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June 14, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
February 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
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July 21, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 2, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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September 30, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
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Insert a link for Hayden Christensen

Hi, the main article is locked for other unknown editors.Please insert the symbols [[]] for Hayden Christensen as a link to the infobox about Darth Vader. Yours sincerely.

Non-defining categories

This article has been attracting some highly questionable categories lately. In line with WP:OVERCAT, I have removed some of the sillier ones, but they start creeping back in. The categories listed below are not suitable as they are Non-defining characteristics of Darth Vader. Yes, young Anakin built a podracer in Episode I, but Vader has never been described as "Dark Lord of the Sith and aerospace engineer". Same goes for the other categories.

"Categorization by non-defining characteristics should be avoided." - WP:NONDEFINING

Many of these nonsequitur categories get added to other Star Wars character articles too. I was going to call it "cruft", but I remembered it's not allowed any more in case someone's feelings get hurt, so I'll just go with WP:TOOMUCH. Please stop adding them. Thanks. Cnbrb (talk) 09:34, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What?

I made an edit recently that changed the misspelling of anakin and the use of the name 'Starkiller" to the correct "skywalker", and it has been changed back. Can whoever did it justify? Shrekxy 64. 21:00, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not the reverter, but I can comment on the likely reason. Various early drafts of the first film had the characters be named Luke and Annikin Starkiller, rather than their names in the films themselves. These drafts can have the characters be noticeably distinct from their final incarnations (e.g. at one point Luke was an old general), so I'd get the distinction intended if so.

Still, given that the text doesn't really establish what/who Annikin or Starkiller are at that point, I think the sentence could probably use some rewriting for clarity. Alternatively, I'm leaning towards it being redundant to what's already in the "Concept and writing", so I wouldn't be opposed to removing it (and probably stuffing the "Lucas has said..." sentence at the end of Concept's second paragraph). I'll probably make that change myself shortly. – The Millionth One (talk) (contribs) 23:02, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the explanation. I wouldn't mind it's removal either, but I would wait to see what some other editors say. Shrekxy 64. 18:47, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This page is inaccurate to Darth Vader

A good amount of this talks about Anakin Skywaker. Under full name, Occupation, affiliations. It includes things about Anakin Skywaker. Although it's confusing, Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are 2 separate people. You can't count them as the same CaptainFishie (talk) 09:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Whilst I agree with you that the two characters are fundamentally different individuals, the consensus on Wikipedia has been, for the longest time, to keep the two characters in the same article space. It has been discussed and voted upon multiple times (as can be seen in the Archives). --Jasca Ducato (talk | contributions) 15:50, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And, at the end of the day, they are the same entity, with the same past, etc. Shrekxy 64. 21:18, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]