Forum:SH Archive/Articles about Insider articles

Recently, our fellow users have started creating articles for each and every article from the recent Star Wars Insider issues - unlike the earlier ones, from which only significant IU-articles have been given their own page on the Wookieepedia. I am sure that many will not share my view, but I wonder - do we really need an article for each and every trivial interview like A Bounty Hunter's Babe!, Grievous Alarm: Matthew Wood and Revenge of the Binks or entirely OOU article like Empire Building, Where Science Meets... Fun! and Posters of Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back? It doesn't look like any of them will ever get beyond two sentences ( is an article from Star Wars Insider XXX. It discusses blah-blah-blah.), so why not merge them into articles for the issues themselves? Currently, the "Insider Issues" articles also only provide basic info: the publishing-related information, table of content (some with interlinks, some without 'em) and the Insider template.

Now, to those who would argue that it would diminish the wiki's quality and screw up perfect sourcing of the FAs and GAs - it doesn't have to be that way at all. All that would need to be done is a small change to InsiderCite template to make the article's title lead not to a separate page, but to a subheading on the page for the Magazine issue (assuming the merging would be performed accordingly, of course). The merge also wouldn't have to affect the actual IU stories (Odds, anyone?) and reference articles (The History of the Mandalorians ftw!), because that kind of articles would at the very least require an Appearances section to help ourselves with cross-referencing. So, only the Behind-the-scenes articles would be affected, because the short synopsis about them would be more useful on the page for the Magazine issue anyway.

Any thoughts, opinions? Should I start a proper CT thread, or does the number of the proposal's strong opposers overwhelm the number of supporters, in which case I shouldn't even waste our time trying?  Mauser  Comlink 06:41, December 22, 2009 (UTC)