Talk:Star Wars/Archive 6
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revenue?
Article says box office revenue is 4.3 bil, while the infobox says gross revenue is 6.6 bil. What is the difference? the 6.6 should appear somewhere in the article (sourced) and be explained (perhaps right next to the 4.3) TheHYPO (talk) 02:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Also, it says Star Wars has made 6.6 billion dollars total, making it ONE of the most financially successful franchises of all time. What's number one? Jaws? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.184.197.197 (talk) 13:25, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- I believe Harry Potter is the top grossing series at this time. James Bond is another high grossing series. TheHYPO (talk) 18:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Maybe James Bond but not Harry Potter, it's too new. Feral Mind (talk) 01:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Wording
>>Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker are the same person, in different states of mind
This note from the apperance table seems like a poor wording for wikipedia. There is no way to assess a characters "state of mind". The characters should either be combined into one row on the table, or a clearer wording should be used, but as they are the same character, and he appears as both vader and outside his suit in two of the films, they should simply be one row, one character.
Frankly, I think the whole table thing is stupid and pointless - who needs a table of apperances? To see a character's appearances, one can check the characters' pages. A better route, IMO would be a bolded linked-name with a brief description and perhaps mentioning which films the characters appear in. TheHYPO (talk) 19:51, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. The whole table thing really is stupid and pointless. Happy editing,--Padawan Animator (talk) 18:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Mass pruning
I have undertaken to clean up this article because it really needed it: this is a permanent link to the edit prior to my cleanup, for reference to what was deleted.
I think the main problem is that this article is billed on the topic of "Star Wars" as a media franchise, yet 80% of the article is a history of the films. Articles already exist for Star Wars original trilogy and Star Wars prequel trilogy. Those articles are the perfect place for information about the scripts (info about the scripts of each film should really be in the film's article, while info about each trilogy as a whole could go in those articles.)
- I killed the infobox - I can see both sides on this and if people want it returned, I can accept that - but I think that since this article is about the franchise, infoboxes showing producers and writers and directors of the films themselves focuses the article on the films, and not the franchise.
- Very little info was sourced, and a lot of it was original research or personal opinion
- Stuff that was very film-specific I killed because I feel there is a better place for it if it can be sourced - eg: the television rights, or the re-release info.
I really WANT to kill the script info here because it's general broken down film by film (or at least between the two trilogies) - it should go in the films' articles, or in the trilogy articles, but it's all fairly well sourced so I didn't want to kill it outright - but I think it needs rewriting to be a little more neutral, better gramatically, and more concise.
Looking at those trilogy articles, I see they are in a terrible state. I think the best thing to be done would be to "merge" them both into another article called Star Wars films for all the info on all six films as a whole (as opposed to info about the films individually) - such as group DVD releases, etc. I see now that the trilogy articles are quite baron. They should not contain bare lists of characters and cast and locations as such (cast lists should be relegated to the individual films), and synopses as large as the ones in those articles should also be left for the individual films. I propose that the info that was previously on this article be (properly sourced) moved to an article like Star Wars films, and the trilogy articles be merged into that article (which could have a division for each of the two trilogies).
Then, this article can have a very short "Star Wars films" section, with a {{main}} template pointing to the main article, and this page being merely a coinduit to point readers to all the different facets of the Star Wars franchise, which is what this article purports to be TheHYPO (talk) 13:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Immaculate Conception
I am not registered to edit the article, but would like to suggest changing this reference (and the stub it leads to) to "virgin birth". The confusion stems from a South Park episode and should not be encouraged by Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.175.98 (talk) 06:23, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- The wording has been removed completely but I think your assumption is wrong. There is indeed great confusion about the difference between the alleged immaculate conception of Mary and virgin birth of Jesus. However this almost definitely has little to do with South Park, the confusion existed long before South Park Nil Einne (talk) 16:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Pictures
There is a very large absence of pictures on this article. There are tons, why arent they on the page?--Royalmate1 (talk) 03:49, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- Good point. why don't you add some? I would do it myself but I have no clue how. Lets kick this pig! RC-0722 (talk) 04:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
TIME Collection
There is a collection of Star Wars related stories that the TIME Archives put together, and that could be placed in the External Links section. The Collection could provide context and more resources for those users who wish to expand their research. [1] --Kevindkeogh (talk) 19:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
