings though, so I don't resent that. But they skipped episodes and didn't repeat ones they missed and several times repeated episodes they're played completely. Basically over here Stargate seems to be a cult show that gets little respect by the channel, so even if they played it I wouldn't watch it because it'd just spoil it.
About the summaries; I assumed he meant that there were stubs with only vague premises. Perhaps he means the episode summaries in the list like you suggest. I don't know... Is there a complete list of stargate articles? The stargate category seems only to list some of the stuff. Maybe someone should look into that? I guess I'll focus on getting all the (Pre-S9) episode stubs cleared. I can't see any point writing the S9 episodes in full until someone's able to get hold of episodes they can watch repeatedly to get facts correct, otherwise it'll just be someone's memory really. Biscuit Knight 13:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
List of Stargate SG-1 episodes is complete, I think. Most of the episode articles (if not all) have transcripts linked, you can use those to check facts. Or you can rely on people like me who are sad enough to have encyclopedic knowledge of pretty much every episode... Feel free to test me. -- Tango 13:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I am concerned about the how well some of the references fulfill WP:Reliable sources. I think links from episode articles to offical sites ( MGM, SciFi, and SkyOne) would help (though in addition to, not instead of, the other references, as all three sites are rather poorly designed and contain less info than, say, transcripts). Since there's no way I know of to get episode-specific URLs for the MGM site, I was hoping Alfakim would use his AutoWikiBrowser to add the following to Stargate SG-1 Season 1-9 articles:
SciFi and SkyOne do have URLs I can link to specifically for each episode. Also, does anyone know of somewhere I can find bibliographical information for the DVDs without actually buying them? - Armedblowfish ( talk| contribs) 19:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Depending on the types of links (how the URL) works it may or may not be possible to use AWB for this. I will, however, attempt to AWB the Stargateproject template. As for this, I can only do F&R (find and replace), although I CAN include the article title. how do the URLs work? -- Alfakim -- talk 01:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
== External links ==
==External links==
== External links == * [http://www.stargatesg1.com/stargatelb.html Official Stargate SG-1 site]. MGM. Visited June 5, 2006. Requires flash. <!-- There is a synopsis of the episode in there, but it cannot be linked to directly to our knowledge. -->
Hi, we currently have a template, Template:Stargateproject, which basicaly says that the page falls withtin the domain of this project. Although I don't know how to do this, I know that a lot of templates, especialy userboxes, form catagroies where every page which includes the template are located. I think it might be prudent to do. I don't know how to do this, but I do think it would be nice to have one catagory which lists all pages related to stargate. Tobyk777 00:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't we try and have our list of SG episodes on it? That would make sense... American Patriot 1776 13:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this, or even if it belongs on WP, but I see no harm in asking it. There are 2 plot developments I thought of which I think would be and great. I was just wondering what you guys thought of them:
What do you think? Tobyk777 02:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Human-Form_Replicators
Alright, so in a private email conversation between myself and Michelle of StargateWiki, Michelle pointed out that the URLs for StargateWiki have been modified due to a change in hosting. The old URLs will continue to work using redirection, but the new ones will work faster. So:
http://wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/index.php/3.03_%22Fair_Game%22_Transcript
would become:
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/3.03_%22Fair_Game%22_Transcript
Anyways, Alfakim - would it be possible for you to use AWB to change the links? Or should this be done manually?
- Armedblowfish ( talk| contribs) 18:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Use the SG cite or normal ref. We seem to have a mix in Stargate (device) so what about everything else (and the Stargate device article) American Patriot 1776 19:38, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Every article now has its own personalised "things to do" list. It is accessed through the sub-menu of {{ Stargateproject}} (the blue WikiProject banner at the top). So on the Talk page of any Stargate article, you can now select, read and add article-specific tasks. -- Alfakim -- talk 23:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
The {{
sgcite}} template is very useful for talking about episodes as inline text, but it is not recommended for use when referencing (i.e. in <ref>
tags). In many places it is being used as a way to reference episodes (e.g. {{sgcite|Lost City|1|show=ref}}
), but {{
cite episode}} is much prefered. But there is an answer!
