Talk:Laura Roslin

Skip to table of contents

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Laura Roslin article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1, 2: 30 days

This article was nominated for deletion on 23 December 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

Fictional characters

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fictional characters, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of fictional characters on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Fictional charactersWikipedia:WikiProject Fictional charactersTemplate:WikiProject Fictional charactersfictional character articles

Science Fiction Low‑importance

	Speculative fiction portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science fiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Science FictionWikipedia:WikiProject Science FictionTemplate:WikiProject Science Fictionscience fiction articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Television: Battlestar Galactica Low‑importance

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Battlestar Galactica task force.

Women

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.WomenWikipedia:WikiProject WomenTemplate:WikiProject WomenWikiProject Women articles

A fact from Laura Roslin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Battlestar Galactica character Laura Roslin has been compared to Machiavelli's Lucretia and Virgil's Dido?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Roslin.

Wikipedia

Stubby

Article for this major character is incredibly minimal and non informative compared to other major characters in the series. Seems odd. Article's Talk refete vandalism and editing wars; perhaps that explains this? Db919 (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:40, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that the Battlestar Galactica character Laura Roslin has been compared to Machiavelli's version of Lucretia and Virgil's account of Dido?
Source:
1. Blahuta, Jason P. (2008). "The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet". In T. Eberl, Jason (ed.). Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There.
2. Pache, Corinne (2010). ""So Say We All"—Reimagining Empire and the "Aeneid"". The Classical Outlook.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Des Corcoran
Comment: Note that this article is a brand new version, created almost 5 months after the prior article was WP:BLARed, in large part to resolve the issues that resulted in the BLAR. It includes a very small amount from the old version now as well, but would still pass the 5-fold requirement.

Converted from a redirect by Siroxo (talk). Self-nominated at 10:01, 30 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Laura Roslin; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

QPQ, article itself (date, size, copyvio spotcheck, neutrality), hook, all GTG. I do recommend addressing the content/structure issue I raised on talk, but it is not relevant to the DYK process. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:31, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the fictional biography? :)

It's great this was rewritten with real world analysis, but let's face it - most folks will want to k now the plot summary, too. Right now it is hidden in the article. A short section with a chronological plot summary is necessary, too. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:30, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I do agree it is necessary. I am not as equipped for that, but I will give it a shot sometime soon. —siro χ o 03:42, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly restoring some conent from before the rewrite might help? Or could copy content from a fandom wiki if the license is compatibile. Ex. https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Laura_Roslin Pro-tip: if it is too long, tell ChatGPT to summarize the plot summary to a lenght you think is appopriate... _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:25, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]