Wookieepedia:Trash compactor/CT-8771 through CT-8909

CT-8771 through CT-8909
See the big list of troopers at Cato Neimoidia Garrison. They all say pretty much the same thing. The entire list is based on a single line in Order 66: Destroy All Jedi: "Multiple laser hits sent [Plo] Koon's Jedi starfighter plunging through the heart of the bridge city, destroying a clone staging area (see casualty reports labeled CT-8770 through CT-8910)." Upon reading that, some editors apparently felt that every clone in that set was killed in the crash. There are a number of problems with this assumption:
 * 1) Saying "Casaulty reports CT-8770 through CT-8910" doesn't mean every clone from 8770 to 8910. It just means every report between those numbers. If CT-8834 survived miraculously, it would still be a finite, definable set of casualty reports.
 * 2) The entire notion of the article is that clone troopers are solely grouped with their numbers. That isn't always the case though: Bogey Squad has a wide range of numbers. So does Delta Squad, and we know they were all decanted together.
 * 3) We don't know if they were all in the theater at the time. What if CT-8804 got shot a few days earlier or in a prior campaign, and was already dead? It's entirely possible, but our article definitively states that he was killed in this specific incident. In fact, after all of these articles were written, that actually happened. CT-8867, CT-8868, and CT-8869 were included in Routine Valor. Their articles were changed to reflect that no, actually, they didn't die on Cato Neimoidia. I guess we got that one wrong, guys. Our bad! But did we go back and say "Hey wait, maybe creating 130 articles with such little basis was a bad idea?" No, we used that to assume that the unit in Routine Valor was the same one that Plo Koon ran his ship into.
 * 4) Being a casualty does not necessarily mean being killed. So that's another big assumption we made 130 times in a row.
 * 5) See Talk:Cato Neimoidia Garrison for other people questioning the existence of this set of articles.

This TC would not cover CT-8770 or CT-8910, as they were mentioned by name. It would also not cover CT-8867, CT-8868, and CT-8869. It would only cover every clone trooper from CT-87771 to CT-8866, and every clone trooper from CT-8870 to CT-8909. 3 of them were in Routine Valor, so they are not included. So I suppose the title of this AfD is somewhat misleading. -LtNOWIS 07:58, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) Per my own nomination. -LtNOWIS 07:58, 2 May 2008 (UTC)