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[edit] Paranormal abilities
"Paranormal abilities such as mind-reading, mind control, mental telepathy, telekinesis, and self-teleportation." I was curious as to what the implied distinction was between "mind-reading" and "mental telepathy," so I clicked the links. "Mind-reading" links to a page about stage magic. It seems inappropriate here. Also, "mental telepathy" is redundant; is there any other kind of telepathy? And the prefix in "self-teleportation" is unnecessary, as any form of teleportation should qualify as a paranormal ability. WaxTadpole (talk) 20:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- All good points; fixed. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Along these lines, the article begins by saying "Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as... paranormal abilities." The article does go on to expand on some of these paranormal aspects, including telekinesis, mind control, and others. Wouldn't this fall under the umbrella of "supernatural"? Kansan (talk) 22:24, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Those are two different things. Para = alongside, super = above. Paranormal is something that we expect to explain sometime, supernormal remains beyond our understanding. Cheers, Greenodd (talk) 08:51, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Template
I just massively revamped the Template:Science fiction, my largest effort at editing a somewhat well known page on WP. (most of my edits are to less trafficked pages). I have not begun to link it to all the articles it now contains. I do welcome feedback, and I will strive to not "own" this new version. If people feel some reverts are needed, I would understand (ouch!), but i would appreciate discussion at the template talk page, where i started the discussion a few days ago. at least one editor did encourage me to go forward, though they were not aware of exactly what i had planned. significant changes: no more links to categories (except 1, which i am planning to turn into a list, that being SF publishers), many links to smaller, less notable articles removed, and i added "works" and "people".This was fun, hope it shows.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 09:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Humanoid Computers?
That is a new one to me. Apparently sourced to an Orson Scott Card book... Puddytang (talk) 03:01, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Archiving
...was royally screwed up. I've restored several threads and adjusted the archive template to work correctly now. However, these threads have not been recovered. If they are important to the editors here, you may restore them to this page and let the bot archive for you.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 02:54, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure if you're saying they're not in any archives at all as it stands, but if so I suggest just pasting them into the most recent archive, just for the sake of preserving the history. 24.190.183.52 (talk) 03:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- They are not in there at all; paste them here if you like and the bot will archive in chrono order. There will need to be minor cleanup by removing hyphens.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 03:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've done it manually. 24.190.183.52 (talk) 09:26, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Asimov
In the "Hard SF" subsection of the "Subgenres" section, should Asimov not be mentioned alongside the "working scientists" category, similar to Benford et al.? After all, while doubtlessly more prominent as an author, he was a biochemist, and held tenure at Boston University, for several years in a teaching capacity. FungusFromYuggoth (talk) 21:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
