Talk:Valen (Babylon 5)

message: changed "Minbari not born of Minbari" to "Minbari not born of Minbar" as it is seen my me Minbari = race, Minbar = planet/people's/culture's origin. In the same idea that We use Earth to discribe our planet and Terra/Terrans/Humans to discribe out culture  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mementh (talk • contribs) 22:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree.  See Talk:Minbari#a_Minbari_not_born_of_Minbari for more full discussion.  —Aladdin Sane (talk) 01:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The idea of avoiding spoilers is well established here. I don't see what would be gained by merging these articles - it's hardly a performance issue.
Besides, even before we found out who Valen really was (which took quite a while), Valen and Sinclair were both notable characters in the B5 universe. And there's a clear one-way demarcation point between the two of them - it's not just a case of an alias or an alter-ego that can be changed at will. Quack 688 14:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the merge note. It'd be impossible to avoid spoiling readers after a merge, and I see we don't have a photo. --Kizor 12:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction - now we do, but it's hidden. Thank you, autofellatio article, for making me aware of the possibility. --Kizor 12:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge to Sinclair

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:B5 valen.jpg

message: Wow, this is the worst of Wikipedia. Interesting question: "Valen", what is the main article at this rather common name? The member of the Norwegian parliament? American TV-producer? Taiwanese pop-star? No, it's some character only the biggest nerds have ever heard of, in a TV-series only a fraction of any population ever knew existed! In mainspace, with a hatnote- hidden away under a ton of templates! - pointing to one (to be kind) of the actually encyclopedia-worthy persons having Valen as their name. Congrats.
Remedy: move this article to Valen(character), and keep Valen as a disambig article, where the actually  existing people are listed first. Way down in the article, insert "fictional characters", with a link to the B5 character.
And before you all explode over my rudness: I'm a big fan of Babylon 5 ;-) Greswik (talk) 12:29, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Valen (character)