Talk:Memory Alpha

Memory Alpha is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 1, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
February 14, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
September 5, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
October 18, 2006	Articles for deletion	Kept
March 4, 2007	Articles for deletion	Kept
Current status: Former featured article

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Template

To make a link to memory alpha from an article (one Star-Trek related), you can use:

{{tl|memoryalpha}} or {{tl|memoryalpha article}}.

Just thought I'd include that info here for those who might use it ;) --ColdFeet 02:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Self-reference

Wikipedia should not contain unnecessary self-references, but I can't find a suitable alternative sentence to replace the reference to Wikipedia. Maybe it should just be removed, including the Wikia and mediaWiki stuff, as the only reason that that is mentioned is that they are common to Wikipedia. WP Articles on other wikis usually mention the software used, but not the hosting organisation. — PhilHibbs | talk 11:08, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the self-reference. I'm not entirely happy with the paragraph, and I had a better one, but it was too long and dominated the article with what was in effect a self-reference with the serial numbers filed off. I think the paragraph should be deleted rather than improved by expansion. — PhilHibbs | talk 14:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Birthday

When was MA actualy started (or is Nov 2004 the most accurate that people can remeber), the Mediawiki installation thinks November 22. --ElvisThePrince 07:13, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was 2003, actually. I lost my e-mail history in early 2004, so I can't really pinpoint the day MA started. 22 November 2003 is apparently the day the MediaWiki installation went online, but a few days before that, MA existed briefly as a TikiWiki project. Although the latter version never went public. The 22nd of November seems to be the real birthday of the current Memory Alpha. If you're really interested in Memory Alpha history, check out [1] and [2]. The first one is me doing some preliminary brainstorming. It's also where I found out that Dan had a similar plan. The second link is the first time Memory Alpha was shown to the 'outside world'. -- Harry 17:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"current issues"

The "current issues" section reads like a lot of original research. Who has identified these as issues? Wikipedia editors? That's OR. Someone else? Needs a cite for its conclusions.Night Gyr 02:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Felt more like big time POV axe grinding to me. Take a look at the phrase, "excessive use of legalese". Is there an appropriate amount of the use of legalese that we can all reference and quantify? I personally have no serious feelings about Memory Alpha's policies one way or another, but I'm pretty sure they don't need to be debated here at WP. The issues should be stated, the arguments pro and con given, then move on. The WP article does not and should not be a persuasive one toward a Preferred side. -- Bill 21:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:List of largest wikis

The article List of largest wikis was listed for deletion about a week ago. It has been moved to the Wikipedia namespace. I've replaced the wikilink with an external link so that mirrored copies of this article will still link correctly. --Tony Sidaway 19:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charlotte Observer reference

I found a link to the Charlotte Obsever article on their website. Unfortunately, it looks like the article is no longer available, but it's viewable via the Google cache of it. Is that inappropriate to document it that way? Here's the link, let me know and I will add it or not [[3]]. --Milo H Minderbinder 13:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Broken link to the Memory Alpha site

This should be the correct URL: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Main_Page

The URL that is currently given leads to the Memory Alpha site but it has a strange bug where the page continuously reloads.

Memory Alfa

Added Memory Alfa as an external link, as I was unsure where to put it in the article. Zidel333 01:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Memory Beta

what is it? is it an offshoot from alpha? 86.148.5.106 (talk) 19:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

its a wiki for licensed Star Trek works. I'm not sure what that means. I just saw that stated at the bottom of | this article on memory alpha. Also this article [4] --88.149.115.203 (talk) 05:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It means it covers Star Trek books, video games, etc., treating them as if they are canon. Memory Alpha doesn't; it only covers them as if they were fiction. Memory Beta wasn't originally an offshoot of Memory Alpha, (it was originally a different wiki all together) but it tends to function as one now. Oddly enough, you can't copy things from Memory Alpha to Memory Beta, as they have different copyright licenses.

Hope that helps.
(Note that anything said here could be added to the article with proper citations)
-- trlkly 05:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redundancy

If Memory Alpha is the one-stop wiki for all things Star Trek, then why have articles with plot summaries of individual Enterprise episodes on Wikipedia? After all, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. --38.100.221.66 (talk) 11:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]