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• Category:Descriptive terms
  Battlestar Wiki uses '''[[BW:TERM|descriptive terms]]''' to give names to technologies and other subjects whi
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• Cat
  The term "cat" may refer to the following in the [[Re-imagined Series]], where house * A greeting between [[William Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]] in the [[BW:TERM|descriptive]] article, [[Nothing but the rain]]
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• Timeline
  Please select a specific reference for the term, '''timeline'''. ** For a chronology of events in [[BW:SEP|separate continuity]] materials, see [[Timeline (TOS alternate)]].
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• Battlestar Wiki:Edit war
  {{Policy|shortcut=BW:EW|2006 October 25}} ...r''' have emerged. Both are included for clarification. Some consider the term to describe two or more contributors' repeated [[Battlestar Wiki:Reverting
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• Unknown craft (RDM)
  (The names used here to describe the ships are [[BW:TERM|Battlestar Wiki descriptive terms]].)
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• Battlestar Wiki:Spoiler Policy
  {{Policy|23 September 2005|shortcut=BW:SP<br/>BW:SPOIL<br/>BW:SPOILER}} ...her talk page. Dismissal of the warnings may result in short-term or long-term banning, depending on the circumstances.
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• Battlestar Wiki:Harassment
  {{Policy|shortcut=BW:HA<br/>BW:HAR<br/>BW:STALK|2006 October 25}} ...ditors from enjoying '''Battlestar Wiki''' by making threats, nitpicking [[BW:AGF |good-faith]] edits to different articles, repeated personal attacks or
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• Battlestar Wiki:Descriptive term
  {{Policy|20 February 2007|shortcut=BW:TERM}} Once a subject, character or item has an official term, the descriptive terms are retired and used as redirects.
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• Battlestar Wiki:News Policy
  {{policy|14 June 2007|shortcut=BW:NP}} ...This way, other administrators (who are tasked with enforcing the wiki's [[BW:CJ|citation and sourcing policies]]) can determine if the item is authentic
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• New Caprican Leaf
  : ''For a [[BW:SILLY|silly]] treatment of this topic, see [[New Caprican loco weed]].''<br '''New Caprican leaf'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> refers to a mildy-psychotropic plant indigenous to [[New Caprica]].
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• Battlestar Wiki:Username policy
  {{Policy|20 January 2007|shortcut=BW:NAMES}} *The name implies the user is an administrator account or [[BW:BOT|bot]], intentionally or otherwise.
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• Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/Disambiguations
  ...ns on Formatting|image=BSG WIKI SC.png|shortcut=BW:DIS<br/>BW:DISAMBIG<br/>BW:NAVAID}} ...s follow a basic format: an introductory sentence, with the disambiguation term '''boldfaced''', followed by one-sentence bullet points about each article
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• Nothing but the rain
  *"Nothing but the rain" is a Battlestar Wiki [[BW:TERM|descriptive term]].
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• Battlestar Wiki:Canon
  ...n the context of a dramatized or written story. The term was originally a term used to differentiate heretical from accepted scripture in the [[w:Roman Ca ...h non-canonical characters, events and situations in accordance with its [[BW:SEP|separate continuity]] policy.
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• Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/Formatting
  ...and Conventions on Formatting|image=BSG WIKI SC.png|shortcut=BW:FORMAT<br/>BW:FORMATTING}} The usage of [[BW:MARKUP|Wiki code]] supersedes the use of HTML coding on Battlestar Wiki. Wi
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• Battlestar Wiki:About
  {{Project|About|shortcut=BW:A|image=BSG-WIKI SM.png}} ...turalistic science fiction]], leads to an entry on this website about that term. Above it, you will find a list of tabs. In this group of tabs, you'll find
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• Battlestar Wiki:Blocking policy
  {{Policy|shortcut=BW:BLOCK|2006 October 25}} ...r unblocking. If blocking for a reason not listed, be sure to note it on [[BW:AN]] for sanity-checking.
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• Battlestar Wiki:Banning policy
  {{Policy|30 August 2006|shortcut=BW:BAN}} ;'''Long term blocks'''
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• Battlestar Wiki:Things you just don't do, not even in war
  {{policy|shortcut=BW:THINGS<br/>BW:CAIN<br/>BW:WAR|5 October 2006}} Remember: "[[BW:AGF|Assume good faith]]" is a nicer restatement of [[w:Hanlon's Razor|"Neve
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• Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions
  {{project|Standards and Conventions|image=BSG WIKI SC.png|shortcut=BW:SC<br/>BW:SAC}} * Always use [[BW:MARKUP|Wiki code]] instead of HTML code, unless the Wiki code equivalent do
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• Battery
  ...ese are not [[w:Railgun|railguns]]. No [[BW:CJ|official sources]] use this term to describe these weapons, and there is substantial evidence to the contrar
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• List of terms (RDM)
  *'''[[FTL]]''': Faster Than Light. A descriptive term referring to technologies that enable travel across distances faster than t *"{{inlineref|dress and cover}}": military term for personnel to form an ordered rank-and-file formation during ceremonies.
