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[edit] Discussion Forum

I have created a discussion forum page to discuss policy question within the project, to distinguish such from wikicode/content issues for this single page. Avt tor 22:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I have moved the previous topics, all of which were policy issues, to the discussion forum. Avt tor 22:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This doesn't seem like the standard usage, based on the WikiProjects with which I've dealt before (Physics, for example), but OK. Also, because the discussion forum lives at Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Discussion Forum and not the corresponding Talk page, the "Post a comment" link does not work in the expected manner. Anville 21:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I've seen it done both ways. The more established projects usually have one or more discussion pages. There is a difference between project discussions, about policy on other groups of pages, and just fixing up a particular page. It makes more sense to me to split things up, (i.e. it confused me to combine things), but it's up to the (mainly silent) majority. Avt tor 23:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I suppose I'm just used to WikiProjects where the content of the project page is basically set (or at least the format solidly determined) and most of the questions have to do with articles in the project domain. But hey, whatever works! Anville 00:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I have moved the "science fiction studies" discussion to the project discussion page. Avt tor 18:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Art

I think we should have an article on science fiction cover art or possibly science fiction art (instead of the surrent redirect to a list). There are a number of books and collections of cover art, the form itself is distinct from other genrees, and includes influences on SF film design. There are a number of artists whose work is actively collected, such as Chris Foss; others such as Carlo Rambaldi could do with a serious expansion. A generic art article would pull in H. R. Giger, who is obviously very influential through the cultural impact of Alien. What do people think? Guy (Help!) 12:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Sub-project: Hugo and Nebula Award Winners

I would like to suggest a sub-project for this WikiProject, basically another WikiProject that is part of the larger WikiProject Science Fiction (I've seen this done before with things like WikiProject Novels).

The Project I would like to propose - and I fully intend to participate heavily, believe me - is one to increase and improve our coverage of authors and stories that have won the Hugo or Nebula Awards, two of the most notable and necognized and (especially in the case of the Hugos) prestigious awards in the SF/fantasy community and industry. I've done a search, and did not turn anything up; apparently, there's never been a WP covering either Hugo winners OR Nebula winners. The proposed project would be titled WikiProject Hugo and Nebula Award Winners.

I plan to create a page for the WP, but don't know either of the following:

  • 1.)How to list it as a sub-project of this one.
  • 2.)How to create the "This article is part of WikiProject Hugo and Nebula Award Winners..." template for the talk page.

Any help would be much appreciated! ^_^ Runa27 00:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a fairly small WikiProject... it may not be productive to create a separate project just for Hugo and Nebula awards, especially because the editors who are interested in that will almost totally overlap with WP:SF participants. In my opinion, it would be best to take whatever editing projects will require collaboration, and discuss them here (and add the project banner to whatever articles don't have it already). Very narrow WikiProjects often go inactive very quickly.--ragesoss 00:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
You misunderstand; this would not be a "seperate" project. It would be a sub-project, PART of this one. Though maybe it is more common to refer to these as "task forces" or something? There's one for short stories under WikiProject Novels, I think. As for "small", I'm not sure you really have an idea how few Hugo and Nebula winning stories and authors (especially the former) are actually covered here. The Hugos in particular have been going since the 1940s, and most of the stories which have won one do not seem to have coverage, or are only stubs. Also, the Nebulas and Hugos both are being still awarded, meaning dozens of new articles per year to keep up; it's a bigger project than you might think! ;)
Also, I suppose opening it up to "Science Fiction Awards" instead of just Hugos and Nebulas (which would also cover at least the Saturn Awards, as well as a few other international SF awards, and probably at least one award at Sundance - best Science-based film or something like that, I forget exactly what they call it) would expand it considerably as well. It's just that I figured it would be a good idea to start with the Hugos and Nebulas, since they seem to be less-covered, and it's easy to argue that a story that wins a Hugo or Nebula is notable just on that alone, because of how notable the awards themselves are. Also, many authors who have won one or both awards have only stub or Start class articles, even if they're really notable (just look at Robert Silverberg, for instance), and this is in large part what I was trying to fix, along with covering the most notable stories in SF literature, many of which haven't gotten good coverage on WP yet. Runa27 21:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
By small, I mean in terms of editors, not articles. This project itself is small, so I don't see an even smaller subgroup as likely to be productive. That said, it's no big deal one way or the other. If you're that gung-ho about it, go for it.--ragesoss 23:57, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Change sub-project idea to more general "Science Fiction Award Winners Task Force?"