Calls to {{ sgcite}} can be easily converted into calls to {{ cite episode}} with the help of {{ xsgcite}}. Simply do the following:
{{sgcite|Lost City}}
{{subst:xsgcite|Lost City}}
and when you save, the use of {{ sgcite}} will have converted to a use of {{ cite episode}}. This will be useful in maintenance when references must be brought up to standard. {{ xsgcite}} can also be used on its own to generate proper references to Stargate episodes quickly. Remember that it must always be substed.
See the {{ xsgcite}} template page for further details. -- Alfakim -- talk 01:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I discovered that template substitution doesn't work inside ref tags. This meant that to convert citations you'd have to remove the tags, save, and then put them back, and save again. I solved this. Now, all you need to do is remove the tags and save - the subtitution adds the tags back automatically.
{{sgcite|Lost City|show=ref}}
{{subst:xsgcite|Lost City|show=ref}}
This converts an {{
sgcite}} reference usage into a full {{
cite episode}} usage including the surrounding <ref>
tags. On saving, the above gives:
<ref name="Lost City">{{cite episode|title=Lost City|episodelink=Lost City (Stargate SG-1)|series=Stargate SG-1|serieslink=Stargate SG-1}}</ref>
This does now make it tons easier to cite Stargate articles properly. -- Alfakim -- talk 14:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
has anyone heard anything about a new stargate fim or a new spin off series? it is mentioned [ here ] but there is very limited info and no sources
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I'm registered for AutoWikiBrowser, so if any of you have a certain Find and Replace you'd like done to a large list of Stargate articles, let me know and I'll be happy to run it through.-- Alfakim -- talk 10:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Had this idea for a project newsletter, tell me what you think. I feel that half of our sizable list of participants don't integrate half as well as they could with the project because it's kind of non-dynamic. A newsletter could be put together by active project members maybe once every quarter (or more/less as needs be) - which will list things that have happened Stargate-wise on Wikipedia, and more importantly things that need to be done - particular projects for the quarter, collaborations, etc. Also, news and info for editors.
Participants can then sign up to the newsletter by adding their name to a list, and when the letter is done I can AutoWikiBrowse a message to everyone on the list to tell them that the new newsletter is out. I think this would really aid project coordination. This idea entirely relies, however, on a small team of fairly active/dedicated editors for the newsletter, so - anyone think this is a good idea? -- Alfakim -- talk 20:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Now when we merged Wraith and Asgard articles, I think it's time to have a look at the system lords. This has been discussed before but with no effect. Which of the system lords deserve their articles? I suggest Apophis, Anubis and Baal, eventually Yu. The others have only episode roles so we should merge them. Comments? -- Ton e 21:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
List of major System Lords: Cronus, Heru-ur, Ra, Sokar
List of minor Goa'uld: Amaterasu, Amonet, Hathor, Kytano, Nirrti, Osiris, Seth, Tanith, Zipacna
I think this would be the best solusion and perhaps we should ad Yu to the first list. So what do you think? Diabound00 06:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Tanith wasn't a system lord. anyway, we've already got a good list at System Lord - dont split it. As for system lords that actually should have articles outside of that list, we need Anubis, Baal and Apophis without any doubt. Ra - possibly - he's big but doesn't have much info. Sokar, Heru-ur, Yu, Nirrti - again, possibly. Yu is the most likely to have an article because he does have some information on him. -- Alfakim -- talk 14:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay -
Perfect. I can do it tomorrow or if you would like, you can do it yourself. -- Ton e 23:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
What's the current status of the episode articles? If there are some still needing work, do we need a list with the status of each article so people know where to work? -- Tango 15:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I've never seen Infinity either... I should probably find a copy of some somewhere... Anyway, I've had a go at expanding Out of Mind (Stargate SG-1), can someone take a look and tell me if that's enough of a plot description? (The rest of the story will obviously go in Into the fire (Stargate SG-1).) I've left it marked as a stub for now - can the stub tag be removed, or does it need more? -- Tango 16:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Please see Template_talk:Spoiler#CSS_class_good_solution_to_complaints for a solution. Armedblowfish 14:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Please stop it. I know it seems stupid to some, but Wikipedia conventions forbid the use of white text to hide spoilers. On the larger issue of whether to include GateWorld-released spoilers, if the people reading the text disregard the spoiler warning, that's their problem. Lockesdonkey 21:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes don't scare them off, but do let the person know. -- Alfakim -- talk 16:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
