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IIRC, didn't the actual founder of the site quit a few years back out of frustration with the incumbent admins' rules-lawyering?

 

Yes, I, too revel in the ongoing dysfunction of a site still struggling to recover from the rule of a literal fascist admin and which is often relied upon by actual Star Wars creators.

...Come on, man.

 

On X i saw one of the adminds who is an omadmin Wookiepedia on X was on am unfollowing spree. A zinoist.

 

Going back to the one canon thing.
According to Pablo Hidalgo, the idea to disregard the EU for future movies was originally conceived up a few years before George sold the company, When word spread internally that he was writing his sequel treatments.

So even if George had made his movies, the continuity split may still have happened.

We all know George would have ignored the post-ROTJ EU anyways.

(I can’t post a source since this was back before he wiped his Twitter account)

 

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It had seemed, for a time, that continuity was headed into a disaster anyway when George thought Darth Talon was hot (er, "interesting?") and team her with Maul in future stuff.

Between that and the jokes about canonizing Detours -- which likely would have happened, because George liked to troll and the Wook religiously canonized everything he said -- it would have been a really weird continuity demise.

 

I was looking at the Wookiee articles for Computer Spikes, and if they're accurate, Computer Spikes have actually appeared more in canon now than they did in legends.

This is not counting non-narrative works, like source books.

 

George was never as fixated on 'canon' as we are. Thats one thing that I think gets forgotten in everything.

George always had a thing for Twi-Leks, never forget that image of Aalya with a bare breast exposed.

I also love that fact that we all just feel comfortable calling George by his first name despite the fact that the vast majority of us have never met him.

 

As far as I'm aware George had nothing to do with that Aayla painting. The image that captured his attention was this Jon Foster comic cover, because Jon Foster is awesome.

And speak for yourself, I've met George many times. He says hi btw.

 

While I've never met George, I can truthfully say I was in the same building with him once. Of course it was Celebration Orlando and thus it was a very very large building, but still.

 

Well not to brag, but I've been on the same planet as him since the day I was born.

 

Yep, that's me!

(pictured)

 

...okay is this a bit, or do you actually personally know George Lucas?

(I have to ask because - not a bit - my family actually lived on the same street as Aaron Allston for years, although I didn't know it was him at the time.)

 

Spoiler

it is a bit

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if I actually knew him I promise you would have heard about it many, many times by now

 

Do appearances and mentions of a planet also count as appearances and mentions of that planet's solar system, sector, etc.?

 

If I remember correctly from my time at the Wook... if the characters are in space outside the planet at some point, it's probably fair game for listing it as an appearance of the system. As for sector --- there needs to be a cutoff point somewhere, or else you'd also have to make everything an appearance of The Galaxy, The Universe, and even Space. So I think you would only list something as an appearance of the sector if the book takes care to mention what sector they're in.

For mentions, though, even the system itself would need to be explicitly mentioned. If Luke thinks about Tatooine, he's not thinking about the Tatoo system.

 

Any particular reason Abeloth is trending on Wook right now?

 

I'd assume some youtuber covered her again or something, she has a habit of sudden spikes in interest in my experience. She transcends basically anything else in those books in the fandom zeitgeist.

 

Wookiepeedia confuses me so. Canon or not canon, list of appearances, the ads, trying to find random characters.

 

The ads are the reason I don’t use it often. Although that’s more of a fandom problem than it is a wook problem. I am fine with sites running some ads it’s just if it gets in the way of the experience that is when I care

 

Same with the Fallout wiki, which is also a Fandom site. It's almost impossible to use on mobile because of the ads, and opening too many tabs with it causes the browser to lag out. It's a mess.

 

Not that I'm defending the ads, but... how are there people in the year 2024 not using adblock?

 

I barely use my laptop. iPhone doesn’t have Adblock as far as I am aware