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[edit] Planets

Excellent work with the planet lists so far; I'm glad that a fellow editor has interest in fixing/reducing the star wars fancruft :) Deckiller 03:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment. I had to look up "fancruft" though, heh. I've deleted a few extraneous sentences here and there, but not that much. -- wacko2 18:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, if you're interested in organizing, cleaning, and merging the star wars pages, check out Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List of proposed projects and look for Star Wars; we're starting a WikiProject soon for that stuff. Deckiller 03:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I've joined the proposed Star Wars Wikiproject. My main focus will likely be List of Star Wars planets, since almost everything I do revolves around that list in some manner! *grin* -- wacko2 05:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project

The StarWars WikiProject will be starting soon, here is what I have down so far: User:Deckiller/WikiProject Star Wars. We have 7-9 people interested so far. Deckiller 21:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject up

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars. Thanks! Deckiller 17:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Wikiproject

Hello! Thank you for participating in the Star Wars Wikiproject. The participants section has recently been changed so it would be appreciated that you put the template {{User Star Wars WikiProject}} onto your Userpage so that you appear in Category:WikiProject Star Wars members. That way you appear in the listing of WikiProject Star Wars members. Jedi6 04:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Done. -- wacko2 05:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Collaboration of the week

Make sure to vote for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week for next week at Wikipedia:Star Wars Collaboration of the week. Jedi6 04:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars voting

Please make sure you vote for the Star Wars selected article, list and picture by Monday. Jedi6 11:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Hey, good work with the citations. I plan on adding some more major JA characters tonight/over the weekend, and I've finally gotten the swing of how the planet list articles are broken down, so wikify should be less of a task for you :) Deckiller 20:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll be gone this weekend, but I'd be more than happy to look over your stuff next week. :D -- wacko2 04:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heir to the Empire

Thanks for replying and letting me know about the orginal entry. I added it in to Heir to the Empire. Do you like that I made a listing of all the different edition of the book or should i delete it? Tutmosis 03:20, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

You know, I'm really not sure. On one hand, it might be nice to have a complete list of the different editions of a particular book. But on the other hand, such a list could get quite lengthy if there are many different editions. This is actually the case for Heir to the Empire: there are hardcovers, paperbacks, audio cassettes, comic book adaptations, etc. Maybe check out this list to get an idea of the potential complexity (scroll down to see the editions). If you want to tackle that sort of thing, it might be better to only list the first hardcover, the first paperback, etc. Then again, it probably would be easier to leave all that stuff out and just list the orginal edition as the source. If you're undecided, you should probably get some more opinions from other people who have been around longer than I have. -- wacko2 03:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Wow thats alot. Yea that page made me have second thoughts. For the ISBN code and the publisher do we just use the very first edition then? Also personally I would agree that the Versions section can go. The Related Books I would suggest stay, such as the source book since we cant make articles for each of those. Tutmosis 04:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, use the first edition for the ISBN and the publisher. As well, I agree that the Related Books section can stay. The sourcebook and the comic adaptation are both excellent examples of related books. -- wacko2 04:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay I removed Versions. Article still is bare and in need of expansion. Tutmosis 04:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I would expand the article, but alas, I don't own the book. As a matter of fact, I've never even read it. I really should pick up the whole trilogy sometime. -- wacko2 04:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

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For all your work on the Star Wars lists! Jedi6-(need help?) 00:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the award, Jedi6! I noticed that you kind of look after List of Star Wars books. What I'm trying to do right now is get List of Star Wars references up to that same standard. Once that's accomplished, then we can discuss a merge or whatever needs to be done. -- wacko2 02:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Star Wars newsletter

Project updates
Greetings, Star Wars editors! Deckiller here. It's the first edition of the WikiProject Star Wars newsletter, and yes, it's a semi-ripoff of the Esperenza newsletter. I think it's important to begin with some good news: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Jabba the Hutt have reached featured article status! Kudos to the editors who helped obtain these achievements!

WikiProject Star Wars is also on a mission to improve Star Wars articles using the following ideas:

  • An out of universe perspective versus an in universe perspective (see Wikipedia:Writing about fiction and the future ammendments to our manual of style)
  • Evolving lists into regular articles
  • Moving excess information and specifics to Wookieepedia (and providing links to Wookieepedia per the "see also" and/or "external links" sections)
  • Enhanced communication amongst WikiProject members
  • More to come

These should provide the basic steps needed to improve and "encyclopedia-fy" the Star Wars series of articles.
Things to do
There are plenty of Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/things to do. An update to the page is coming very soon, and it will represent the new and exciting changes that Star Wars pages will be receiving!
Out-of-universe versus in-universe perspectives
Although details are forthcoming, I would like to take this time to explain the gist of this concept. Wikipedia has generally agreed that fictional articles should write about the topic from a "real world" perspective, focusing on real world issues and topics, with a section or two for plot synopsis and so on. Jabba the Hutt is a solid character example, and Clone Wars (Star Wars) is quickly moving toward an out of universe perspective.
Article evolution

As many of you know, lists of minor Star Wars-related themes are very common on Wikipedia; however, since these may be seen as violations of Wikipedia policy (and having seperate articles would breach even more policies), the tentative solution is to create general articles on a list's topic (for example, turning List of Star Wars devices into Technology of Star Wars, which allows us to cover everything from hyperspace to comlinks in a general encyclopedic fashion). This can be very tough for some broad topics, so the key is organization. I encourage all editors to list their ideas on the WikiProject talk page. It will be a very difficult — but tangible — effort.

For an example, let me point you to the Final Fantasy WikiProject. Some of us over at that WikiProject decided to turn various components of Final Fantasy X, such as Pyreflies, Yevon, and the backstory — into an article describing the world of Spira. Location descriptions were given a List of locations in Spira article, and the details themselves were placed on the Spira (Final Fantasy X) page. This is a decent template to follow — however, we will need to place priority on out-of-universe, "real life" topics and perspectives in realtion to the article.

Sounds confusing, eh? It won't, for examples will be popping up left and right in the near future!
Signed...
— Deckiller 03:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No problem

The article in question has been transferred (or will be shortly) to User:Wacko2/List of Star Wars references. You are correct -- I should have left it to be merged, as there was not enough consensus. My apologies. Once you are finished with said page, please leave a note on my talk page so that I may delete its. Cheers! Ian Manka Talk to me! 05:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, once you are finished merging the relevant information from your subpage, please contact me so I can delete the subpage. Ian Manka Talk to me! 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
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