While we're on the topic of style, I've seen a lot of CSS breakage on different Stargate articles, where text is overlapping. Note that this can be dependent on browser and window size, and can actually be hard to fix. It tends to involve templates and other text-boxes. Armedblowfish 04:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
style="clear: both;"
into the style element of the table on those templates. This will be the only change needed to fix all of these problems. If you're not sure how to do this leave it to me, but I can't act immediately, give me a week so i can finish my exams! --
Alfakim --
talk 16:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Do we have a policy on which characters deserve articles of their own? I've just been working on Aris Boch, and basically it's just a plot summary of Deadman Switch (Stargate SG-1) and that's all it ever will be. Should the article just be merged with the episode, possibly with a redirect (either to the episode or List of Stargate characters)? -- Tango 11:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[Minor Stargate characters#Aris Boch]]
Armedblowfish 15:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I prefer having one article as a list of minor characters to having a separate article for every one. And redirects to lines work, at least they did while I was merging the Asgards. I still have to find some time to merge the system lords... I didn't forget it, don't worry. -- Ton e 18:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I was adding additional ciations to DNA Resequencer and when I saved it the refs were really screwed up. I tried to fix them for an hour but couldn't figure out how. could someone please take a look? Tobyk777 04:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a widespread problem. People are assuming that episode citations refer to Stargate SG-1, when there is no reason for this bias (especially not when we're meant to be WP:NPOV). If making a citation within a paragraph use this format:
Do not use: "In the episode "Origin" the Ori said hello." This is to assume SG-1, which is wrong and uninformative.
A better way of doing things is to avoid episode citations of this form entirely. Favour inline <ref>
erences so that a full citation is linked but doesn't interrupt the paragraph. --
Alfakim --
talk 11:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
{{ sgspoiler}} allows you to specify a spoiler for a certain season of Stargate. If your spoiler covers more than one season, you have 3 options:
I really don't like the plot-info template. In what way is it different from usual spoilers? Besides, having some text in a box next to the rest of the article seems unesthetic for me. -- Ton e 13:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
this is a well-accepted thing... that we can say what dates things happen at. just to make it all clear, try to link to (and expand) Dates in Stargate when you mention dates. -- Alfakim -- talk 12:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I forgot to mention - I put Astrogate up for AfD. It's just a stub about a non-notable stargate forum. -- Tango 16:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Was it confirmed that the Asgard ship at the supergate in the season 9 finalie was an O'Neill? Or is it up to this point speculation? I mostly forget that night, I was in shock... American Patriot 1776 15:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I not only watched it, but I recorded it and watched it 7 times. After rewatching the season 4 primier, the ships look almost the same in every respect. I think it is safe to say it is an oniel and should be kept. One of the main reasons we write about stargate on wikipedia is to point out things that most viewers wouldn't notice. This is one of those things. Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
If you haven't seen the episode, do. It is my opinion that it is probably in the top 5 best Stargate episodes ever. Transcipts don't cut it. Watch this episode as soon as you can; buy it on DVD when it comes out, download it, loan it from a freind, watch it on someone's Tivo. what ever, you all just have to see the episode. Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
This is kind of irelevant, but my list of top Stargate episodes goes:
What are your guy's favriote episodes? Tobyk777 04:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
You gotta love that supergate opening though... woah. -- Alfakim -- talk 07:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
{{ Milky Way Gate Address}} and {{ Pegasus Gate Address}} both output be default: images 24px wide, with brackets around them. I would like to know where this format is used, if anywhere. It is extremely cumbersome. If no one can see a problem with it, I'd like to recode these templates to:
