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{| style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 1em; margin: auto" bgcolor="#A8A8B5" align=center The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter  Volume Edition XIX - October, 2008  Hello, , and, once more, the CUSWFN is here to greet you right at your doorstep, for October, 2008!
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I, Arav the Undersith, am now starting to have conversations on the IRC with people concerning different matters, then add them to CUSWFN. There hopefully will be one converation in each edition.

Star Wars Fanon (In general)

 * Darth Tom interviewd by Arav the Undersith

 Hey all

 Hello.

 Well, I have got 10mins

 Ok, what topic would you like to discuss?

 SWfanon (In general)

 Ok?

 Yeah.

 Lets begin

 Why the hell isn't Wally here?

 You going, or not?

 Question 1: Tom, what is you opinion on the current Administration of the site?

 We r teh pwnz3rs. Oppose us + die HEHEHEHEHEHEH

 That's the opinion of you last night on the IRC

 Huh?

 Remember you kicked me?

<Darth_tom> Yep.

<Arav> (Don’t remind)

<Darth_tom> I remember it clearly.

<Arav> So, what is your serious opinion of SWFanon?

<Darth_tom> I don't do serious.

<Darth_tom> But I'll do it just for now.

<Darth_tom> My opinion of the admins, or of SWF?

<Arav> SWFanons administration.

<Darth_tom> Overall, very good. Some of the admins do need to do a bit more work, and I'm none too proud of those who aren't active, but it's a generally good team.

<Arav> (Get ready viewers. There will soon be a large paragraph of words. I hope. )

<Arav> So, how do you feel on the deletion side of administration jobs?

<Arav> I see you and Drewton have done some deleting of things

<Arav> So, do you think the articles for deletion are getting deleted fast enough?

<WallyBot> BRB

<Darth_tom> Back.

<Arav> Ok, answer for the question

<Darth_tom> We did a hell of a lot, clearing the articles and images for deletion. MDS, Drewton and I cleared many a few nights ago.

<Arav> I have seen that

<Darth_tom> Considering the amount of articles and images there were, we cleared them quickly enough.

<Darth_tom> Heh.

<Arav> What was with the sort of "ban war" with you and Drewton?

<Arav> About Spartan-50's new account

<Darth_tom> There was no war. I interpreted the policy one way, he another. When he had it explained to him that he couldn't unban spartan until the forum discussion had ended, he did back down.

<Arav> I believe the same.

<Darth_tom> I'm sorry?

<Arav> Ok. Do you think the community is involving themselves enough in the forum?

<Darth_tom> Yes; the amount of votes we get on policies and the likes is testament to that.

<Arav> I believe the same, don’t unban him, there was a forum still discussing the matter

<Darth_tom> Ah.

<Arav> Do you think users are spending enough time helping out these new influx of users the past 4 months?

<Darth_tom> I think they're being welcomed and assisted with the policies, and there's nothing more anyone really can do unless they're asked for help.

<Arav> I see many users not welcome new users. I see a new user and another capable user could have welcomed them.

<Arav> I have welcomed users 20 minutes after they have edited

<Darth_tom> That's really a choice up to the user in question.

<Arav> True

<Darth_tom> Next question, please.

<Arav> What as your opinion on the new Joke policy?

<Darth_tom> I think it's a better, more improved policy, and will help us to keep down any ridiculous articles that pop up on our site. We do strive for quality, and this new policy helps us with that.

<Arav> I agree

<Arav> How do you think QotW is comming?

<Darth_tom> I think QotW is coming on pretty well; some of the quotes we have on the main page are nice. I do think, however, that some limits as to how many QotW's can be nominated at one time should come up.

<Arav> Quote of the Week (for you who don’t know)

<Arav> Do you think QotW should be QotM?

<Arav> Quote of the Month?

<Darth_tom> Not particularly. We have a massive amount of quotes to pick from, and it would be a very slow and painful process if it was only monthly.

<Arav> True

<Arav> Well, the quote nominations have been going slow anyway, People are striking there opposes and supporting just so we don’t stop with the quotes.

<Darth_tom> Indeed.

<Arav> To the IRC.

<Arav> Have you seen any trolls or have you had to block anyone or kick anyone

<Arav> ?

<Arav> (Not counting me)

<Arav>

<Darth_tom> Yep.

<Darth_tom> Loads of trolls come here, and require a good kickban/mute.

<Arav> Has it been serious?

<Arav> personal attacks?

<Darth_tom> Not particularly. If many join all at once, I just chan mute and voice everyone bar them. If there's just one or two, I mute/kickban them.

<Arav> Cool.

<Arav> To the future of SWFanon

<Arav> Do you think the website will still be running like it is today?

<Darth_tom> At what time in the future?

<Arav> In about 2 years time?

<Arav> Sorry

<Arav> 2010- 5 years since SWFanon started!

<Darth_tom> I think it will, hopefully, be totally different than it is today, with a different layout and appearance, better policies and ideas, a better standard, quality and number of articles, and a new generation of users.

<Arav> Would you still be here?

<Arav> I will

<Darth_tom> I have no idea. That's for the future to decide.

<Arav> Cool.

<Arav> What is to come of vandals? Do you think there will be more or less in 2 years. (Just your guess)

<Darth_tom> It doesn't really matter how many there are, it matters how capable the administrators are who're to deal with them.

<Arav> True

<Arav> What about the article side? Do you think there will be more fantastic articles and novels like the Bendu Order, Narod Antrell, Force Exile Series and he Decreton Empire?

<Arav> In 2 years?

<Darth_tom> I most definitely do. Hopefully, by then, we'll have a new generation of authors writing articles equally as good or, hopefully, even better, and in varying styles that everyone can enjoy.

<Arav> Absolutely.

<Arav> Finally, do you think SWFanon will reach 60,000 articles in 2 years? Beating Wookieepedia?

<Darth_tom> Well, in that time Wookieepedia will be expanding as well, with the release of new Star Wars material to the canonical world, so it depends on how many authors we have, and how hard working they are. Besides, it's not about the number of articles we have, but the quality of those articles.

<Arav> Well, that’s it for today folks. Read the next issue of CUSWFN for another discussion. This time with JM76, about early times of SWFanon.

<tt>''CUSWFN edition XIX CUSWFN EXIX''</tt>
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