Seeing as there is a whole category for "Science fiction awards", and this project's narrowness has been brought up as food for thought (although, considering Firefly has its own WikiProject, I'm not sure this is really, comparitively speaking, what I'd call "narrow" in focus :P), how about just a sub-project or task force to cover winners of prominent SF awards including the Hugos and Nebulas? Looking at the for SF awards, that would considerably broaden the subproject's focus. Runa27 23:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

The further you go down that road the deeper a pit you dig for yourself and your collaborators. (I've been trying to do something for Hugo-winning fanzines and fan-editors when I can). When you start taking in the Tiptrees and whatever the libertarians call their SF award and the two awards the Carl Brandon Society gives... and... and... and.... The mind boggles (even the slannish, fannish mind). --Orange Mike 23:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm. True. Really, the Nebulas and Hugos are probably enough, especially with the backlog of uncovered or barely-covered stories and authors (besides, I'm not as interested in the Saturn Awards or Sundance), and the fact that they're still being awarded. I think in the next few days (or so; I have work and classes, so I don't know how quickly I can get it set up) I'll just start it (as Hugo and Nebula-centered), and see where it goes from there. I still haven't got an answer on how to mark it as a subproject or create the "WikiProject [insert name here]" type talk page template thing though. Is there a specific page somewhere that addresses this? I've never been able to find it... In any case, I went ahead and started the project page, though I don't think it's 100% "proper format" yet. :P Plus, there's the matter of the template and such.Runa27 23:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm relatively new at Wikipedia, but i'd going to give this a shot. I'm starting with the Hugo winning Novellas which have no page... and we'll see where it goes.--JW Bjerk (talk) 17:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Todo for those interested in award sub-project - Want to help?

  1. Nebula and Hugo awards are obviously the biggest names around. As such, I think it warranted to make special note when winners and nominees for the one are also winners of the other award. I've correlated and marked all the Best Novel recipients (See: Hugo Award for Best Novel & Hugo Award for Best Novel), but the novellas, short stories, etc have yet to be done.
  2. All or most of the Nebula Best Novel winners have a substituted succession infobox at the bottom that links 'em to the next and prior winner. That's going to be a bear to maintain, so I created a template with the substituted code at Template:Nebula/Best Novel. Now we need to go through and replace the substituted template with the maintainable one. This has been done for only the two most recent reward recipients.
  3. Only two of the Hugo Best Novel award winners are marked with their new template: Template:Hugo/Best Novel, and we're starting from scratch on those.

Many thanks for any help rendered. MrZaiustalk 13:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Can someone explain to a wikipedia noob how to use this template?--JW Bjerk (talk) 07:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help with links

Hi there. I created a page for the movie "The Man From Planet X" (which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Planet_X) but it's not showing up on search pages etc. Anyone able to help? Callum J. Stewart 10:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

At Special:Whatlinkshere/The_Man_from_Planet_X, you can see that four pages already link there, although only two are in normal article namespace. Wouldn't hurt to add mention of it and links to it from any actors, screenwriters, or directors that made the film & already have articles of their own. Even as it stands, however, it'll show up on google et al in a couple of days/weeks/months. MrZaiustalk 14:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks, Mr. Zaius. "The human edits Wikipedia like an ape!" "Yeah, well, human see human do..." Callum J. Stewart 14:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Science Fiction

Am working on the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australian_literature focusing on Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, so have joined here to try and improve the links, tags, info boxes and categories that are related to this Project for such articles as Authors, Novels, Awards & Conventions etc. Boylo 02:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyberpunk

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[edit] Dispute Resolution Procedure REQUEST FOR COMMENT for article "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

As per Wikipedia procedure for dispute resolution I am asking any and all members of this project to add input on a dispute over deletion of Taglines for this film, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2005. The original tagline "A Different Set of Jaws" is also listed as one of the most memorable taglines in history along with others. I also have at least one other reference source, an article on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Cultural Performance" with mention on the cultural impact of the tagline "Don't Dream It, Be It." Input is needed to resolve a current "Edit War" where an Editor keeps deleting without adding a better reason than he "Does not believe they are notable" with no further reference to back up the assertion. Thank you. --Amadscientist 23:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for a book

This one has an alien species which "seeds" our planet with its plant/animal life. The US army sent in scientists to stop this invasion and that one of the lifeforms resembles a small human the size of an ant. The scientists predicted that the aliens are terraforrming Earth with their wildlife/plantlife before actually "conquering" our planet. Please help--SGCommand (talk • contribs) 16:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry, I found the book now--SGCommand (talk • contribs) 12:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request feedback on guidelines

I would like to have the feedback of active wikiproject members on the following. Wikipedia has a number of guidelines on articles about fiction, predominantly WP:FICT and WP:WAF. These guidelines have been rewritten some time ago, but this appears to have been done without substantial input from editors who write about fiction.

