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"I don't think apples are good, but what do I know, I refuse to eat apples."

 

Perhaps I did, I have just never gotten along with Wookieepedia, even though that was where I started with wikis.

 

Or maybe they just never got on with you?

 

To be fair, I have as much of a beef with Zeta as anyone on these forums, and I'm still inclined to agree that Wookieepedia is not at all a very welcoming environment.

 

I really like the Wook as a resource, but in my limited experience attempting to help edit a couple articles (years ago), they were total *******s. Rude. Abusive even. Wasn't worth it.

I should look up that exchange and post it here.

 

Honestly, it never has been...

 

I'd be fully interested in hearing more about the history of Wook.

 

I am a little fickle about ship naming conventions, but I still don't understand how Wookieepedia could abandon like thirty years of the Praetor-class Star Battlecruiser being referred to as such, all because a new ship classification system suddenly comes along and utilizes a different term for the new larger subclass, even when the ship classification system is never stated to be an end all and be all that was supposed to replace any of the previously established terms, and the next source went right back to the old term. Wookieepedia is so inconsistent, they have pretty much standardized the Kuati Star Battlecruisers to the Anaxes War College System term battlecruiser, but the Kuati Star Dreadnoughts are completely inconsistent, with the Executor-class still being referred to as a Star Dreadnought while the Sovereign-class hasn't been allowed to reflect either naming convention. After years of being completely ignored, I gave up questioning them by the time this had transpired.

 

In its defense, it was different back in the beginning. I wasn't around at the inception, but I used to edit quite a bit in the first year or two. It was a much more chill environment when everything was up for grabs and the simplest things we now take for granted like article naming conventions were being hammered out. It probably sounds ridiculous, and it might just be nostalgia talking, but it genuinely felt like everyone was there for fun collaboration and for the love of the EU. But yeah, once gatekeepers were in place it didn't take long for the site culture to fossilize and decline.

 

Gatekeepers that I'm convinced were largely self-appointed, mind you. They made it such a damned chore to put anything up that I frankly gave up; my life was going badly enough at that time without having what had been a rather enjoyable pastime spoiled by being made into an uphill struggle to get anything done.

 

In the beginning, there was darkness...and physical, uneditable encyclopedias...

 

Tell me more.

 

And then people forgot how to look up things on their own and instead asked a series of inane, attention-seeking questions...

 

Oh, no question.

Substitute "getting too busy with school at that time" and you'd precisely describe my experience. A lot of people seemed more interested in ego-stroking and making sure the "process" was followed over common sense than in generating content meaningful to the average user.

 

So I discovered today that one of my favorite "why does this exist" - and butt of internet humor in general - articles on the Wook, Unidentified man in green firing turret, has (finally?) been deleted. I can't help but feel a little like I've lost an old friend.

 

As long as Jon (farmer) is safe.

 

Sad day indeed.

 

First he's not in The Tales from Jabba's Palace, then he isn't allowed on Wookieepedia... where will this end?

 

Hi all! Casual Wooki editor here. Happy to see that some Wooki editors are also here, maxrespect to you all!


I did create some pages, provide some fixups where necessary (based on newly uncovered canon information), etc. TBH, I don't feel unwelcomed on Wooki. But of course YMMV.

(My handle on Wooki is exactly the same as my nickname here.)

 

Don't say it out loud, we must remain hidden! The others might ambush us!

 

{{Quote|I'm about to let everyone in on the secret!|Kanan Jarrus|Spark of Rebellion}}

 

Speaking of which, I noticed a new user had posted a couple of AT-AT images that would go in the canon article, one of which being of the Rebels version. By the time I had clicked "open" on the article to see where they were put, one of the "established" users had already reverted and removed the images. Very counterproductive given the amount of images the Legends article has...

 

*Sigh*
The number of images per article should be in balance with the amount of text. Currently, the canon AT-AT article has too little text to support that many pics. An article is first and foremost made up of text--with occasional pictures. Otherwise,it's an image gallery with occasional commentaries. Must you guys take every chance you get to lash out at WP? By the way, does this thread serve any other purpose?

 

Believe me, Lelal, if Wookieepedia hadn't earned it, we wouldn't be saying it.

 

That's not the point. There are Wookieepedians here, like me, who feel at home. I like being here with you guys, except of course when you keep lashing out on some other group I'm also part of. It definitely isn't friendly.