-- Alfakim -- talk 15:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
lorem ipsum.{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
lorem ipsum.{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
{{
Milky Way Gate Address|09|02|23|15|37|20}}
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.I agree in a block of text 16px is better, but I think gate addresses should be in tables and infoboxes more than they're in the actual text of an article. The text should be information that's useful and interesting to anyone reading the article, trivial stuff like gate addresses should be relegated to the infobox. Do we even have an infobox for planets? If not, shall I make one? -- Tango 13:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Should we add a "series" field too? (For saying if the character/race appears in SG-1 or Atlantis) I've just been adding in the key episodes for some characters, and I'm doing it without specifying the series because it's not worth the extra space, but the series should be mentioned somewhere. -- Tango 15:22, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A user has added that the planet name of the planet on which Atlantis is stationed is "Lantea", and cites the GateWorld omnipedia. I don't know if this was ever said on the show, and if not then I'd like to remove this. Then again, does the show ever use the word "Lanteans"? - But the producers do, so that counts. -- Alfakim -- talk 13:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I created a SG1 userbox awhile back and thought I put it here in case anyone else wanted to use it. GWatson • TALK 21:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
{{User SG1}}
{{
User SG1}}
If people want to use it, the name is {{
User SG1}}. --
Tango 22:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been reading through stargate episodes on wikipedia and I dislike being the one to say it, but the writing style of the plots doesn't seem right to me. Most of the writing is styled like this:
'At a rainy night, a man named Dr. Richard Flemming calls Major Carter while driving a car. He tells her that he knows about Adrian Conrad and what happened to her but suddenly there are crashing noises and the connection is terminated. '
Shouldn't it be more authoritative as:
'The episode opens with a man driving through a rainy night while making a phone call to Major Carter. The man identifies himself as Dr. Richard Flemming and hastily reveals that he knows about Adrian Conrad and about her. He informs Carter that the Symbiote research project was never terminated and asks for her help, but before he can give any more details the call is ended with the sound of a collison and a car skidding out of control.'
Then a paragraph break, then start on the briefing. It seems to me that writing such as this is more in line with Wikipedia's standards, I don't wish to offend anyone, but I do believe that the writing is not being styled correctly. Biscuit Knight 13:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I know season 10 isn't released yet, but I've heard of a guy who has 9&10, so I intend to follow that up. 9 hasn't been played on TV here, and if it is I doubt they'd do it correctly: Moebius was played as "the stargate SG-1 and Atlantis crossover episode!" - and they only played part one. I'd be better off buying them if I can find them.
About writing summaries: I can write summaries for all the 1-8 stubs there are, then work from Season 1 onwards once that's done. I assume there's already stubs for all the episodes? Biscuit Knight 06:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
What summaries are you refering to? The ones on the episode list? -- Tango 12:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
At $70 a season($700 for all seasons when they're released :o), it's costly to support the show, but yeah, pirating destroys the profits. I don't know how the guy got it, it's only a vague contact, I'd like to see where he got them, though I'd heard Season 9 was already out on DVD in the States? I live in Australia, when they played SG-1, they played it at varying times, with varying regularity. I remember years ago they played it at 7:30PM, since then it's been on at 9,10 and 11. I started watching it properly just before they began playing Atlantis. Now that I remember, the 'crossover' episode wasn't Moebius, it was actually Prometheus Unbound, which might vaguely classify as a crossover, but I'd think the Atlantis episode where they send messages home is more of a crossover than that. I caught parts of Reckoning P2 and Threads, then they played Moebius P1 before changing to Atlantis without playing P2, inexplicably. The playing of Atlantis was terrible, too. Some days they pushed it back by an hour for specials, other days cancelled it, twice they stopped it mid way through, the second time was for the London bombings though, so I don't resent that. But they skipped episodes and didn't repeat ones they missed and several times repeated episodes they're played completely. Basically over here Stargate seems to be a cult show that gets little respect by the channel, so even if they played it I wouldn't watch it because it'd just spoil it.
