Wookieepedia:Improvement drive

The improvement drive is a collaboration to improve existing articles to Featured article status.


 * /History - For past winners.
 * /Failed - For failed nominations.

Nomination and Voting
Articles to be improved can be nominated by registered users in the "nominations" section below, with an explanation of what work is needed. Please do not nominate articles involved in edit wars. Also, when nominating an article, please put IDRIVE on that article's page so as to inform any visitors of the page of its nomination.

Each Sunday, the article with the most support votes is chosen. Opposing votes are not counted. You can vote for as many articles as you like. Articles need two votes per week to stay on the list.

Note: It is considered somewhat rude not to help improving articles you've voted for.

Collaboration
Here are some best practices to use while working on an article selected for the improvement drive:
 * 1. Plan your contribution. After an article has been chosen, it is a good idea to post your ideas for additions, changes and corrections for the topic on the article's talk page. You can then choose some of the listed contributions to avoid overlapping work.
 * 2. Be quick. Use . Once you have planned your work, make your edits quickly, but carefully. Articles chosen for the drive are the likely subjects of many rapid edits. By entering and exiting EDIT mode quickly, you can avoid another user saving a new edit before you have completed your work. If your edit will be more lengthy, place the  tag at the top of the article, save the edit to make the tag appear, and then begin your work.

Nominations

 * The next project article is to be selected on Sunday November 27.

Please add new nominations at the bottom of the page.

Aayla Secura

 * Nominated November 26, 2005; needs 4 votes by December 10, 2005

Support:
 * 1) Master Starkeiller 19:10, 26 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) General Secura 06:41, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments:
 * This article needs a lot of work. --Master Starkeiller 19:10, 26 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Bespin

 * Nominated November 27, 2005; needs 2 votes by December 4, 2005

Support:
 * 1) Sikon [ Talk ] 17:30, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Ughm... just look at the History section. Do we really have that little to say? - Sikon [ Talk ] 17:30, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Exar Kun

 * ''Nominated November 29, 2005

Support:
 * 1) User:CantorOrion 19:39, 29 Nov 2005

Comments:
 * Look at this one, even Wikipedia has more info on him. --User:CantorOrion 19:39, 29 Nov 2005

History of the Jedi Order

 * Nominated November 5, 2005; needs 8 votes by December 3, 2005

Support:
 * 1) User:Srini
 * 2) SFH 16:42, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Angel Blue 451
 * 4) AngelQueen 22:55, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Sikon [ Talk ] 13:16, 22 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Locutus 8:57, 24 Nov 2005 (UTC?)
 * 7) King2006 10:47, 30 Nov 2005 (IST?)

Mara Jade Skywalker

 * Nominated November 7, 2005; needs 8 votes by December 5, 2005

Support Comments
 * 1) DarthMaul431 20:55, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) MarcK 01:20, 13 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Kuralyov 21:55, 17 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) AngelQueen 23:01, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Divinity 14:55, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Dark Lord Revan 20:38 23 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * The section of her involvement in the Vong war is reduced to a paragraph, no information on the Dark Nest Trilogy at all. DarthMaul431 20:55, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * shes an importent character, featured throughout the new jedi order series, but its reduced to a small amount of text. i think theres alot 2 be done ere. (Jedi Dude)

Clone Wars

 * Nominated 15 November, 2005; needs 8 votes by December 22, 2005

Support Comments
 * 1) MyNz 18:50, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) --MarcK [talk] 06:01, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) WhiteBoy 21:38, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) SFH 15:47, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) AngelQueen 23:01, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) TIEPilot051999 04:00, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Adamwankenobi 04:28, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * The state of this article is a disgrace to the Star Wars Wiki! Not a single section of it talks about the history of the war! We just have one huge list of battles and missions. It tells us nothing on the origins of the war, the campaigns, the end of the war and the aftermath. I hope you are all ashamed of yourselves for the state of this article! MyNz 18:50, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Bit of an overreaction, but I agree. --MarcK [talk] 06:01, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Definite drama there, but nevertheless, this article should be better. WhiteBoy 21:38, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * This may be beating a dead horse, but that was a bit of overreaction...Doesn't mean he's wrong. -- SFH 15:47, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Since the Clone Wars covers many battles and campaigns. Why not combine all the battles that took place during the conflict and use it to create the article? I have been working on it in my Microsoft Office Word 2003. It's really long. Would there be any way to email my work to one of the administrators? MyNz 13:20, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, a summary of every single battle would be fairly counterproductive in an article like this; that's what the specific battle pages are for. Rather, it would be better to look at the overall scope of the war: what started it, major events, how it ended, etc. --MarcK [talk] 03:45, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you mean like on the Great Hyperspace War, the Great Sith War and the Yuuzhan Vong War articles? Probably, we should aim to get this article something like the above. An advantage is that we have lots of pictures on the Clone Wars. MyNz 19:48, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * One must note that a good portion of the current article was copied from Wikipedia and thus wookified. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:43, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I just spent the past two and a half hours reworking the article. I know it wasn't the current improvement drive, but hey. At least when it BECOMES the new improvement drive, there's more to work with.TIEPilot051999 21:07, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * But where's the list of major battles now? -- Riffsyphon1024 21:18, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally, I didn't feel that it was needed. Still, I can put it back if you really want it there.TIEPilot051999 21:21, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * There. Put it back.TIEPilot051999 21:24, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I was going to say that there is a larger chance that when someone searchs for the battles of the Clone Wars, that they won't find the List of battles immediately, and then they would have to go all the way down just to find it. -- Riffsyphon1024 21:26, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. And I understand why we need the "cleanup" thing there, but can we get rid of the "We're Doomed" tag now? Even though it still needs work, I don't think it needs THAT much work.TIEPilot051999 21:30, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Why not put the list of battles and the list of appearances and sources on other pages? This article should concentrate on documenting the war rather than on lists.MyNz 18:47, 23 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Well I hope you don't attempt to cover each battle individually in the article as previously planned or that would make this extremely large and unnecessary, more so than a list of those battles, and there are alot. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:24, 23 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * If we do succeed in improving the Clone Wars articles, then our next target will be the Galactic Civil War article. We should apply the same tactics that we did on the Clone Wars. It only covers the Original Trilogy and none of the Expanded Universe including the Thrawn Campaign and Operation Shadow Hand. We also have much to cover on the Clone Wars aticles: Dreadnaghts of Rendili and the Outer Rim Sieges.
 * In that case, the most notable events and battles of the Clone Wars can be detailed here, outside their articles. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:00, 24 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * If this program on the Clone Wars article works? Should we try it on the Galactic Civil War and Yuuzhan Vong War articles? MyNz 20:46, 25 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Now, that we have finished with the Clone Wars article, should we move on to the Galactic Civil War article. Not much information on Expanded Universe events. That article could be a lot better if we include the major events like we did on the Clone Wars article. MyNz 12:41, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna get started on that later this week. I'll need some help, though.

