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I was once abducted. they inmpregnated me!!

ahhh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.18.5 (talk) 05:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] I made it disambig

I made this page into a disambiguation page, creating Alien (biology), Alien (law), Alien (computing), and Extraterrestrial life in popular culture. There are a frightening number of links to the straight Alien page.

Where am I supposed to link bog standard monsters-from-outa-space references? Extraterrestrial life reads like a SETI page and Extraterrestrial life in popular culture is little better than a stub. --zippedmartin 03:47, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

On a related note, there is an aliens disambig page as well, which seems a little redundant. I'd like to merge that content with this page and have aliens redirect here. Any objections or comments? Dan Granahan 15:55, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

  • I figured I'd just be bold and do it, so it's done. Feel free to discuss any concerns. Dan Granahan 18:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Aliens deserved a redirect :) I am actually resolving some links, most of the time I make them point to Extraterrestrial life in popular culture. Hashar 14:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Phsaw —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.109.104.221 (talk) 03:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies to Jiy

Sorry for reverting your edit; I didn't look closely enough and thought you were making the mistake I've seen a lot of people make, piping the target page of a disambig line so people don't see the actual title of the article being linked to. My bad! -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:48, 30 December 2005 (UTC) you suck dicks

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Aliens started the civil war when they came to earth in search for their long lost alien baby but the civils had kidnapped it therefore starting a civil war which last from 1860-1868 (8 years) after the war the aliens left kidnapping then killing elvis on the toilet!! this is how the civil war began and ended trust me i was there!!!

[edit] Odd Changes

Whatever happened to alien 3 and alien resurrection? (or should there be a separate series page for that? --Dch111 04:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I wondered about that, too. It looks like user Fritz wanted it to be very strict and limited to the words 'alien' and 'aliens' only. I'm not sure I agree with the severe edits, but Fritz has many contributions so I will accept that the edits were valid. Wikipeon 15:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Also, there is a film series box on both the Alien and Aliens pages, so users will be able to find the other films in the Alien franchise from those boxes. Wikipeon 15:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I added the Alien 3 and 4 movies on the page, and just realised they had previously been removed. I'll leave them on for now until someone removes them. However if I was looking up these movies and didn't know their exact names, I'd search for the term Alien first (ie and get this page for the correct name). Gazjo 04:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ALIENS

Bold text According to my own opinion Aliens are coming from parallel worlds !

Sorry bt i dont agree wit you Simon -xXx- haAliens are coool man cool i like bananas to ha ha !! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.213.21.218 (talk) 17:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aliens

Aliens are most frequent in Arizona.Many people say that before they got abducted,they drank Snapple.One of the abducted quotes,"The aliens were very decorative and organized.I want to go live with them someday.They said kjuhhkjsfdasfduhkasfdy a.k.a. I like ireland,arizona, and snapple. see they inplanted a interuniversal translating device in my head along with a uncontrolled farting machine.The whole ride they were teasing me that I smelt too much like a giant turd."

Don't talk about aliens that way! Not all of them are monsters!Asteroidz R not planetz 21:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed links to lists

I removed links to the articles List of extraterrestrials in fiction and List of alien films as this is a disambiguation page and those lists refer to one meaning of alien. The appropriate place for those links would be the article Extraterrestrial life in popular culture. -Acjelen 22:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)how do you know?

[edit] Vandalism revert

Reverted some vandalism 128.143.255.137 (talk) 02:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IP edit block

Is it possible for someone to lock this article? I've seen that block take effect on another article, can't remember which one. But the point is whenever I come to this article, both the article and discussion is usually vandalised/ill-used by people who don't have accounts. So I highly recommend this. Who agrees? -- Harish - 04:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Slight reformat

I hope nobody minds that I did just a little reformatting on the first section. Most of the page looks so good, but the first section was a little messier. Following the guidelines on the WP disambiguation pages, I trimmed to one link per entry, put it at the beginning of the entry, reduced descriptions, and took off the closing punctuation. --AnnaFrance (talk) 00:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aliens redirect

I think that Aliens should probably redirect to Aliens (film). I will post this on the talk page for the other article as well in order to see all opinions. Mynameisnotpj (talk) 02:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I think there are too many things associated with the term "Alien", and we cannot guarantee that the average reader typing in "Aliens" isn't looking for the "real thing" (just in pluralized form), and not the film. There wouldn't be a point to redirecting "Aliens" to the film page, you might as well rename the article altogether.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:21, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Yes it is fine as it is. Anyone looking for the film can find it almost instantly on this page, anyone looking for something else could, potentially, get confused. Not the ideal outcome for disambiguation. As it stands aliens film does redirect there which will catch most people searching for the film. (Emperor (talk) 00:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC))
I agree that we should not do a redirect. I have been fixing the pages that link to this dab page and can verify the point that at least as many wikilinks are looking for something other than the film series. --AnnaFrance (talk) 14:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of red links

I just removed 3 entries whose only relevant link was red. In case anyone disagrees with any part of this, here are the removed entries:

--AnnaFrance (talk) 14:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Thers not many facts here about aliens!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.3.132 (talk) 06:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirected Extraterrestrial life in popular culture

I did this because Extraterrestrial life in popular culture is just a redirect to Fictional extraterrestrials. Also, it didn't seem to belong in the Science and Engineering section, so I moved it to Film and Television. Oh, and finally, I took the extra indent off Unidentified flying object.

If I have made a mistake with any of this, just change it back. --AnnaFrance (talk) 04:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)