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Interstellar Alliance usage

Where outside Babylon 5 is the term used? Radagast83 05:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Generic term

see Galactic Empire. Galactic Empire is MOSTLY used to refer to Star Wars, but it also a generic term for a theoretical government type. I have no prob with the B5 info, but it should include a definition of the generic term. There are "interstellar alliances" all thru sci fi, even if most do not use it as a name. Zotel - the Stub Maker 23:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

The first 100 results of Interstellar Alliance on Google are all in reference to Babylon 5's IA. Outside of the Galactic empire link here, every single article on Wikipedia that links to this page is Babylon 5 related. There needs to be other references to civilizations in other works to be refered to as an "Interstellar Alliance." Where is it refered to as a generic term? Calling Galactic Empires an IA without it directly ever being referenced to it in primary or secondary sources is Original Research. Other examples are necessary to keep the definition as is (as a "generic" term). If there are no cases for other books or shows with civilizations refered to as IAs then it needs to revert back to being a Babylon 5 article. For the moment I'm tagging it with a reference tag. Radagast83 00:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Fine, please source your b-5 info. Zotel - the Stub Maker 00:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Please check the following: Wikipedia:Citing sources, Wikipedia:Civility. Properly source the article. Placing links in the edit summary is NOT proper sourcing. One was a review by a customer, another seemed to be broken. The novel could work, but the amazon link is not a proper place to source from. Be civil. I am disamgiguating the Babylon 5 article to it's own and changing all the articles that link here to there. Have a nice time on wikipedia. Radagast83 01:03, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

add sources -

Add sources - http://www.ebookmall.com/ebooks/jarrod-tan-and-the-crimson-horde-lane-ebooks.htm http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/BookStoreSearchResults~SearchType~bis~SearchBisacCode~FIC009000-2~page~15.aspx http://www.spacetrace.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=45718&sid=092f7cef33d52ba6de78f71a630a9e0b http://s15.invisionfree.com/AllianceofWorlds/index.php?act=idx http://www.orionsarm.com/historical/Penglai_Empire.html I will NOT check civility, you brought up sourcing. It is more than appropriate for you to provide it too. Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

You removed the fact and unreferenced tags without referencing the information and (quite obviously) at the same time added the tags to the other text to "spite" the other text that appeared on the screen. Please do NOT remove the tag again until the page has been properly sourced. Radagast83 01:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Sources WERE added, just not in the format you liked, see wikipedia "assume good faith" You pointed out a problem with my portion, so I did the same for you Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

You actually "pointed it out" by removing the tags I had put up. I'm not offended in anyway personally. This article, regardless of what you may think, still needs a lot of cleanup. The links need to be put into some sort of reference context into the article. If you're currently doing that fine. But don't remove the tag until it's done. You should assume some goof faith on my part by the tags I've put onto the page. A cleanup tag is in no way an insult and actually can bring a great deal of help from other wikipedians to this article to contribute to. Your reluctance to keep this tag up is worrisome to say the least. And why this has already been "archived" is beyond me. Radagast83 02:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)