Forum:CT Archive/Duels (second discussion)

I have noticed some inconsistency in whether a duel is included in a larger battle's article, or whether it gets its own article. Since the Duel infobox was invented, I don't believe we have made specific policies on it. (if we have tell me now and disregard the rest of my statements). In reviewing Trash compactor history, I see that they merged Duel on the Invisible Hand with Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars), but they left First Duel on the Anakin Solo is separate from the Battle of Kashyyyk (Second Galactic Civil War) with a "Main article link" in the duel section of the battle article. There are many other examples of this (Movie and TV battles tend to keep he duel in the larger battle articles, whereas Novels, KOTOR comics, TOR, and Star Wars: Republic comics tend to separate them).

I propose that we allow duels to have their own pages even when they are part of a larger battle. This is for the same reason that the Duel infobox template was created in the first place: They are important, (fairly) rare events unique to the Star Wars Universe and they hold a special place in all our hearts. Furthermore, it would be nice to be able to see all the lightsaber battle chronologically by using the "next" and "previous" links in the Duel infoboxes. If they're merged in with battles, it makes that hard. I love to be able to go from one Dark Lord of the Sith to another in succession with the links at the bottom of their pages. Lets do that for Duels.

There is already a "Conflict" line to list the battles that they are part of. Now, this would be a special case (like keeping "Darth" in titles) concerning (for the most part) force user vs force user using lightsabers, so it wont lead to every fist fight or other little part of a battle having its own article. I know in this Merge-happy climate we have right now this may not be popular with some people. But it would be useful in navigating the various lightsaber duels throughout history and allow us to give blow by blow details of duels (especially ones in novels) without cluttering up battle pages.

Whatever is decided, lets make it consistent.

Duels can have their own pages

 * 1) IthinkIwannaLeia  WaddaUthink?  20:38, 17 May 2009 (UTC)