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.

When you vote, please add your vote to the vote total at the Current Ranking section, and make the necessary changes.

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, December 3.

Please add new nominations at the bottom of the page.

Current Rankings

 * 1) Obi-Wan Kenobi (5)
 * 2) Potentium / C-3PO / Rank Insignia of the Rebel Alliance / List of novels by release date (3)
 * 3) Novels (all of them) (2)
 * 4) Gavin Darklighter / Viqi Shesh (1)

Obi-Wan Kenobi

 * Nominated November 13, 2006; needs 6 votes by December 4, 2006

Support
 * 1)  - breathesgelatin Talk 09:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) -Solus 21:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Nighthawk leader 22:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 20:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Lytcha Lauma 22:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * Oh dear. This is a featured article but it's in need of major cleanup and editing nonetheless; especially since he's such a major character.  - breathesgelatin Talk 09:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I concur -Solus 21:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This is still good enough for its FA status, but it can still really be improved -Nighthawk leader 22:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Potentium

 * Nominated November 19, 2006; needs 4 votes by December 3, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Nighthawk leader 08:08, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2)  Orange_lightsaber  Villip 20:28, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Jasca Ducato 21:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Rank Insignia of the Rebel Alliance

 * ''Nominated November 29, 2006, needs 4 votes by December 13, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) BigGuy219 02:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) N ighthawk L eader   [Holonet] 21:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Drake Colin Rene 23:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * This is just awful and probably inaccurate. While I realize Dr. Saxton's theories are considered 'fanon,' surely we've seen at least a few insignia to develop something better than this. BigGuy219 02:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Even if it doesn't need an Improvement drive, it should still get some attention. BigGuy if you'd like, I could give you a hand coming up with a new theory on what the rank insignia should be. Drake Colin Rene 23:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think we need a theory. I think we just need to go through the ones actually seen on screen and identify who was wearing them and what their rank is. Canon. Not fanon. Even if incomplete.BigGuy219 04:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

C-3PO

 * ''Nominated November 29, 2006, needs 4 votes by December 13, 2006

Support
 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Jorrel Fraajic 20:38, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Ozzel 19:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * The level of detail here is saddening. A measly 1 paragraph on the entire Vong War. The quality of writing is not high at all. It sounds like Han shot Threepio from reading the article. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed... YVW needs to be way updated and expanded. Jorrel Fraajic 20:38, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Just noting that this has been on improvement drive a couple of times already (most recently in June). I don't think that precludes us putting it on IDRIVE again, but I think if we do him on again, we really need to get it together this time! Could use more on the Droids comics and cartoons as well as YVW.  - breathesgelatin Talk 05:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well that's because I wasn't helping. Kidding, of course. ;-) Yes, we should get our act together. Also, let's not even forget about what's going to be the most pain of updating all our OT main characters: Marvel.  Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 05:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Gavin Darklighter

 * ''Nominated November 29, 2006, needs two votes by December 6, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Barely has 2 total pages of content in biography. TWO PAGES??!!! The entire article is very saddening in its lack of detail. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Viqi Shesh

 * ''Nominated November 29, 2006, needs two votes by December 6, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Once again, for all the annoyance she caused in the NJO, she really deserves longer than what she's got. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Also has several noticeable redlinks and a questionable infobox usage. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 04:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

List of novels by release date

 * Nominated December 1, 2006; needs 4 votes by December 15, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Apprentice_Anakin 05:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) mojo1701a 01:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) N ighthawk L eader    21:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I feel this page is an incredibly critical article for fast information regarding every Star Wars novel, and it didn't even exist an hour ago. I got it started. How could this not have been worked on yet? --Apprentice_Anakin 05:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Novels (all of them)

 * Nominated December 1, 2006; needs 4 votes by December 15, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Apprentice_Anakin 06:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) mojo1701a 01:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would like to see full plot descriptions for each adult novel, describing in semi-detail what exactly happened. An actual entire summary (most books now just contain what's written on the back cover). I know there's a lot of books that I haven't read in a few years, and I can't remember a thing that happens in them. I'd love to be able to read a story description that details what went on - therefore it would contain 'spoilers' for that novel. It would really add a lot of important content and information that I believe is vital. --Apprentice_Anakin 06:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure this is really a workable Improvement Drive project; an I-Drive project is supposed to be limited enough that significant progress can be made in a week. This is a fairly overwhelming project. I suggest that you check out Published Works Improvement Project, which basically aims to do what you are talking about.  - breathesgelatin Talk 06:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)