Forum:SH:International editions

I noticed that, in the years following the creation of Wookieepedia, that there was a trend, maybe from the lack of Star Wars wiki in other languages at the time, for some users to edit articles and/or to create new articles altogether about international editions/editors of SW published books. I wanted to know the general feeling about this before maybe moving on to TC or CT.

The facts: We have around twenty articles dedicated to international editors, like J. M. Meulenhoff, those are mostly out of date, sometimes by a whole decade. Book articles, especially from 2000s, like Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, presents large sections dedicated to international editions (Editions and Cover gallery), while more recent books, like Lords of the Sith, are mostly free of mentions of internationals editions.

My opinion on the subject: Wookieepedia is an English wiki, and should be focus on English content. To list editors, editions or covers should be the work of editors on foreign SW wiki, otherwise it would 1) be extremely tedious to keep up to date and exhaustive, 2) require editors from others languages to come just to do it for proper sourcing, 3) a Pandora box that could flood Wookieepedia with irrelevant content if left unchecked (yes, I know, unlikely to ever happen). I mean if we were to figure all editions, in all languages, can you imagine the amount of work and place this would take? And for what? How does that help the general purpose of Wookieepedia?

As comparaison, it can be noted that on Wikipedia, for example, for the first volume of Harry Potter, only UK, US and CA editions are listed. Also, there is a whole article that covers the topic of Harry Potter translation, it's quite large, and all that without covering the details of editions, just translators and title translation. For a book like War and Peace (Russian novel), only English translations are listed.

Exception: Original art from international covers could still be figured on the articles, since its supposedly authorized by Lucasfilm (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), and is original content in itself.

Layout Guide/Out-of-universe: For reference, the decision from a 2013 CT about published narrative works layout doesn't figure neither Editions nor Cover gallery sections.

In conclusion, my position is to cut down this type of content. What do you think? -- NanoLuuke Cloning facility 09:58, February 19, 2020 (UTC)