User talk:SparqMan

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Galactic economy
what planes do u have for this artical. I am looking forward fot this artical. - Unsigned comment by Srini.
 * I'm not entirely sure yet. It would be good to look at the complete lack of inflation noted by Curtis Saxton (prices from the KOTOR era and late New Republic era seem roughly the same), the necessity of specialized planetary exports and/or output specialization, how banks and other financial institutions operated across planets, as well as the role of credits (across governments) and other forms of currency. I'll write a few paragraphs now and see where it goes. --SparqMan 05:59, 17 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Politicians
Thank you Sparq for moving all these articles under Category:Political characters to the more proper Category:Politicians. Sorry I haven't had much time to move them myself. -- Riffsyphon1024 20:00, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Category change
Are you planning to replace Category:Imperial characters with Category:Galactic Empire people? If so, let me know how I can help. -- SFH 20:56, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Already completed, but thank you. --SparqMan 21:14, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Pit Droid Award of Diligence


The Old Republic characters category was one that needed to be cleaned out (given a Wikienema you might say), but nobody could be bothered to do it. For your as yet ongoing work in this category, I present you with the Pit Droid Award of Diligence. --MarcK [talk] 05:02, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikienema, way to go! XD -- Riffsyphon1024 05:06, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Your Rogue Squadron listing
Sparqman, a search led me to your Rogue Squadron list page. I'm the guy who created the first list on the SWFA website. I recently took the page down, but I am just days away from posting an all-new one. My original list included a lot of stuff invented by me. One of the characters (Jarras Starfire) is even from a friend's fan fiction story. I'm not sending this to correct you, but I didn't want some of it being put online as if it were official.

As I said, my latest Rogues roster will be online very soon, so look for it, here. JMM 16:57, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC) Brilliant! I hope you don't mind my outright theft and conversion into an article. --SparqMan 20:40, 2 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, JMM. I was using a few lists that I found online to compile the big one. Once complete, I was going to scrub it through the fact checking on names that I didn't recognize and may have slipped in as fanon. --SparqMan 17:08, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * As promised, here's my roster of Rogue Squadron pilots, this time with a minimum of speculation: http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/swfa/rogueroster.html --JMM 20:24, 2 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Waywa Fybot?
What about that article makes it qualify for Cleanup? Thanos6 22:17, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * NPOV ("unfortunately"), general word choice, conjunctions, etc. --SparqMan 22:26, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * All right, how's it look now? Thanos6 04:09, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Just wanted to offer my thanks in helping to clean up the Clone Wars page. Even though I had worked on it for two and a half hours, I knew that it wasn't as great as I wanted it to be.TIEPilot051999 02:29, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Dark Forces characters
The Category:Dark Forces characters seems extraneous to me. Is it possible to delete it? Kuralyov 21:30, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree, but some users may like it or prefer it to one of those character-tables (like the Revan one that popped up a little bit ago). You can nominate the category for deletion to get some discussion on it. --SparqMan 21:31, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Sorry
I was trying to make my created charcter go in the wrong place. I'm new at this but where can I put my charcter? Oh I have a suggestion there should be a section for users to make therw own fan creations.
 * There are plenty of websites where you can share your fan creations, but this is not one of them. --SparqMan 21:15, 26 Nov 2005 (UTC)

hi
r u gay? i think ur cute & i would totally date you. --
 * Scored! ;-) --Azizlight 02:13, 28 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Seriously! One of two ways to read that:
 * Are you gay? If so, I would totally date you. --
 * Are you gay? If not, I would totally date you. --

--SparqMan 06:46, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC) Hey, what about me? I want my chance. ;) Thanos6 06:56, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok... -- Riffsyphon1024 06:54, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Admin meeting
I'd like to call an admin meeting. Please check out the discussion. Thanks. WhiteBoy 07:30, 28 Nov 2005 (UTC)

VFD interruption - oops
Sorry I put the "delete" over top of your "vfd" on Kristin Martin -- when I saw the article, the VFD had been removed by 128.226.221.37, so I thought it was fair game for a speedy delete. &mdash; Silly Dan 00:26, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * No worries. See your talk page. --SparqMan 06:45, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Code Q
Do you know of some special way to include an image that's not in the database on an article page? I've seen a couple User pages with personal images that're hosted elsewhere, but I can't get it to work on mine. CooperTFN 06:46, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

