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Hi Jamie. The 'new editors' on Iain Lee are continuing to insert the claim that he is engaged. Of course, as you know, it's completely unsourced and the modus operandi of the editors inserting it is very similar to those that were inserting the gay claims. The email they claim is not a reliable source even if it did exist.
Basically I'm asking you, to put it bluntly, to continue to back me up on this. I can't keep this out by edit warring, and I can't start dispute resolution if it's only me taking the position that this information is dubious, unsourced and should stay out. If more than one editor tries to point out the meaning of 'reliable source' to the 'new editors', we can progress to RFC if they refuse to acknowledge it. Or, of course, you could tell me that you know the thing about him being engaged is actually true, and I'd take your word for it.
I've considered requesting CheckUser for the 'new accounts', but I don't think their edits are obvious enough vandalism to justify it for the moment.
I've posted similar messages to Arniep and Westminsterboy (the real one). --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 23:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jamie, You know who I am, I am going to beat you up and bully you. I will keep sending you bullying emails in college and theres nothing you can do to stop me or I will hit you more :D
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| 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.
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Things to do
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| 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! |
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Out-of-universe versus in-universe perspectives
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| 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. |
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Article evolution
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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!
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