Talk:Unobtanium

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 Definition A supposed element created by colfrission with phlogiston while suspended in the ether, according to undiscovered alchemical documents supposedly in a cave in France. [d] [e]
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I wanted to buy some for a lab experiment - where can I purchase it? :-) J. Noel Chiappa 15:29, 21 April 2008 (CDT)

it's by in vitation only at the witches' ball. You have to return your regrets-oonly card (and it's indeed only regrets) Richard Jensen 15:40, 21 April 2008 (CDT)
I heard the term unobtanium in the movie "The Core" yesterday. Is that where you got it? David E. Volk 15:39, 20 May 2008 (CDT)
Nah, it's been around forever. J. Noel Chiappa 15:46, 20 May 2008 (CDT)


Real article?

So, is this going to be a real article, deserving of subpagination, or just a testing page for templates? David E. Volk 14:16, 25 May 2008 (CDT)

it's a test so it should have subpages to test as well. preferably subpages that don't work too well. :) Richard Jensen 15:22, 25 May 2008 (CDT)

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Test articles like this are perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned. But we should have a notice at the top of the page saying that it is in fact a test article. When testing is finished, we can move it to CZ:Cold Storage for nostalgic purposes.  :-) --Larry Sanger 08:59, 2 June 2008 (CDT)

Many reference works have had fictitious entries, even though they would not be in line with the reference purpose. I would vote in favour of keeping them, but I also understand that some sort of (preferably subtle, to keep the fun going) labeling could be helpful. One option to cope with that would be to replace intrawiki links on fictitious pages by calls to a template {{Fictitious}} that leads readers to a page that displays something of the sort
You have followed a link from a fictitious entry. We hope you enjoyed the experience but please reset your memory. Now, you can go on to [[{{{1|Original intrawiki target}}}]].
A similar message (or icon) could be displayed before entering a page, or the same could be achieved by hovering messages. -- Daniel Mietchen 08:24, 5 June 2008 (CDT)