Wookieepedia:Trash compactor/Vette's padded jacket

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Recently, the Trash Compactor nomination for Ithorian mariner's loose wrap closed with a consensus to keep. Embedded in this is the precedent to keep most (if not all) of the individual armor and weapon items from Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR), a precedent I agree with for the most part. However, with other gear, that intended for specific companion characters, things are different. This includes such items as Vette's padded jacket, Vette's slicing boots, and Vette's slicing pants. For these, I think there is enough difference to warrant a separate nomination.

Some background on these items: When you get companion characters in SWTOR, they usually come equipped with items named for them: "Bowdaar's heavy boots," "Kaliyo's padded bracers." These are unique items to the companion characters. During the game, you receive upgrades for these items as rewards for normal quests. Companion-named gear is never available from in-game vendors, and it cannot be equipped to anyone but the companion for whom it is named.

Because of this, I feel that these objects should be treated as non-notable personal items and deleted. Keeping these items as notable would establish precedent for making articles for literally every item of clothing any character in Star Wars wears ever. Han Solo's shirt, Luke Skywalker's floppy hat, Gorneesh's eyepatch, Crix Madine's uniform&mdash;you get the idea. There are certainly cases where personal gear is notable, like with individually crated items like lightsabers, say. But there is no evidence of that here. These just appear to be things the companions happened to be wearing when they joined you and later (game mechanics) rewards for questing.

To anticipate one of the arguments made for keeping the Ithorian mariner's wraps (an item that, in contrast, is mass-produced in-universe and not unique to one specific character): yes, the Internet is not running out of space, and yes, this wiki has a low notability threshold for many things. However, our editorial capacity does have a limit, and opening the door to trivial, mundane clothing items that a character wears is a slippery slope, in my opinion.

Delete

 * 1) Per above. ~ Savage BOB sig.png 13:13, March 13, 2012 (UTC)