Talk:Cylon War

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[edit] The Thousand Yahren War

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The Thousand Yahren War (aka The Thousand Year War and The Great Cylon Conflict) was a fictitious intergalactic war set before the events in the original 1978 movie Battlestar Galactica.

It appears to be specific to this movie (actually a TV movie, scoring 5.8 out of 10 at IMDb, and of which the representative "user comment" starts "Not as bad as its reputation"). But it's not even in the movie (or so I read); it's just a plot device. Fancruft. -- Hoary 06:36, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)

• Disagree--Maybe I should mention just the events that led to the movie, not the events in the movie itself. The war is the premise behind the movie anyway. Hiphats 06:46, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Apparently also a 70s TV show and 2003 remake. Cylon (Battlestar Galactica), The Destruction of the Twelve Colonies, and Gaius Baltar all link to it. Let is stay. dbenbenn | talk 06:47, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Since Wikipedia allows a large amount of articles related to Star Trek (I should know) as well as Doctor Who and other franchises, I think this is worthwhile keeping as a major component of BSG. The new series is generating a lot of interest in the old series, so there is some added notability there, too. But this does need some expanding. 23skidoo 07:22, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - The page is just as valid as the Battlestar Galactica article itself. -- Judson 09:43, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• It hurts to say this, but keep. If the pain is too much, merge and keep as a redirect - David Gerard 16:42, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious keep. --Centauri 23:04, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. "Keep" would be most consistent with the precedents we have established towards this type of trivia, which is that the threshold that must be satisfied by any popular culture topic is extremely low. However, I can't bring myself to vote for keeping it. --BM 00:13, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, precedent already set with Star Trek and other televsion and film show episodes. Article appears to have had a lot of work put into it. The Thousand Yahren War was a major early incident in BG itself. Megan1967 01:41, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• The Thousand Yahren War was the name of the conflict between human beings and an army of evil cyborgs intent upon flooding Wikipedia with subtrivial fancruft. Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 09:27, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep given precedents. --JuntungWu 17:21, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep considering the notoriety of Battlestar Galactica and the importance of this war in the Galactica universe. -- ckape (talk) 03:49, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: "Notoriety"? For what? I haven't seen it, so don't know; but to me its IMDb rating of 5.8 suggests utter mediocrity rather than notoriety. -- Hoary 04:05, 2005 Jan 17 (UTC)

• From my understanding it's one of the best known science fiction shows from that era, although it lags behind Star Trek and Dr. Who. -- ckape (talk) 05:09, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect to the relevant article (probably Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)). -Sean Curtin 07:24, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, only because it's significant to the series' premise. Wyss 05:38, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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