Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars

WikiProject: Star Wars (edit or watch this box)

Here are some tasks you can do, as organized by WikiProject Star Wars:

• Copyedit/extensive work:
• Assess: Rate articles from Unassessed Star Wars articles and Unknown-importance Star Wars articles.
• Tag the talk pages of Star Wars-related articles with the {{WikiProject Star Wars}} banner.
• Expand: Mara Jade, Secrets of the Jedi, Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, Showdown at Centerpoint
• Requests:
• Stubs: work on stubs in articles in Star Wars stubs
• Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
• Other: See the things to do page

Welcome to the main page of the Star Wars WikiProject. The project launched on February 11, 2006. Currently, we have 58 active members.

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

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.

Navigation

More items to be added later.

• Project discussion
• Index of the best Star Wars articles
• Things to do (Most active page)
• Star Wars Collaboration of the week
• Star Wars Portal
• Selected Article voting

News

Announcements and news for WikiProject Star Wars
August/October 2010:	User accomplishments: None Recently featured: Sebastian Shaw (actor) Other news: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope has been demoted from Featured Article status! The article Cad Bane has appeared on the main page of Wikipedia on the DYK portion. Updates: A project on the music task force has been created

Scope and goals

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.

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.

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.

Your role

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

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.

How not to help

Do not:

1. Insert un-cited and trivial information (see: WP:FICT, Fancruft).
2. Revert war (adherance 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.

Things to remember

1. This is a general interest encyclopedia, not GameFAQs or Wookieepedia.
2. See: What Wikipedia is Not.
3. 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.

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!

Accomplishments

Good Articles

• Star Wars
• The Star Wars Holiday Special
• Darth Vader
• Sarlacc

Featured Articles

• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Jabba the Hutt

Canonicity

Main article: Star Wars canon

Official Star Wars canon, as defined by Lucas Licensing, consists of the six Star Wars feature films, along with all officially licensed, non-contradicting television series/films, books, comics, video games, and RPG sourcebooks. Fanfiction, speculation, and most non-canon are not permitted and will be deleted, per Wikipedia policy and this WikiProject. Notable non-canon works will be handled on a case-by-case basis, as it is a difficult subject to set boundaries — especially on Wikipedia.

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.

Collaboration of the week

Template:StarWarsCOTW The Star Wars Collaboration of the week is a group effort to improve a specific Star Wars article on Wikipedia every week. To help out or vote for next week's candidate please see the Star Wars Collaboration of the week page.

Participants

All of our current members can be found at Category:WikiProject Star Wars members. If you are interested, feel free to join! Just add your username to the list below and add the Userbox for project members, {{User Star Wars WikiProject}}, and your name will appear in Category:WikiProject Star Wars members. Watch for periodic roll calls on the talkpage. Keep on top of current events or debates on the discussion and things to do pages. Thanks!

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Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{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. 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 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.
{{StarWars-stub}} Talk		The stub for Star Wars-related articles.
{{Sww}} Talk	Pagename on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki	For adding an external link to Wookiepedia.
{{StarWarsProject}} Talk		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 specualtion.
{{User Star Wars WikiProject}} Talk	This user is a participant in WikiProject Star Wars.	Userbox for project members.
{{Star Wars Portal}} Talk		Template for Star Wars portal.
{{StarWarsSA}} Talk	Template:StarWarsSA	Template for selected articles.
{{StarWarsSP}} Talk	Template:StarWarsSP	Template for selected pictures.
{{StarWarsSL}} Talk	Template:StarWarsSL	Template for selected lists.
{{StarWarsCOTW}} Talk	Template:StarWarsCOTW	Template that shows the current and previous Star Wars Collaboration of the week.
{{Current-SWCOTW}} Talk	Template:Current-SWCOTW	Template to put on the front page of each week's collaboration.
{{subst:SWCOTWvoter}} Talk	Template:SWCOTWvoter	Template that informs supports of an article that it is the current Star Wars Collaboration of the week.

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.