User blog:Brandon Rhea/A quick note about ASWS years.

I just wanted to make a quick note about year articles. As some of you will soon notice, I will be creating the article 22 BBY (ASWS) (if this link isn’t red, then obviously I’ve created it by the time you read this) as the ASWS of the year. This is as opposed to linking to the canon article on Wookieepedia and using the ultra meh version here on SWF. For the Wookieepedia article, obviously it includes a whole bunch of information that doesn’t apply to the ASWS. For the SWF version, well...just look for yourself. Besides the fact that the SWF year articles are atrociously formatted in many instances, they also have information that doesn’t apply to me.

I’m going to be creating ASWS year articles that apply only to my work and the rest of the work in the ASWS. It’s not just going to be a list either. It’s going to have a certain format, created by Jedimasterfiolli. This is what he came up with here on Wookieepedia:

Year Articles

There are no current guidelines for the organization of year articles within the Wookieepedia. Nevertheless, a structure has been established at the outset of this project for uniformity and professionalism. There are five main sections to these articles:
 * 1) Proem provides an overview of the events or occurrences of prior years that prompted events that occurred in the year itself.
 * 2) The galaxy in [year] covers a detailed description of the events and occurrences of the year, offering details in relation to that year.
 * 3) Impact deals with effects events had after the year proper. It can cover a short-term aftermath to long-lasting effects.
 * 4) Notable events is more of a list than prose, although everything should be comprised in complete sentences where possible. This section can be divided into Conflicts and battles, Births, Deaths, and Other events.
 * 5) Behind the scenes offers an out-of-universe perspective on the development of events in that year as expected by the Layout Guide for other articles on Wookieepedia.

Each of these five sections may be further subdivided as appropriate. On articles where a lack of detail is encountered due to limited information, it is perfectly acceptable to only include the Notable events section until it can be fully developed at a later point.

This has allowed him to actually GA year articles:, , , , and. Considering our current system of doing years, where people just throw events onto a list and formatting goes relatively unchecked, this is impossible to do on SWF without a format like the one above.

Now why am I actually telling you about this? Because I want to ask you not to jump on the bandwagon and do it just because I am. No I’m not trying to flatter myself by assuming that. I’m going by the fact that we sometimes all start doing things after one person decides to do it, just because it’s the newest and coolest thing to do. Ataru, for example, started releasing TEGTFE, and a lot of people just up and decided to make EGs of their own. Have most of them done anything other than create an article about it? Nope, they haven’t. So yeah, basically all I’m asking is not to create year articles for your own continuity unless you’re serious about remaining dedicated to doing it. If you don’t think you’re going to do that, just use the current year articles.

For sourcing purposes, I’ll just say that, unless it’s contradicted later, the and the  are part of ASWS history, as is the Ruusan reformation. The dates for those are 3,681 BBY to 3,653 BBY, 3,653 BBY, and 1,000 BBY, respectively. I don’t acknowledge the Great ReSynchronization because I don’t want to put the effort into wrapping my head around it, lol. Furthermore, to make sure my sourcing all matches up, I'll just point out that the Battle of the Space Station, the conjectural title of a battle in the ASWS's Galactic Civil War, is indeed the Battle of Yavin. I won't confirm what the unidentified planet-destroying battle station is, though.

So yeah, that’s about it.