Talk:Mundane

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I thought "mundane" was used by members of the society of creative anachronism to refer to non-members. I believe its usage is much older than Babylon 5.

If this post has been marked as possible deletion because of the "Wikipedia is no dictionary"-rule, then I strongly disagree. In Babylon 5, the term is used to do describe the regular humans, not different from when you make articles about different races in sci-fi tv-series. Agreed, the article may be a stub, but I don't think it is suitable for deletion.--Emilsj 13:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vote for Deletion

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 01:34, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Other instances of it being used

I remember playing Ultima 7 part 2: The Serpent Isle, and those who lived in a city of mages, refered to those without magic as mundanes. Just in case anyone wanted to add some trivia somewhere. I'm sure if you googled around enough, you'd find a lot of science fiction and fantasy stories use that term. Dream Focus 17:11, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Open-source movement use of the term

I googled, and discovered (as if I didn't know this already) that the use of the term in open-source circles seems to owe an enormous amount to the presence of SF fans among open-source folks. (No surprise to this fan.) The use of term, given the subject matter, tends to be heavily weighted towards blogs and bulletin boards, etc. reliable sources are going to be trickier to find. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)