About the summaries; I assumed he meant that there were stubs with only vague premises. Perhaps he means the episode summaries in the list like you suggest. I don't know... Is there a complete list of stargate articles? The stargate category seems only to list some of the stuff. Maybe someone should look into that? I guess I'll focus on getting all the (Pre-S9) episode stubs cleared. I can't see any point writing the S9 episodes in full until someone's able to get hold of episodes they can watch repeatedly to get facts correct, otherwise it'll just be someone's memory really. Biscuit Knight 13:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
List of Stargate SG-1 episodes is complete, I think. Most of the episode articles (if not all) have transcripts linked, you can use those to check facts. Or you can rely on people like me who are sad enough to have encyclopedic knowledge of pretty much every episode... Feel free to test me. -- Tango 13:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I am concerned about the how well some of the references fulfill WP:Reliable sources. I think links from episode articles to offical sites ( MGM, SciFi, and SkyOne) would help (though in addition to, not instead of, the other references, as all three sites are rather poorly designed and contain less info than, say, transcripts). Since there's no way I know of to get episode-specific URLs for the MGM site, I was hoping Alfakim would use his AutoWikiBrowser to add the following to Stargate SG-1 Season 1-9 articles:
SciFi and SkyOne do have URLs I can link to specifically for each episode. Also, does anyone know of somewhere I can find bibliographical information for the DVDs without actually buying them? - Armedblowfish ( talk| contribs) 19:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Depending on the types of links (how the URL) works it may or may not be possible to use AWB for this. I will, however, attempt to AWB the Stargateproject template. As for this, I can only do F&R (find and replace), although I CAN include the article title. how do the URLs work? -- Alfakim -- talk 01:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
== External links ==
==External links==
== External links == * [http://www.stargatesg1.com/stargatelb.html Official Stargate SG-1 site]. MGM. Visited June 5, 2006. Requires flash. <!-- There is a synopsis of the episode in there, but it cannot be linked to directly to our knowledge. -->
Hi, we currently have a template, Template:Stargateproject, which basicaly says that the page falls withtin the domain of this project. Although I don't know how to do this, I know that a lot of templates, especialy userboxes, form catagroies where every page which includes the template are located. I think it might be prudent to do. I don't know how to do this, but I do think it would be nice to have one catagory which lists all pages related to stargate. Tobyk777 00:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't we try and have our list of SG episodes on it? That would make sense... American Patriot 1776 13:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this, or even if it belongs on WP, but I see no harm in asking it. There are 2 plot developments I thought of which I think would be and great. I was just wondering what you guys thought of them:
What do you think? Tobyk777 02:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Human-Form_Replicators
Alright, so in a private email conversation between myself and Michelle of StargateWiki, Michelle pointed out that the URLs for StargateWiki have been modified due to a change in hosting. The old URLs will continue to work using redirection, but the new ones will work faster. So:
http://wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/index.php/3.03_%22Fair_Game%22_Transcript
would become:
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/3.03_%22Fair_Game%22_Transcript
Anyways, Alfakim - would it be possible for you to use AWB to change the links? Or should this be done manually?
- Armedblowfish ( talk| contribs) 18:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Use the SG cite or normal ref. We seem to have a mix in Stargate (device) so what about everything else (and the Stargate device article) American Patriot 1776 19:38, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Every article now has its own personalised "things to do" list. It is accessed through the sub-menu of {{ Stargateproject}} (the blue WikiProject banner at the top). So on the Talk page of any Stargate article, you can now select, read and add article-specific tasks. -- Alfakim -- talk 23:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
The {{
sgcite}} template is very useful for talking about episodes as inline text, but it is not recommended for use when referencing (i.e. in <ref>
tags). In many places it is being used as a way to reference episodes (e.g. {{sgcite|Lost City|1|show=ref}}
), but {{
cite episode}} is much prefered. But there is an answer!
Calls to {{ sgcite}} can be easily converted into calls to {{ cite episode}} with the help of {{ xsgcite}}. Simply do the following:
{{sgcite|Lost City}}
{{subst:xsgcite|Lost City}}
and when you save, the use of {{ sgcite}} will have converted to a use of {{ cite episode}}. This will be useful in maintenance when references must be brought up to standard. {{ xsgcite}} can also be used on its own to generate proper references to Stargate episodes quickly. Remember that it must always be substed.
See the {{ xsgcite}} template page for further details. -- Alfakim -- talk 01:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I discovered that template substitution doesn't work inside ref tags. This meant that to convert citations you'd have to remove the tags, save, and then put them back, and save again. I solved this. Now, all you need to do is remove the tags and save - the subtitution adds the tags back automatically.
{{sgcite|Lost City|show=ref}}
{{subst:xsgcite|Lost City|show=ref}}
This converts an {{
sgcite}} reference usage into a full {{
cite episode}} usage including the surrounding <ref>
tags. On saving, the above gives:
<ref name="Lost City">{{cite episode|title=Lost City|episodelink=Lost City (Stargate SG-1)|series=Stargate SG-1|serieslink=Stargate SG-1}}</ref>
This does now make it tons easier to cite Stargate articles properly. -- Alfakim -- talk 14:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
has anyone heard anything about a new stargate fim or a new spin off series? it is mentioned [ here ] but there is very limited info and no sources