A break
While editing a paper for class, I started putting brackets around a year. After seeing what I'd done (Serious pressure for the company go public began internally shortly after the formation of Diageo PLC in 1998 ), I realize that I need to moderate my Wiki time. Yikes! --SparqMan 20:25, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * I've run into the same problem while browsing the news online. "What the heck?  That doesn't make sense!  Where are the sources?  Revert to previous version!  Report vandalism!  Fanon tag! Argh!"  &mdash; Silly Dan  02:48, 3 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * Dude, I totally know what you mean. I was writting a paper for my Civil Rights class, and I kept trying to put links onto the case names. (Sigh)...two more weeks...two more weeks... -- SFH 03:07, 3 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Help

 * Sparqman, I'm trying to resolve a rather heated dispute on the Ship classification page. Unfortunately, I'm not very knowledgeable on this aspect of SW. Can you offer some assistance? See the Talk:Ship classification page. QuentinGeorge 02:22, 3 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * Further the request from 'SparqMan on my own talk page, I'll try to explain what I think the page should contain.
 * 1.) An introduction, noting the variety of classification systems used in the GFFA. This it has.
 * 2.) An outline of the "standard Imperial classification" system. This system (in its form as of about 1 ABY) is laid out in a clear-cut manner in the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook. There is no evidence beyond fanon speculation that this system is limited to "sector-scale" ships and fleets as opposed to larger "galactic-scale" ones, and no warrant for intruding into this system any specific designations that are not explicitly identified as a part of it: for instance, 600-900m frigates clearly exist, but (a.) these are anomalies according to this system, and (b.) it is utterly wrong to claim that the term "frigate" necessarily implies a small warship.
 * 3.) An outline of the "Star" system - necessary, but tricky; this cannot be based on anything more than canon evidence, which consists only of the empirical evidence of particular terms like "Star Destroyer" being applied to particular types of ships, with no overall context. While in OOU terms, several of these terms derive from SWTC, the relevant section of SWTC misrepresents real-world systems, ignores prior canon evidence, and slots a lot of poorly-analysed pictures into a framework of its own devising. Also, as fanon, it can have no place here.
 * 4.) An in-depth analysis of the overall linguistic/semantic meaning of all the terms used in canon.
 * 5.) A summary of the Empire at War terminology. This needs to be written.
 * 6.) A "Behind the Scenes" section. At least part of this should explain the categorical factual inaccuracies (both IU and OOU) in the highly influential system presented at SWTC.


 * In essence, I stand by my final edit. That said, I am pretty sure that my own edits are overly marked by my irritation when people add material that cannot be substantiated from canon. To proceed from here, I would suggest VT and myself should get together on IM: that way, we can work out what would be acceptable to both of us, which is what would be ideal for me. --McEwok 17:31, 4 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Sparqman, I ask that you please read the entire article, including the canon quotes that VT-16 and myself have provided. McEwok is lying here.  Don't take my word for it.  Just read the quotes.


 * There is no evidence beyond fanon speculation that this system is limited to "sector-scale" ships and fleets as opposed to larger "galactic-scale" ones'' HttE sourcebook says that this scale didn't cover Star Destroyers and had to be loosened to accomadate them, while the ROTS ICS makes mention of downscaled ships twice (once when discussing the Rendili Dreadnaught, another time when talking about Sienar's warships).


 * no warrant for intruding into this system any specific designations that are not explicitly identified as a part of it: for instance, 600-900m frigates clearly exist, but (a.) these are anomalies according to this system, and (b.) it is utterly wrong to claim that the term "frigate" necessarily implies a small warship This is easily explained by WEG's claim that different groups use their own classifications, and ROTS ICS's statement showing that the "standard" system used in RASB is downscaled.


 * An outline of the "Star" system - necessary, but tricky; this cannot be based on anything more than canon evidence, which consists only of the empirical evidence of particular terms like "Star Destroyer" being applied to particular types of ships, with no overall context. Look to the ITW quote. We can observe that Star Destroyer > Star Cruiser > Star Dreadnaught.  That's all that needs to be said in the article. JimRaynor55 17:55, 4 Dec 2005 (UTC)