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• Encyclopedia Galactica
  ...contradictory information, it is '''not considered''' a fully canonical [[BW:CJ|source text]] for the Original Series. Battlestar Wiki does aim to note ...ne" is defined as "compact, pilotless spacecraft" developed by humans. The term "[[List of terms (TOS)|drone]]" as defined in the series refers to robots,
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• Battlestar Wiki:Real point of view
  {{Proposed Policy|shortcut=BW:REAL}} ...ed films or television shows. For instance, one contributor noted that the term "Boomer" was used in the manga anime ''Bubblegum Crisis'' to describe the a
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• Talk:DRADIS
  :I'd be happy to see a source for this term; I'd rather not make it up if RDM has the acronym down. He's normally not i :: We need a definite and official source for what this term means. Personally, I don't believe that it is well defined, if at all. --
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• Weapons in the Re-imagined Series
  A kinetic energy weapon<ref>This is a Battlestar Wiki [[BW:TERM|descriptive term]], as is its acronym "KEW".</ref> is a weapon that causes damage as a resul ...railguns) <ref name="viperguns">As related by [[Bradley Thompson]] in an [[BW:OC|Official Communiques]] entry on [[Battlestar_Wiki:Official_Communiques/A
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• Talk:Sometimes a Great Notion
  ...to [[BW:BOLD|be bold]] take it upon yourself to add it, as long as it's [[BW:CJ|cited]]. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe ...ht it was a safety deposit box as well (which would lend well towards long term storage, if that's applicable. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:10, 20 J
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• Battlestar Wiki talk:Standards and Conventions
  ...s should '''never be used''', due to fair use concerns and the fact that [[BW:NOT|Battlestar Wiki is not an image gallery]]. ...Quorum_of_Twelve|Review this]] for why we use "delegate," the more precise term than "representative." -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[Use
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• Talk:Cylon Centurion Model 0005
  ..."[[yahren]]" on it. Obviously, the Colonials in the new BSG don't use that term for year. (Then again, I suppose that the paper wasn't supposed to have be ...eally no way to know for sure, other than to pop a few questions over at [[BW:OC|the Official Communiques]] and hope for an answer. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoi
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• The Destiny
  :''For information on an Original Series [[BW:SEP|separate continuity novel]], see [[Destiny (book)]].'' In popular usage, the term "apocalypse" has incorrectly been used as a synonym for "armageddon", the e
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• Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques
  {{project|Official Communique's|image=BSG WIKI Official CrewCast.png|shortcut=BW:OC}} ...ocument the etymology. Ron D. Moore's "Caprica," has a character coin the term, saying, "A cybernetic life-form node, a Cylon." But as "Caprica" has yet
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• Talk:Scar
  ...are becoming more frequent, even on talk pages. Not sure if there is long-term help for this (or any wiki). --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:42, 5 Febr Per [[BW:FORUM]], these answers needed to be removed from the questions area. Here's
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• Battlestar Wiki talk:Citation Jihad
  ...pparent that no one else really called her that. My point being, we use a term of convenience, we just reinforce it. No, I don't think SkyOne's info is e ...nd storing them in our own repository for later use... Perhaps even on the BW Media wiki. Of course, the only issue that immediately comes to mind is one
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• Humanoid Cylon speculation
  ...[[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive8#Identity of the Final Five|BW:OC#Identity of the Final Five]]</ref> ...ns seem to be more robust than humans and possibly may not carry such long-term injuries. The same may be said of the knee injury which put a stop to Thrac
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• Talk:Daybreak, Part II
  ...series it is difficult if not impossible for a pure Cylon child to come to term making any pool of pure Cylon children that were successfully born very sma ...d. As soon as the noise dies down we can move some pressing questions to [[BW:OC|our special Q&A page answered by BSG co-producer Bradley Thompson]]. In
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• Humanoid Cylon
  :''This article is capitalized for technical reasons. The correct term is "humanoid Cylon" and is not a proper noun.'' ...uring Season 1. Here on the ''Battlestar Wiki'', the [[BW:TERM|descriptive term]] "Humano-Cylon" was used for a time. Dialogue in several episodes througho
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• Talk:Rapture
  ...ne of the final five would be a good way to write him out, but in the near-term, it's just not a possibility. I've got a bit of an issue with the continued use of the term "mandala when referring to the carving in the temple and to Starbuck's pain
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• Daybreak, Part II
  ...a statement in the article body. This article will be naturally long; be [[BW:CON|concise]] and avoid unnecessary detail. Thanks! ...he system by Racetrack and Skulls. They would not, however, have any long term survival prospects, having failed in both their plan to discover the secret
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• William Adama
  ...Galactica (2005 Novel)|Miniseries novelization]], which is considered a [[BW:SEPCON|separate continuity]] source.</ref> by his first co-pilot, [[Coker F ...ence fiction film ''[[w:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]]'', which also used the term "skin job" as a pejorative to denote the artificial humanoids.
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• He That Believeth In Me
  ...e That Believ<u>a</u>th In Me". Writer [[User:Ngarenn|Bradley Thompson]] [[BW:OC#Season 4 First Episode Title|confirmed]] that this was an unintentional ...ing the Final Five models, even after they've been "activated," to use the term loosely.
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