Guidelines on Wikipedia are supposed to be a description of common practice. At present, however, these guidelines call for the removal of most material that does not include real-world information, which could be read as to include most articles about fictional characters, locations and concepts, such as those from science fiction books and series.

This does not reflect actual practice, because Wikipedia has thousands of such articles. Now there's no need for alarm, because to my knowledge, nobody is actually deleting any of this. However, it would be prudent to reword and update the aforementioned guidelines to accurately reflect how, and on which aspects, articles on fiction are written.

Please feel free to update the guidelines as needed, or direct your feedback to their respective talk pages. >Radiant< 10:44, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletions (October 2007)

Resolved
  • Unrealized reality (via WP:PROD on 2007-10-01) Redirected→Farscape terminology

[edit] Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

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[edit] Attack on SF-fandom-related articles

User:GlassFET has tagged articles on a number of SF cons, TAFF winners, fanzines, etc. as not notable; indeed, his edit note on the article for ATom explicitly says that fans are inherently not notable. Be warned, and monitor any articles about fandom and fanzines that you don't want to see deleted. --Orange Mike 01:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beyond Fantasy Fiction featured article candidate

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I've nominated Beyond Fantasy Fiction for featured article status; the nomination is here. If you are interested in reviewing the article, please take a look at it (and of course read the instructions on how to review, which are at the top of the candidates page). I'm not just looking for people to support it -- useful critical comments would be great.

I plan to nominate a couple more magazine articles over the next month or two, so if this isn't the right place to post this note, let me know where would be a good place to notify other sf-focused editors. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk) 22:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfC

Hey everyone, there is a Request for Comment going on for the sci fi film Slither (2006 film). If anyone is able, please weigh in.--Cúchullain t/c 07:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Why? It's a bad film, the issue is mostly resolved already, and I joined this project to talk about science fiction, not crap movies and "sci fi"! --Orange Mike 15:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Whether it's a bad film or not (it's not) is irrelevant. Doczilla 22:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Good for you, but the film is within the scope of this project. I notified all the relevant projects. If you don't want to contribute, don't.--Cúchullain t/c 20:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Journal Entries -- SF Erotica

(Sorry if this is the wrong place: I couldn't tell if the forum was still monitored.) I'm trying to find reliable sources to back up the notability of Elf Sternberg, who's undergoing a second AfD at the moment. Since he writes SF Erotica (and pretty darned well, IMHO) and publishes only on the web, WP:RSs are thin on the ground. If you can suggest any places to look that the article hasn't already identified, I'd be quite grateful. Thanks.--SarekOfVulcan 20:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Hugo and Nebula Award Winners

It was brought up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hugo and Nebula Award Winners that that relatively inactive WP might be merged into this one and thereby made somewhat more effective, eliminating considerable overlap in templates, category maintenance, etc. Thoughts? Might have been better thought out as a workgroup within this WP than not. Regardless, anyone interested in helping? Got a fair bit of template populating left to do, as well, for the award winning novels. MrZaiustalk 16:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Merge the inactive project. Doczilla 22:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sandworm (Dune) needs cites

The article Sandworm (Dune) has been tagged as "This article does not cite any references or sources" since April 2007. -- 201.19.77.39 11:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speculative fiction workshop template

Hello. I created a template for workshops and writing circles that specialize in science fiction and fantasy here. It looks like that falls into this project's purview. Does this belong here, or am I crazy? --GoodDamon 17:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

The term speculative fiction is an umbrella that covers science fiction, fantasy, and more, as you must know, so it's certainly relevant. Doczilla 22:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dyson Sphere GA push

I recently nominated Dyson Sphere for GA status, and it was failed; however, it's close, and with some help we can get it there. In particular, the reviewers left suggestions on a few specific issues:

  1. An infobox would be nice; I don't know which one would be most appropriate, but someone here might.
  2. Needs additional copyediting (esp. per weasel words, redundancies)
  3. Needs additional sources

Thanks for your help. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles needing rescue

There was just a barely-avoided AFD on Pregnancy in science fiction. The article is in bad shape -- just a terribly-sourced bibliography of works relating in some way to fertility, infertility, reproduction, pregnancy. I've proposed some changes on Talk:Pregnancy in science fiction, and am soliciting here for other folks to come help out on that.

