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Posted Jul 29, 2002 by Excelsior
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  | | Ah, I'd not italicised the names of shows, right? I'll have to remember that, I think I remember reading it but it must have slipped my mind. One question - can you explain your reasoning for italicising "X Bomber"? For the most part it's the name of a spaceship rather than the Japanese name for the show, so I'm not quite clear why it needs the italics when other ships like "The Skull" and "Dai X" don't have them?
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Posted Jul 30, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Just looking at it again, there's a problem with the link to "DVD" that you've added in the final paragraph - there's a space character before the Article code which breaks the link. The article number is correct, I've tried it manually, but that's why it doesn't show up on the list of references sites...
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| | | Subject: Star Fleet
Posted Jul 30, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Ah, right. Erm - Dai X was a robot that could fly which was made up of three smaller ships which I'd call collectively the Dai X fighters. Heh. Now you're stuck, aren't you!! I think those are the only named ships, the enemy's big ship was always just "Makara's battlecruiser" or similar, no name as such...
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Posted Jul 30, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Sorry, one more - the Death Ball is also mentioned, but it's a sort of hover tank rather than a spaceship. Can you point me to a reference for the "ships must be italicised" rule - is it intended to apply to fictional ships, or just real world ships? I'm thinking perhaps it's only supposed to apply to proper nautical ships...?
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Posted Jul 30, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Oooh, I wish I could edit previous posts! I've read the entry on italics now and I don't think it's intended to refer to fictional space ships - just to real world ships. In the context where it's mentioned things like "The Daily Telegraph" would get italics - it's real world titles, rather than made up ones. Hopefully it won't be too much hassle to change them back, it does make things look a little, um, slanty?!
The only place where italics would be needed is in that final paragraph where X Bomber and Bomber X are, in that context, names of TV shows. Hope that's doable... Although I notice that in this article, http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A577037 , Millennium Falcon gets italics but Slave 1 doesn't... I suppose it's open to interpretation, but in this instance I wouldn't use italics, personally.
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Posted Aug 1, 2002 by Smiley Ben
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| | Hi,
I chatted to all the editors today, and a policy decision was made. Basically we concluded that spaceships (including fictional ones) are ships, and therefore should be italicised. I think the thinking was basically that, given this site is based on the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it should respect science fiction, and its extension of current norms.
Anyway, that's what the conclusion was. Hope that helps!
Cheers again for the article, it should be up on the front page soon!
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Posted Aug 15, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Hi, just wondering when the editors might finish the entry? I thought perhaps with the current Captain Scarlet entries on the front page my Star Fleet one would follow quite naturally, although I appreciate there're only so many new articles that can get on at a time...
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Posted Aug 15, 2002 by Smiley Ben
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| | I have no idea really: your guess is as good as mine. Though they don't usually take very long once they get to the pending stage. My guess would be that with the arrival of summer holidays, there might have been a bit of a surge of subbed entries.
Sorry not to be able to be more specific...
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Posted Aug 16, 2002 by Excelsior
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| | Well well, it looks like I guessed right, unless you put a word in! One follow-up question - should I now delete the unedited article although it's "not for review"? Or will that happen automatically? The two are so close there doesn't seem to be any point keeping both around...
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