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Date	Process	Result
April 18, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
July 8, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 18, 2019	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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The content of Babylon 5 influences was merged into Babylon 5 on March 3, 2019. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Kaiser, Rowan (2012-11-07). "Babylon 5 redefined TV science fiction, so why isn't it better known?". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 2023-08-15. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

'New external links'

Whatever edit I make to this article, I immediately get a message claiming that I have introduced new external links and demanding that I should fill in a captcha to prove I am not a spam bot. I suppose that some admin at some point felt there was too much vandalism and decided to make it harder for IPs to edit the page, but having the software tell every IP that they have added external links when they haven't is clearly an inadequate way to do this. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 21:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article isn't protected, so you should be able to edit it in the same way you can edit any other article. You might consider asking for support at the Teahouse or Help desk if you're uncomfortable creating an account, or we might be able to help you if you can provide more information regarding what change you're trying to make. DonIago (talk) 03:07, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

not a matter of dialect

This American thinks "monologs" looks weird. —Tamfang (talk) 03:19, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary calls it a rare American variant. —Tamfang (talk) 04:11, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merriam-Webster calls it "less common". They say the same for 'dialog'. Per WP:ENGVAR, I don't think someone should be changing it just for the sake of changing it, but in general the -ue versions are probably better-known. DonIago (talk) 05:25, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Air Date

Air date is listed as "Mon, Feb 22, 1993".

However, the world premier was the last week of January in 1994. 185.85.154.142 (talk) 10:09, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1993 is the pilot film's release date. Masem (t) 12:05, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cast list order

Is there any reason why the cast list on this page's infobox has to be organized differently than on every other TV show infobox on Wikipedia? In every single other instance it starts with the season 1 cast and adds cast additions from further seasons afterwards, but when I resorted the cast list to follow that it immediately got reverted by someone who asserted that the infobox cast order has to work a certain way on this page that it doesn't on any other page. If there's a special reason Babylon 5 is an exception to the rule I want to know because otherwise it feels incredibly arbitrary and like someone just wanted to revert my edit for the sake of it. Goweegie2 (talk) 19:59, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that and was a bit curious about it myself. Pinging Canterbury Tail (talk · contribs) as the reverting editor. DonIago (talk) 20:10, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry you're quite right, I just double checked the infobox instructions and I'm the one in the wrong. I'll revert. Canterbury Tail talk 20:18, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yeah fair enough, everyone makes mistakes sometimes. No hard feelings. Goweegie2 (talk) 20:21, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! DonIago (talk) 20:24, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]