Forum:CT Archive/Organizing Fact Files

This CT is designed to discuss the way our articles organize issues of The Official Star Wars Fact File within Source lists. Some quick background, the European-sold Fact Files were published on a somewhat weekly basis from Dec 27, 2001 through 2005, for 140 issues before the series ended. Due to the nature in which the Fact Files were released, they were designed to be collected and broken up by individual subject; so, as a result separate issues were combined and intermingled, pretty much destroying any semblance of organization by publication date.

Currently, it is Wookieepedia's practice for users to do their best to organize Fact File issues among Source lists that contain many other published items. The problem is, while some Fact File issues can be roughly nailed down to a year between 2002 and 2005 as to when they were released, it seems that no one really knows when any issue was specifically published. So, this creates some serious difficulty and confusion for trying to organize these Source lists, which, according to Wookieepedia's Layout Guide, are meant to be organized by real-world publication date. Indeed, more or less we're just guessing where they should be placed, while others just put them at the end of the Source list with little alternative, similar to Databank entries. There's no rhyme or reason to how we're organizing these Fact Files and, for articles that have many sources, often published so close to one another, organization becomes near impossible.

Rather, I thought about what it would mean to use a Source list subsection to better organize Fact Files within articles. This would be similar to how some articles handle Non-canon appearances. For example, the Fact File subsection would look something like this:

The Official Star Wars Fact File


Instead of putting this thing right to vote, I thought we could discuss this. Like it? Dislike it? Think it can be improved somehow? Let yourself be heard. Toprawa and Ralltiir 01:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)