Talk:Wookieepedia

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was to move this page --Lox (t,c) 12:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Currently we redirect wookiepedia to star wars wiki, but according to their own website [1], they changed their name formally.

Voting

• Support. Olessi 17:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Star Wars Wiki site says it has changed its name. JimmyTheWig 11:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Certainly it is legitimate to describe them as the Star Wars Wiki, but if they've changed their name, and given that it is possible a new wiki might start one day, it seems more legitimate to use Wookiepedia. --Maru (talk) Contribs 17:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Discussion

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Wikia vs. wiki

While I appreciate the PR aspect of it, I'm not sure defining Wookieepedia as a "wikia" is more helpful than just a "wiki". Thoughts?

A Wikia is a wiki hosted by Wikia. I know it's confusing, and I think the names "Wikicities" and "Wikicity" were better than "Wikia". --Sikon 11:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

But Wikia is the commercial, branded term created by the company, and not only that is understood by the general public, I suspect. ---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by SparqMan (talk • contribs)

I'm with Sikon here. Hell, I'm an admin, I've editted on a number of Wikicities-hosted wikis, and I had no idea what that meant (well, I figured it out after reading up on it, but you know what I mean). --maru (talk) contribs 05:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Whups, I did mean to sign. Thanks =). So do we incur the wrath of the gods by changing it back? --SparqMan 07:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, no way to know but to try. I shall endanger my reproductive potential by finding out and recklessly going first- just as evolution intended. --maru (talk) contribs 19:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, this'll teach me to read talk pages before editing the article. I've pretty much done s/Wikicities/Wikia/, maintaining the 'wiki' description. I hope that's okay. I believe it is appropriate, since reverting my changes would be silly - Wikicities no longer exists. --Fuzzie (talk) 06:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't really understand the objections. The page originally said Wikicities, but since Wikicities was renamed to Wikia, I changed it to use the new name instead. Please see the Wikicities:Press releases/March 2006 for information on the name change. Angela. 06:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Angela, I thought it was pretty clear our objection: next to no one has heard of Wikia, but Wikicities is much better known. I'll give you an example- if I were writing about Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, should I link to Qymaen jai Sheelal or General Grievous? One is more correct and recent than the other (much like Wikia and Wikicities), but nevertheless vastly less known and hence usable. I mean, Google hits are quite clear; there are roughly four times less for Wikia than Wikicities. We would be doing readers a disservice by not a least including a note after employing this novel nomenclature of the previous name. --maru (talk) contribs 07:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

My original objection regarded replacing the text "Wookieepedia...is a wiki" with "Wookieepedia...is a wikia" based the noun "wikia" means nothing to most users compared to "wiki". The latter objections belong to others. --SparqMan 09:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the host of the wiki belongs in the intro paragraph at all. Take a look at my recent edit and see if you think it improves things. --P3d0 20:45, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Dictatorship

They Sadly have started blocking every page, starting on April 23, and have turned a wiki from a democracy to where everyone can edit, to a monarchy, to where only the admin team can edit, a few of the dictators are: StarNeptune JSarek Cutch MandalorainWarrior SFH Kurylov Silly Dan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swainstonation (talk • contribs) .

• Care to format that properly and to back that up? --maru (talk) contribs 22:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
  • sure ill back it up, look at each users profile and se how many pages thayve blocked and the people theyve banned, i dont need to back it up but i am Template:Swainstonation
    • I can't find anything by you, and besides, Wookieepedia is a wiki. Blocking people is par for the course. --maru (talk) contribs 02:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Pages are being protected sparingly, only from moves, only the most popular ones and only because of increasing "on wheels" vandalism. And when users get blocked, you can always check the block log and their contribs and see why. So unless you find conclusive evidence of admin rights abuse, please stop whining. Besides, Wookieepedia, or any wiki, was never supposed to be a democracy. - Sikon 05:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

right, so how how does anarchy sound, it sounds great to me

• Anarchy sounds unacceptable, especially given that the amount of vandalism increased dramatically lately. - Sikon 04:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• "Anyone can edit" does not mean it's a licence to do dumb crap like call C-3PO gay and say he's from San Francisco and call everyone who opposes you gay as well by vandalizing their userpages. If you have a problem with me or anyone else, take it to our talk pages on Wookieepedia, so we can discuss this an a civilized, non-homophobic manner. StarNeptune 14:26, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Half of those guys aren't even admins anyway. —Silly Dan _(talk) 05:11, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

so half still are, stop diverting attention away from the problem, u bug me the most out of all of them sillydan

• I'm sorry you feel that way: perhaps you will be happy to note that were are working on making the block policy less arbitrary. On the other hand, people who start vandalizing again after a ban expires will quickly be blocked. —Silly Dan _(talk) 22:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

r u always that annoying silly dan

• Yes. Yes I am. —Silly Dan _(talk) 22:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

ur canadian i presume, nobody can be that annoying from the U.S

• George W. Bush is from the US though. :P The Wookieepedian 23:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

hes not annoying, hes smart and leads the country well, hes had more hardships in his presidency than anyone one else, so he has an excuse

• ~stifles a laugh~ He brought most of those on himself. StarNeptune 11:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Of course he is Canadian. I mean, there aren't any other countries on Earth besides the US and Canada. And even if there are, 99.99999999% of Internet users are either from the US and Canada. IPs are futile. You will be stereotyped. And these political comments are very relevant to your extremely intelligent and constructive criticism of Wookieepedia. - Sikon 15:45, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Haha, funny Sikon. If you (the idiot who can't sign a comment) honestly think that Wookieepedia has become a dictatorship you should head down to Vietnam, then you'll see a dictatorship alright! I'm not an admin but i've made plenty all of edits without being blocked so that stuffs your theory down the drain. PS, Bush is an idiot who couldn't govern a Greenhouse without going to war. Jasca Ducato 19:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

he is great at governing our country and a lot of other countries use the internet like Japan for one --Andy 20:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• Yeah, great at gettin' us into trouble. The Wookieepedian 23:27, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Bush is a dick and more ( i wont say what because i'll get banned from Wikipedia). Oh, and in case you haven't noticed i don't particularly like Bush because he's brought my country (England, not Britain) down the drain with him! So stop attacking Wookieepedia just beacuse the chances are your one of the anons that Sikon noticed had been vandalising the JEdi Exile page or whatever, GET A LIFE! Jasca Ducato 08:13, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

• • i have a life unlike the nerds hoo contribute to wookieepedia--Andy 02:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)--Andy 02:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)--Andy 02:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)--Andy 02:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)