It also makes me think that we need in the project section a "rescue section" for articles that are meritorious in concept but so bad they are at-risk of deletion or other problems. Thoughts? --17:07, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos of L. Ron Hubbard?

I figured the members of this project might be the best people to know if there are any public domain photos of L. Ron Hubbard out there. So far, the only photos any of us can find are ones which are under the copyright of the Church of Scientology, and we would all prefer to use public domain photos wherever possible. If any of the members of this project know of any such photos, I would be very grateful to be informed of how to get them. Thank you. John Carter 14:35, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Best place to ask would be in some of the science fiction fan Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. All Knowledge Is Contained In Fanzines!--Orange Mike 15:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] redundant categories

The categories Category:Science fiction short story collections by Harlan Ellison and Category:Fantasy short story collections by Harlan Ellison only had a few items in them so I moved them to more general Category:Short story collections by Harlan Ellison (which is in no danger of overpopulation as he appears to be putting out less than a book a decade these days.) If anyone objects or would rather have everything at SF short story collections then please discuss. Otherwise I plan on taking the two categories to CfD in a couple of weeks. Sbacle 18:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do; the distinction was silly anyway. --Orange Mike 19:20, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Have at it. Doczilla 22:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Bootstrapping (science fiction)

Bootstrapping (science fiction) (via WP:PROD) currently a bit more than a dictionary definition

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 11:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I support the deletion. --Orange Mike 13:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blade Runner

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[edit] Cascade Point

On Timothy Zahn's page, he supposedly won a Hugo award in 1984 for his novella Cascade Point, but there is no article in it. Is this where I request an article be creeated? Heavy Breather (talk) 05:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

You can certainly request an article, but there's no reason for you not to create it yourself. Just click on the link in your post above and start typing. It would be best to give some reasons in the article why an article about that novella is notable, such as the award.
You might also consider simply expanding the material on Zahn's page to cover the novella in more detail. There's no necessity to have a separate article if the material can be adequately covered in a parent article. Mike Christie (talk) 12:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock up for deletion

Someone's got it in for Jerry, Catherine and Una. The discussion is here [1] Nick mallory (talk) 09:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of Stories

Is there a guideline for classifying stories? For example, the Charles Stross series, "The Merchant Princes" is listed as being fantasy, but after reading the fourth book, there is not one element in the series that would qualify it for being fantasy. There are no fantastical creates. There is no magical or occult activity of any kind. All of the parallel universes involved appear to have the same physical laws. The process of world-walking now appears to have a scientific basis. So how, exactly is it fantasy? Dfmclean (talk) 13:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PROD of The Excalibur Alternative

The Excalibur Alternative has been PRODded. I've removed the PROD, as I believe the article can be improved, and notability asserted. It will probably go to AFD instead. I've never worked on novel or SF pages before, so any assistance in improving the page would be appreciated. If notabilty can't be asserted by outside sources, then I have no problem with it being deleted. Thanks. - BillCJ (talk) 01:39, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I found and added a review by Publishers Weekly. I'm looking for more. --Kweeket Talk 02:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Futuristic clothing

Would anyone be interested in improving my stub article for futuristic clothing? It's pretty poor at the moment, but I feel that "futuristic" clothing is a notable subject, even for its status as a retro-futurist cliche alone, that might well eventually make a good sub-section within a wider clothing in science fiction article. -- The Anome (talk) 10:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is a reliable source for a work of fiction?

Some SF articles, about a fictional character for instance, have a request for references or sources. How to deal with this? If a character only is mentioned in a single book or television show, that is all the sources you need, I suppose? But how can you link to that as a source? Calamarain (talk) 08:15, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

For a character in a book, cite page number in the edition you reference, just like any other book. There is no obligation to provide an online source for a citation. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [2]. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 19:38, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Russian science fiction

Or Russian fantasy and science fiction. I would like to request this article. The existence of this rich genre is barely mentioned in Russian literature; the world Russia is not mentioned in either Science fiction or Fantasy articles, which just show enormous gaps/biases in their coverage. Note categories: Category:Russian science fiction and Category:Soviet science fiction - they are in dire need of a parent article; Social_science_fiction#The_genre_in_the_Eastern_Bloc contains some useful material. Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:11, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