Galactic Civil War

 * Nominated November 24, 2005; needs 4 votes by December 8, 2005

Support Comments
 * 1) TIEPilot051999 19:03, 24 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Dark Lord Revan 20:39 23 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) MyNz 22:01, 25 Nov 2005 (UCT)
 * Well, we got the Clone Wars page up to standard. Let's see if we can do the same with this.TIEPilot051999 19:03, 24 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Good idea, current article has no reference to important campaigns such as the First Battle of Yavin 4, Battle of Bakura, Bacta War, Thrawn Campaign, Operation Shadow Hand, destruction of Carida, Maw Installation, Yevethan Purge and the Caamas Document. Then, we'll move on to the Yuuzhan Vong War. MyNz 22:05, 25 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * Rather odd to nominate an article that already underwent an Improvement Drive... - Sikon [ Talk ] 13:19, 27 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, for one thing, I didn't really know that. For another, compared to the work I and others did on the Clone Wars page, I don't think it holds up to snuff. And like MyNz said, we could probably bring it up to the level that the Clone Wars page is.TIEPilot051999 00:50, 28 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * I have an idea! Why not let's do what we did to the Clone Wars article. If we work together to improve the artiVle, it would be fairly easy. It really was easy editing the Clone Wars article so it might be the same with the Galactic Civil War one. MyNz 7:49, 28 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Delta Squad

 * Nominated November 24, 2005; needs 2 votes by December 1, 2005

Support
 * 1) Dark Lord Revan 15:40 Nov 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) TIEPilot051999 00:57, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Tam 08:07, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * The only reason I'm not voting "Support" is that it's considered rude to vote for articles you have no intention of helping with, so I'm ineligible. All I know about these guys is that they are the main characters in a videogame I've never played, and two novels I haven't read, so I'm convinced Wookieepedia's Fandalorians can fix this guy up.  &mdash; Silly Dan  02:27, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Now we have less to edit, I added the last two 'levels' in the video game-Revan 07:40, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Rokur Gepta

 * Nominated November 28, 2005; needs 2 votes by December 5, 2005

Support
 * 1) TIEPilot051999 00:45, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * Not to toot my own horn too much, but I respectfully submit that it's been improved. ;) Thanos6 07:03, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know that. *grumble* There are a few redlinks, though...TIEPilot051999 15:27, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Lightsaber_combat

 * Nominated November 29, 2005

Support
 * 1) Geekmasterflash 2:15, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * I found some serious problems with Lightsaber combat forms, namely lack of sources and ambigious connections. Such as Cin Drallig being a master of Form II among others. ;) Geekmasterflash 02:20, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * What are the "others? ;-) KEJ 16:52, 1 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * No sources on the linked articles, any of them. Form V mastery claiming to draw on emotion, but no source given, pretty much alot of sourceless links, with questionable canoncity, perhaps the actual lightsaber combat page was the wrong thing to elect, it just seemed simpler than doing each combat form individually. Geekmasterflash 16:56, 1 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * Bad source on the main page: I own Star Wars Insider #68, but I can find nothing on lightsaber combat forms. Geekmasterflash 17:09, 1 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Darth Vader's armor

 * Nominated November 29, 2005

Support
 * 1) Knightfall 23:46, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Geekmasterflash 23:49, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * Well, now that this article has actually been put up, I think it needs some substantial editing and decent additions to get it up to the quality that the subject deserves.--Knightfall 23:46, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)


 * I just wrote what I knew, I agree that it needs alot of work. Geekmasterflash 23:53, 29 Nov 2005 (UTC)