Talk:Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Unsourced content in lead

Paintspot, regarding my recent removal of content from the lead [1], most of these claims were not supported at all by reviews in the main article body and some are even contradicted by them. The Manual of Style was recently updated to include, "Any summary of the film's critical reception should avoid synthesis and reflect detail that is widely supported in published reviews" (see WP:FILMLEAD), and so I kept part of the Jar Jar Binks reference since it is sourced to secondary sources in the main reception section, rather than one or two individual reviews. If you think some of those claims would be useful to include in the article, it may be helpful to first add them to the main reception section. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 03:32, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Plot inaccuracy about Padme

The plot summary previously read as follows (section bolded to draw attention to the part in question):

Passing through the Federation blockade, the ship is damaged in the crossfire, and its hyperdrive malfunctions. The ship lands for repairs on the outlying desert planet of Tatooine, situated beyond the Republic's jurisdiction. Qui-Gon, Jar Jar, astromech droid R2-D2, and Padmé—one of Queen Amidala's handmaidens—visit the settlement of Mos Espa to purchase a new part for their hyperdrive. They encounter a junk dealer, Watto, and his nine-year-old slave, Anakin Skywalker, a gifted pilot and engineer who has built a protocol droid, C-3PO.

This is not quite inaccurate, since it wasn't the Queen's handmaiden who went to Mos Espa, but the queen herself in disguise as her handmaiden. So I changed it to read as follows:

Passing through the Federation blockade, the ship is damaged in the crossfire, and its hyperdrive malfunctions. The ship lands for repairs on the outlying desert planet of Tatooine, situated beyond the Republic's jurisdiction. Qui-Gon, Jar Jar, astromech droid R2-D2, and Queen Padmé Amidala (in disguise as one of her own handmaidens) visit the settlement of Mos Espa to purchase a new part for their hyperdrive. They encounter a junk dealer, Watto, and his nine-year-old slave, Anakin Skywalker, a gifted pilot and engineer who has built a protocol droid, C-3PO.

Someone (a non-registered user) subsequently reverted the edit, with this justification: "Yes, it is correct that Padme was going disguised as one of her handmaidens. However, anyone watching the film for the first time (or reading this article for the first time) would not yet be aware of this until later in the movie. To divulge it this early would count as a spoiler."

I would like to argue for retaining the change. 1. Avoiding information simply because it is a potential spoiler can't be justified for an encyclopedia entry, since the plot summary is in essence already one huge spoiler, and by being factually accurate it is in the nature of an encyclopedia entry to be a plot spoiler. 2. The fact that it is Queen Padme in disguise as one of her handmaidens is already stated on the page Padmé Amidala (look under the section on The Phantom Menace). So stating it here is simply consistent with the information already stated elsewhere in Wikipedia.

If there are substantive arguments to not making this change, I would like to hear them here, otherwise I plan to reimplement it. Gregorytopov (talk) 04:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Update: My proposed change has been reimplemented by User:UpdateNerd, with reference to Wikipedia:Spoiler as appropriate justification. Gregorytopov (talk) 04:12, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Write to Legacy

Hello: Please, I need you to write the information that I searched for in the reliable sources:

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by SamuelPla82 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism

Edit: Thank you :)

Hi, someone has vandalised the page, changing the release date and cast. I tried to revert it all but I don't really know what I'm doing. Mod Help? 60.240.136.160 (talk) 10:30, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Actors

Just noticed that tonights changes by 63.146.250.131 are just wrong. Alan Rickman, Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz did not starr in Star Wars Episode I. The article was correct before... 185.198.228.148 (talk) 22:35, 17 October 2023 (UTC)