If there are some articles on this topic on the Russian-language wiki (or perhaps antoher language), then we might be able to have them translated here as a start. - BillCJ (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I have begun, though it can take months to complete it even cursorily.--Ameshavkin (talk) 14:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stepping back in time

The Academic Journals wikiproject is collaborating on Electrical Experimenter this week, and it would be good if some domain experts and enthusiasts could either assist or simply mention factoids on the talk page. If anyone has physical copies of this magazine that are in the public domain, it would be great if you could scan a few pages, upload them to Commons at commons:Category:Electrical Experimenter, and note the availability on our "Transcription" page. Cheers, John Vandenberg (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 10:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Category: Speculative fiction novels by writers of color

Help! I created this category as a newbie just because it was glaringly clear that this needed to be created. I didn't know about this project and its guidelines. I'm still trying to learn what is going on here. Anywho, I think that maybe this category should to be changed to "Science fiction by writers of color" since it seems that you are using "Science fiction" as an umbrella term to include "Speculative fiction". (And also "Walter Mosley's Futureland should be here, but because it is a collection of short stories it is being left out.) I don't know how to do that without going into every book. Is there a better way to do this? --Booksellergirl (talk) 21:38, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Also the same needs to be done to "Speculative fiction writers of color". I think it should be "Science fiction writers of color" --Booksellergirl (talk) 21:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
One option would be to nominate them for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. I've never done this myself but there are instructions on the page so you should be able to do it. Otherwise you might ask on the talk page there and someone with experience in category renaming should stop by and help you. Best of luck. Stardust8212 20:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll give it a try -Booksellergirl (talk) 14:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Science Fiction Television

Hello all. I recently obtained the book Science Fiction Television([3]) from my University Library in order to work on some SciFi related articles. I just thought I'd let the members of this wikiproject know that I'd be willing to scan pages out of the book for use in improving relevant Wikipedia articles so please let me know if you would like me to look up what the book has on your favorite SF TV show, the book covers through 2004. There is a limited preview of the book available on Google Books([4]) but not every page is viewable so if you already know what pages you want then let me know. I have the book until May 20th. Stardust8212 23:43, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PROD

User:Orangemike marked an article I created with a PROD tag. The article is Psychic probe, and I agree that as is, it could be deleted. Does anyone have a last minute bit of encyclopedic knowledge to save the article? —ScouterSig 15:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A thought about how to better deal with some fictional articles

Please see here.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FAR

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[edit] Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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[edit] Dune (novel)

This article is up for GA, but we are having trouble finding review material. Help is needed. Wrad (talk) 20:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Call for Help with Primer (film)

Hello. I'm quite new to this, so apologies if I'm posting on the wrong page. I've updated the article for the film Primer, but could use a second opinion. I think the article is reasonably well written, but could use some extra info and could possibly be restructured. Any input would be much appreciated. I've also posted this on the films project page. JMalky (talk) 10:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of predictions

Is there anywhere an article or series of articles listing various predictions about the future in SF literature, perhaps with a comparison with what actually happened? If not, perhaps it would be useful to create one.

I was prompted to think of this having read a description of something like television in H G Wells' The Sleeper Awakes. --rossb (talk) 22:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fancy something different?

Hi everybody, I've written an article called Introduction to genetics, which tries to explain the important concepts in DNA, genes and so on in an absolutely non-technical way. I was wondering if any people with no background in science would have time to go through this article and find the places where it isn't quite clear enough or fails to explain things properly. Comments on its talkpage please. Tim Vickers (talk) 20:13, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notice Board page and Science Fiction Portal

I have just recently joined this project as I've been reading science fiction since I was ten, and thought it was about time I started contributing. I canna seem to find a place which lists the main todo' lists. The todo list on the main page is virtually useless. So i'm planning to create a notice board page, if notbody has any problems/objects. Also there is no portal for science fiction. There should be though. When you search for the portal for science fiction, the closest you get is a speculative fiction, and when you click on Science Fiction, you get a category list. Come on, we are the guys/girls who read and imagine what the future is going to be, so surely we can do better than than. So what I plan to do,

  • Create a notice board for Science Fiction similar to this in design, so we can have a place to put in a full todo list.
  • Start a Science Fiction portal page, say in a couple of months, so we can have it list in here eventually where is should be.

scope_creep (talk) 00:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

By all means, go for it. One of the first big projects I did on Wikipedia was to totally revamp a portal; it's a rewarding project, and one that you can dive right into. I would start with the portal, since maintaining a noticeboard can be frustrating if there isn't much reaction to it (which might be the case with a low-activity project such as this).