Star Wars Fanon:Quote of the Week

 A Quote of the Week is a quote that remains on the Star Wars Fanon Wiki Main Page for a total of seven days, starting on Sunday at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time and lasting until Saturday at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. The quote is one that has been chosen by voting users as a quote that represents the best on the wiki.

Good candidates for Quote of the Week should be compelling, engaging, well articulated, and tell an interesting enough story by themselves in order to encourage readers to read more from where it came from, whether it came from an article or a fan fiction story.

Nomination process:

There is a simple process that all Quote of the Week candidates go through in order to be selected as a Quote of the Week. That process is as follows:


 * 1) Any user may nominate a quote from any article or fan fiction story, but only users who meet the voting policy may vote.
 * 2) Quotes are successful after reaching five (5) net votes, which is determined after adding the support and opposition votes. Successful quotes will be placed on the list of upcoming quotes.
 * 3) Quotes are unsuccessful after receiving a net total of negative five (-5) votes, or if they fail to garner any form of consensus after one month of being on the nominations track.
 * 4) All quotes must be sourced. If the quote only appears in an article, the source is the article.
 * 5) Any quote that does not meet the content policy will be removed from the nominations track. It may be removed from the source article as well.
 * 6) Users can use any reason to oppose a nomination. This includes "I don't like the quote," "it's too unbelievable," "it's too long," or anything else. All reasons are acceptable so long as users remain civil.

How to nominate:

When you nominate an article, please use the following nomination form in order to maintain a sense of organization on the nominations track:


 * === Speaker’s name ===
 * ==== Quote (+/-#) ====
 * ==== Support ====
 * ==== Neutral ====
 * ==== Oppose ====
 * ==== Comments ====

Nominations will remain on the nominations track until they become successful, the author removes the nomination, it reaches a consensus of opposition, or it fails to gain the necessary votes to be either successful or unsuccessful after one month. If it is successful, the quote will be added to the list of upcoming quotes.

Quote (0)
"Are you brainless soldier? Out of my way or I’ll send you back to Sviat in a supply crate!"

- Leon Spaalev to Zenn Mietere after the latter demanded identification

Support

 * 1) Gonna give it a try. Ty294  {Talk}  17:41, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) --Wylindsig.png (Conference Room)  20:25, November 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 15:11, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Seems like a slight variation of an overused idiom, but I don't dislike it enough to oppose it completely.- Chosen One So the Prophecy says... ''' 14:39, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) I agree with Chosen One.

Oppose

 * 1) Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 13:55, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Quote (+1)
"Hell can cast shadows on even the holiest of eyes."

- Irpene, Corellian holy woman, Journal of the Whills, 1:07

Support

 * 1) --Wylindsig.png (Conference Room)  20:26, November 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Brandon's evidence shifts my vote.-- Josh Bender Talk 18:35, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) It does its job by making the reader want to read more...- Chosen One So the Prophecy says... ''' 14:36, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) As I've said before, as they're on the front page, I like quotes for QOTW to feel like they could from Star Wars. This does not. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 13:56, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) * #I agree with Drewton, sorry Brandon. -- Josh Bender Talk 18:25, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Per Drewton, and the meaning of "shadows" is unclear. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication[[Image:Sabersmilyc3po.jpg|25px]] 16:38, November 21, 2009 (UTC)

Comments
I just want to comment on the supposed lack of Star Wars feel to this: and. That is all. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 18:31, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * I know that there's Hell (or something like it) and religion (the Yuuzhan Vong come to mind, not to mention Jedi and Sith) in Star Wars. It's the quote I have a problem. It sounds like something that would come from the Bible. Don't get the wrong impression from that - I'm a Catholic Christian - I don't mean that I dislike the Bible, I just don't like seeing Star Wars seem like a Bible story. When I've seen Hell and religion used in all official published Star Wars works, to me it doesn't come off at all like that. If an ordinary person were to come on here and read this quote on the front page, they wouldn't be reminded of Star Wars whatsoever and I think they'd therefore be less inclined to join. I'll admit that there was the same issue with my politics quotes from a year ago as well, and would not nominate them today. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 19:43, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Less inclined to join? That's a complete over-exaggeration. The point of QOTW is to have intriguing quotes that make people want to read more, either from the article or from the fan work that it's sourced to. If you don't think it's intriguing enough to do that then that's 100% perfectly fine, but don't be ridiculous by saying it'll make it less likely that people would join. That has absolutely no basis in reality. Besides, if people do read the quote and go to the article or the fan work, they'll find that it's from 47,000 BBY, ie. ancient Corellia, in a time much different than the movies, for example. Furthermore, to suggest that no one in Star Wars would say anything like that is also thinking inside the box instead of outside of it. If you think that adding 47,000 BBY would help with context, I'd be happy to add that into the context. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to change your vote. I just want to get the record straight here on this whole "it's not like Star Wars" thing and the over-exaggeration. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 20:16, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * For the most part, no, I don't think it would change whether most users registered or not, but I'd disagree that there would be no one less inclined to join because of the quote on the front page. Same with the featured article. Let's just at least agree to disagree. And no, I don't think that adding "47,000 BBY" or more context would help. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 20:43, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Well, there’s not a shred of evidence to suggest QOTW has anything to do with people, even if only a few, registering on SWF, but I’m perfectly happy to agree to disagree. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 21:47, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Quote (+3)
"Have you seen the suffering of those who starve because of this war? Have you seen the look of despair in a mother's eyes when she looks to her children and tells them their father is dead? Do you see your friends and comrades falling around you and know that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, nothing will help them? Have you seen the bodies, oh so many bodies that have been broken and destroyed or the ruins of those once great cities and races that now burn because of your inaction? Have you seen anything besides the mounds of credits you pile before you and shove in your fat faces?"

- raging at the inaction of the Senate

Support

 * 1) This is just perfect for Malek (intentionally incorrect spelling). Yes. Drewton  [[Image:Era-old.png|20px]] ( Drewton's Holocron ) 17:57, November 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) A rousing speech. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication[[Image:Sabersmilyc3po.jpg|25px]] 16:42, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Now that I can vote.

Neutral

 * 1) I like the message, but I don't like the way it's said. The "Have you seen" over and over gets repetitive and boring. - Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 17:25, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

Quote (+2)
"Our Lords who look down upon us," "Grant us the strength to carry out our duty," "May our gyros not fail," "May our smart missiles and chainrails ring true," "And grant us the strength to apply such force to the backsides of our enemies that they shalt not be able to sit down for the rest of their days."

- Official prayer for Eradicae-class warsuit pilots

Support

 * 1) May as well give it a try. Unit 8311 [[Image:1110 Big small.jpg|20px]] Talk!  14:27, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Kinda funny. Especially that last sentence.

Neutral

 * 1) At the moment, it is a bit witty and ironic, but is missing oomph. Maybe if you made it rhyme... --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication[[Image:Sabersmilyc3po.jpg|25px]] 16:41, November 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) *I could do that, but as it's supposed to be translated, it would be an amazing coincidence if it came out in rhyme in a different language... ;) Unit 8311 [[Image:1110 Big small.jpg|20px]] Talk!  16:49, November 21, 2009 (UTC)