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Announcements and news for WikiProject Star Wars

September: Project members sign the August/September roll call.
User accomplishments:
Recently featured: Padmé Amidala and Palpatine
Other news: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Obi-Wan Kenobi are now Good Articles; Jabba the Hutt appeared on the Main Page on September 15, 2006.
Updates: Firestorm and Sadow are taking initiative and bringing the project back to life.

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[edit] Archives

Some archived talks are kept on this page if they are ongoing.

[edit] A major issue

In looking at a lot of the in-universe articles, I see a lot of battle articles on KOTOR. In other words: RPG plot summary articles with in-universe titles. I suggest all this get compressed into either a plot summary on the main page (which may be tough), or in an article entitled something like Storyline of Knights of the Old Republic (I and/or II, depending on its length). This will be a small step in the right direction, but a tangible one for the time being. — Deckiller 01:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to reaffirm a common point that Wikipedia approaches topics from an out of universe perspective; meaning, our priority is to describe the works and the plots, not just the plots. In other words, we need to limit our in-universe articles (battles, weapons) as much as possible, unless they are significant enough to have a plethora of in and out of universe info, and/or they encompass several works (such as the Battle of Endor or Star Destroyer articles). We should always redirect users interested in an extremely detailed and in-universe source to Wookieepedia. — Deckiller 01:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I would rather we merged them into the game articles; the place to summarize the plot of a work is, as always, the article on that work. We could probably handwave a lot of the middle of these games; there's no great need to delve into every subplot (the really inane subplots on Dantooine and Tatooine in KOTOR come immediately to mind). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Exactly; but I'd rather do it in phases (like I've been doing with a lot of merges), so everything isn't so sudden and a huge tax on time. — Deckiller 03:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
  • User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
  • User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 23:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prequel & Original Trilogy actor/actresses

Does anyone know where I might be able to get backing that Ian McDiarmid was the only person to be recast in a human role for the prequel trilogies? Thanks. b_cubed 22:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

My guess would be either here or here. --Sasuke-kun27 22:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November/December Roll call

(Started a new roll call, since "August/September" was well over a month ago. See archive5)

  1. Hi! I just signed up. I've been wikifying the Viqi Shesh and Anakin Solo articles (you can tell i'm a fan of the New Jedi Order) and also Padme Amidala. Hopefully this project will help me with more ideas about where to edit next- CattleGirl talk | e@ 08:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
  2. Hi! I've just signed on as a project member. I've done a number of minor edits in several SW pages already, including a few minor re-writes of smaller items, and the creation of two minor pages. (I think it's two - it might be more!) Hope this qualifies me. If not, I promise not to cry!DAAdshead 10:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
  3. I'm a little late, but I'm going to be working on getting the A New Hope up to featured status and Empire and Jedi up to GA status. :) The Filmaker 01:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  4. I've been working on several Star Wars articles already (such as Darth Vader). Decided I might as well join since I'm already at work : ) - jc37 02:57, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  5. I've been taking time off from this project to pass GSUSA through the FA process, now that that is done, I might take a break and then start doing overhaul on the KOTOR and video game articles durring Christmas Break. Darthgriz98 03:09, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  6. I guess you could say I'm still around, though not really with the project at the current time — I'm doing some rogue things right now. You'll probably be hearing from me significantly in about a month or so, once everything is lined up. — Deckiller 16:51, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  7. I'm around. School's still going, so nothing's guaranteed. When I'm here, I'll probably be on the books or comics. Right now, I'm working on adding redirects or disambiguation pages to our lists' entries --Skope (talk) 04:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  8. Im still here but Shared IP means that I cant always edit 100% of the time. When I can edit I'll be cleanng up spelling mistakes on other users pages, making small contributions to articles or making stubs for others to expand. I just added the Aleph Starfighter from Star wars betrayal to the starfighter list and added a section on the legacy of the force novels to the correlia article. Lightwhip 08:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  9. I'm around but busy on other sites.... Sadow (talk | contr.) 15:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  10. hey DARCA here. im on board, DARCA 21:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  11. Hi! I'm Yuser31415. I wouldn't claim to be an expert on Star Wars but I have read two or three of the novelisations. I know most about Star Wars Episode I and hope I can help out in this area.
  12. I'm still here, and I still edit Star Wars articles from time to time, but most of my Star Wars related edits will be adding pictures, minor edits, or reverting vandalism due to my lack of knowledge beyond the films. Hope that this is okay. // Sasuke-kun27 21:14, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  13. I don't do much around here anymore, as I've focused much of my wiki-energy on Wookieepedia. But I still watch articles for vandalism. The Wookieepedian 21:17, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  14. Still around, but not particularly active with Star Wars articles anymore. I've become an admin since the last roll call, though, and will be using those new powers to help protect the pages from vandalism. EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:27, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  15. Joining in. Jasca Ducato 10:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars canon

Would some other folks mind poking their heads around Star Wars canon and the talk page. There's a slowly brewing edit war, and a somewhat established user got themselves blocked for 3RR. The same two or three parties have been having a rather heated back and forth for many, many months, and the article, and discussion, could benefit from uninvolved parties with knowledge of the subject. Thanks. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 09:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for sources

If anyone knows of any reliable sources that mention the Backstroke of the West meme, please add them to the article; it is now being discussed at AfD. Kavadi carrier 13:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wookieepedia is not a credible reference

According to Wikipedia policy, external wikis may not be used as sources. This includes Wookieepedia. I've noticed that some articles in this project have been copies articles from Wookieepedia. Transwiki-ing articles involves moving articles across Wikimiedia's wikis, not every wiki throughout the entire internet. Wikis with poor oversight are not as reliable as Wikipedia. Any articles which have been copied from Wookieepedia need to be re-written. Robocracy 13:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW

I would like to suggest that the Star Wars Collaboration of the week be renamed to the Star Wars Collaboration of the Month. This is what is being done in other WikiProjects (to give more time working on articles, and/or because membership may be less than active).

Name changes:

(If I missed any, feel free to add them.)

Once we have consensus here, we can list the category for cfr (possibly speedy), and someone can ask to have a bot to do the page moves, and redirect fixes. - jc37 14:12, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stablepedia

Beginning cross-post.

See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 23:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] New WikiProject: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction

To give some coherency to the many little sf-oriented communities on Wikipedia.--ragesoss 20:22, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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