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Elitist? Bah humbug.

 

Articles don't get tweaked if they don't need tweaking. I recently did a HUGE Gorm the Dissolver article almost from scratch, and because I took the time to look for typos, bad formatting, links, and so on, it's barely been touched. It's been up a week and has only had one change since I finished with it. And that was, literally, a single letter.

 

I'm slowly adding ships, mainly from Black Fleet Crisis at the moment. Intimidator is up, finally. I'm debating what to say for Pride of Yetheva, whether to just copy most of the text or just redirect to Intimidator.

Likely plan to start with the X-Wing books next.

 

Good stuff. Keep up the good work.

Btw, if you want to use the same text for PoY, I'd at least change it up slightly so that it doesn't come off as a direct copy.

 

Articles don't get tweaked if they don't need tweaking.

Couldn't have said it better myself, CooperTFN.

Remember, the better quality article you produce by yourself, the less others will have to clean it up, and the more respect you will gain as a contributer.

 

I have to agree with the aboves. I've recently leafed through the Essential Guides that I have, and I was surprised to see such miniscule articles for ships such as the I-7 Howlrunner and the Havoc. They were pretty meager, at only a few sentences each, but now I have the jacked up to about a page.

I've got a few more in mind that could use a total overhaul as well.

 

No First Battle of Borleias? I'll have to correct that tonight! as well as the ships involved.

 

As long as you categorize them, I'll be content.

 

I've just been borrowint the formatting from other articles for the ships to save time. Keeps it more consistant, too.

I also learned the correct way to spell Yevetha today, when I had to go back and fix several articles worth of my misspelling

 

...How did you spell it before?

Wookieepedia has done what many other things could not get me to do: I bought the NEGtC - just so I could use it to help fix up the site. I have no life.

 

I know the feeling - I'm having scanner issues and my discovery of Wookieepedia is making me want to just ditch my driver-challenged three-year-old cheapie scanner and get a new one.

Not to mention, well...

 

Its amazing, I LOVE contributing to it. The NEATEST thing about it is...it was started ON MY BIRTHDAY. March 4th WOOT! Cracks me up everytime i view the site. Its like it was made 4 me.

 

Your telling me there's no elitism? Talk to Imperiallus or whatever his name is.

Everything I do is not good enough for him, and he is even degrading me calling my articles awful out in the open for people to see.

 

It's called honesty. You know, this wouldn't be a problem if you just started looking at how other pages are formatted.

 

Then can I be honest and call you an arrogant pompous jerk?

 

I would suggest you read the Help: editing style guide before you do anything else... I've seen some of yours, and frankly, they suck in regards to formatting. Plus there are frequent breaks in grammar, and the writing is generally bad.

 

Petty much?

And for the record, I do my work knowing that someone else might re-edit it or add to it or whatever. I don't really mind, because I know that I put it there, which is good enough for me.

 

The writing is generally bad? Show me these great other updates on here.

The Wiki style is appaling for any good writing ot even be achieved. You have a super restrictive style of format, followed by past-tense when its not even needed. Plus, you have 13-year olds updating, I don't see how you can say that mine, a Journalist degree from Lebanon Valley College with an Associate's Degree and a Minor in American Literature can say that it is bad writing compared to some of the garbage found on there.

I mean, hey, StarWars EU aint great literature to begin with, its about six notches down from normal literature, and then you have twelve year olds writing on it on a message-board style with a limiting format, and you want to call mine bad, because I don't follow a degenerative format?

HA!

 

Have you taken a look at the Palpatine page, lately?

 

And that wasn't written by one person, and I still wouldn't call it literature or great writing. How can an encylopedia, with a limited format to begin with, be considered great writing?

 

Oh, I dunno. Maybe if you had an imagination...

 

So, for writing to be good, I have to imagine?

What do I have to imagine? That the bad stuff is good?

Should I do that with real life? Should I imagine the fecal matter my dog releases in the yard as gold? Would I profit then?


I don't get your point/comment at all.

 

How exactly is our style of format restrictive?

And why do you expect to be treated differently from other users simply because you have a degree in journalism? Truth to be told, most of those "13-year olds" make less mistakes than you, and are generally good contributors.

 

Normally I would be pretty pissed off about that sort of comment. But in this instance, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

There's a reason why articles like the Palpatine one are considered "good". It's because they're written, by one person or several, in a way that grabs the reader's attention and provides a lot of useful information.

 

I just find it singling out and elitism. They've made just as many mistakes, why don't you add them to your users to watch?

I've even gone out and helped remove vandalism and such. Yet, I still get singled out, and treated like none of my updates are any good. When do you start calling others stuff awful and degrade them as you have me? Maybe its not much, but on a worldwide public viewspace, I find it rude and detrimental. You say you don't want POVs in the Wiki stuff, yet, there is a huge POV right there.

If you want me to give opinions, I'll do my little touch-ups on yours and say, "this was awful", because that can be my opinion of it. Awful is defined by the viewer, not the writer.