Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars

[edit] About us

Welcome to the main page of the Star Wars WikiProject. The project launched on February 11, 2006. Currently, we have 63 active members. Please see the discussion page for information on a large collaboration in the works.

WikiProject Star Wars was formed to foster the creation and encyclopedic improvement of Star Wars-related articles, and to establish guidelines for those articles. Its members endeavor to produce a succinct, comprehensive, general, and authoritative reference on Star Wars materials (canon and some non-canon; see below). Additionally, the WikiProject works to ensure that all related articles attain the standards set by WP:FICT and WP:WAF. In order to reach these standards, the WikiProject discourages extreme details and encourages an out-of-universe perspective for all prose (excluding concise plot summaries). To participate, simply add your name to the participants section. Project members, make sure to sign the roll call.

Recent changes in Star Wars-related articles

[edit] Parentage

Seeing as Star Wars covers multiple branches of entertainment, the WikiProject is therefore a sub-project of numerous collaborations:

• WikiProject Entertainment
  • WikiProject Films
  • WikiProject Television
  • WikiProject Books
  • WikiProject Comics
  • WikiProject Computer and video games
    • WikiProject Star Wars

If interested, please sign our participants section.

[edit] News

[edit] Scope and goals

[edit] Mission statement

The goal of the Star Wars Wikiproject is to organize, clean, and improve Star Wars information within a format that fits Wikipedia's fictional procedures to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines.

[edit] Scope

Currently, this WikiProject covers the following items:

1. Anyone affiliated with the concept of Star Wars, including the musicians, casts, and crews of every Star Wars film.
2. Anything featured on the Star Wars portal.
3. Anything located within a Star Wars or Star Wars-affiliated category, sub-category, list, article, stub, or template.

[edit] Goals and duties

Our goals and duties are as follows:

1. Discussions and debates relating to the above items, including merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
2. Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's Fictional Guidelines.
3. Monitoring all articles for violations of anything listed in the above two parts.
4. Work toward making all Star Wars-related articles and lists clean, organized, well-written, and accessible.
5. Bring numerous articles to Good Article, Featured Article, and/or Featured List status.

[edit] Your role

We need the participation of Wikipedians and Star Wars fans alike. Here are some general guidelines to follow.

[edit] How to help

1. Please sign your name below and introduce yourself in the monthly roll call section of the talk page.
2. Take a look at recent discussions and the things to do page to see if your ideas have already been or need to be addressed.
3. Get to know other users so that you can get a sense of the Project's attitude and each member's opinions on what should be merged, expanded, and so on. This will allow you to work better with the team, especially on major projects.
4. Make sure you cite your sources, follow the project's guidelines in addition to style guidelines, and follow the discussions and agreements for the project.
5. Look for text that seems biased (see WP:NPOV) and fix it.
6. Be bold, but do not be reckless. See the above items and the section below for further information on what to do and what not to do.

[edit] How not to help

Do not:

1. Insert un-cited and trivial information (see: WP:FICT, Fancruft).
2. Revert war (adherence to the One Revert Rule is encouraged)
3. Add original research, unsourced claims, speculation, point of view, excess video game information, vandalism, and patent nonsense.

[edit] Things to remember

1. This is a general interest encyclopedia, not GameFAQs or Wookieepedia. In fact, look to see if your article is already in Wookieepedia, there's a good chance there is at least a stub article, if not a full history and background of the character that goes into far more detail than Wikipedia wants.
2. Only a few characters, items, or spaceships deserve their own entry.
3. See: What Wikipedia is Not.
4. Again, we stress: this project is mainly for cleanup, organization, enhancement, factual fixes, and so on. Trivial information and fanfiction are frowned upon.

If some of these items seem redundant, it only underscores what we all believe in as a group.

[edit] Open/major tasks

The following is a chart of our largest tasks. For a complete list, please see the things to do subpage, in addition to our talk page. See the opentask template at the top of the page for the priority tasks. Project members, this chart should feature "priority one" tasks!

[edit] Star Wars Portal

Star Wars Portal

Make sure to visit the Star Wars Portal. Also you can vote for the selected article of the week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote.

[edit] Other

• See the Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/index for a list of Star Wars-related articles that do not require significant attention. Chances are, if an item doesn't belong on that list or isn't on there, it needs to be fixed (make a note on the things to do page and/or the discussion page).

• Also remember that there is a Star Wars barnstar that you can give out to deserving editors (and a userbox for those who are awarded the barnstar).

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	Template type
{{StarWars-stub}} Talk S W  This Star Wars-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The stub for Star Wars-related articles. {{Sww}} Talk Pagename on Wookieepedia, a Wikia wiki For adding an external link to Wookiepedia. {{StarWarsProject}} Talk Star Wars Portal This article is part of WikiProject Star Wars, which aims to build an encyclopedic guide to the Star Wars saga on Wikipedia. To participate, you can improve this article or visit the project page for more information. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. Please rate the article and leave a message on the talk page to explain the ratings and to identify possible improvements to the article. The notice or template marking the article as part of the project. Placed on talk pages of fleshed out articles with no original research, copyvios, or speculation. It has optional paramaters to denote a selected article, list, or picture. {{subst:SWwelcome}} Talk Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to a Star Wars related article. If you are looking for ways to further collaborate on such articles, there is a Star Wars WikiProject which you can join and help us edit Wikipedia's Star Wars articles. Wikipedia also has a Star Wars Portal. If you have any questions just ask at the Star Wars WikiProject. Also here are a few good links for newcomers: The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Tutorial How to write a great article Manual of Style I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Also remember to use the edit summary when you contribute. Again, thank you for your help! Template to greet new users and invite them to the Star Wars WikiProject. {{subst:SWwelcome-E}} Talk Hello! Thank you for contributions. I have realized that you have edited a Star Wars related article. If you wish there is a Star Wars WikiProject which you can join and help us edit Wikipedia’s Star Wars articles. Wikipedia also has the following Star Wars related projects: Star Wars WikiProject discussion Index of the best Star Wars articles Star Wars things to do Star Wars Portal Star Wars Selected Article voting If you have any questions just ask at the Star Wars WikiProject. Again, Thank you for your help! Template to invite experienced users to the Star Wars WikiProject. {{User Star Wars WikiProject}} Talk STAR WARS This user is a member of the Star Wars WikiProject. Userbox for project members.

[edit] Participants

Here is a list of Star Wars Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.