Forum:Star Wars Fanon and Wookieepedia

Alright. I've had enough of the things going on with Star Wars Fanon and Wookieepedia. A while back, a bunch of personal attacks and insults and cuss words were exchanged on the forum to become official friends. Well the proposal or request, whatever you wish to call it, was turned down. Now honestly, I do not mind this, as for the fact that we aren't "official" friends or whatever won't stop me from visiting the Wookiee and reading up on new information and such, as well as obtaining great pictures we all use. Well recently, junk like this has again begun conflict between the two wikis. Unnecessary and ridiculous conflict, that is pointless. Why must those few users be so persistent in pushing this further? We do not need to be official friends to acknowledge one another's existence. The writers of SWF can still go to the Wookiee for resources and information or pictures, and the writers of the Wookiee can still come to SWF and write their own fanon or leave their critique.

I personally am fascinated by the Wookiee and all it's done, its simply amazing. The articles, the images, the overall appearance, etc. But you know what else stands out? The rules of conduct. The Wookiee has so many regulations that are very, very well enforced, which is what we need. Reform. Fourdot gave us ideas through the IRC and told us what we should do to improve our Wiki. I personally have taken them seriously, as for I've began tagging all my images with the fair use tags and trying to categorize a lot of articles, as well as propose new policies. However, we still are very unorganized and have a lot to do. For example, we have over 1,000 uncategorized articles. That is a lot, and a lot of work to get done. However, very few users try to help fix our problems. Lack of reason and lack of following the rules (partly our faults [the admins]) has made us very unorganized when it comes to these type of things. For example, if I was to propose a new policy to make it requirement to source images, probably hardly anyone would follow it, even if it passed. We need major reform. And users have to be willing to do this, so we could be the best of best Wikia wikis out there.

Users also need to follow the Manual of Style, naming conventions, layout guide, etc. No one reads those, obviously, because a lot of our newest articles are junk, unorganized, uncategorized, and have very poor grammar and spelling and such. I am tired of seeing this going around, but it seems we can't do anything to improve it, because no one listens or reads what is supposed to be done. Yeah, we may not be the Wookiee, but we still need a quality standard, which all articles should reach. Now I already know I am going to get opposition for what I will be doing, which will be listed below.


 * I will…
 * Try and categorize properly as many articles as I can and have enough content to denote its worth. If an article has something that tells us a category to place it in, then I will categorize it. If it doesn't, and all it says is something like "Ali was a friend of Lori", then that gives us no information about the character, and is not worthy to be an article. I will delete all such articles. If the author or authors of a deleted article object, a discussion can be made in which how the situation will be handled.
 * I will delete all unused images and all unused categories, as well as unused templates. If they're unused, what's their point of existence?

Anyways, the point of this whole thread was to propose reform. I also wish to make it policy to have to tag images with some sort of licensing and source, because even if it's under the GFDL, we should still cite sources and acknowledge artists and sources.

This whole thing began because of a thread one of our user's decided to start on Wookieepedia. Why? I don't know. But this has to stop, because it's starting nothing but conflict as I said before. We all need to be mature about this situation, and realize things in life. If the Wookiee majority (of voters) don't want to be "official" friends with SWF or dislike SWF in general, then all we can do is get over it. They are entitled to their opinions as you are to yours. Users here on SWF need to be more mature as well. We must all take the logical road to things and see what's better in the long run. Is sourcing images good? Yes, because it shows the source of where it came from or who created an image and it ensures that we the uploaders won't take credit for something we didn't do.

Is categorization good? Yes, because our articles need to all be categorized properly to fit in with one another. Now, I don't know what started this, but all articles (for example) that are a battle article should go into the battles category; just because (I'll use myself as an example) I have "battles by Squishy Vic" or "Battles of the Dar'yaim War", doesn't mean they shouldn't go into the major category of battles. Because categories like "Battle by Squishy Vic" are personal categories for your own use and organization. The "battles" category would be for all of SWF to see ALL the SWF battles. Get it?

As a closing statement: Please show respect to other's opinions and respect their views or values. Please don't start conflicts over such petty things. Please do all you can to improve Star Wars Fanon. I love this wiki, honest, and I want it to be the best that it can be. We need to come together as a community to work on improving the wiki, being the best of the best, guiding new users, and reforming our way of "e-living". Thank you for reading this long, long rant.

Thanks, SV undefined