Wookieepedia talk:Quote of the Day/In-Universe

Voting format
Don't we need a better voting format? KEJ 21:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, we do. How about each quote nominated is put under its own ==title== tag, for clarity? And what's with all the gratuituous Kyle Katarn quotes, by the way? --Thetoastman 03:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

In fact, how about something like this? The titles system is a little weak, but I can't think of a better way. Comments? Suggestions? Violent, soul-bashing criticism? --Thetoastman 03:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, beaten to the punch by the actual page! --Thetoastman 04:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Updating
So, who's gonna update this thing regularly? We've had the same "quote of the day" for 3 days now. -- Ozzel 19:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we should go with quote of the week, or pick winners now and line them up for later? -- Riffsyphon1024 04:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Weekly might be the way to go, but yeah, I think a queue would be helpful either way. -- Ozzel 05:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll update it irregularly until we get a number of high-rated ones to fill the queue. - Sikon [ Talk ] 18:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Audience
I like the idea behind this page, but I think we might be missing the point on some of these quotes. The vast majority of the people who read our main page are going to be readers, just people passing by to check on something or browse. Having insider quotes like "Jaymach IS the consensus", while funny, aren't going to appeal to the majority of our readers because they won't understand it. RMF 06:02, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yea, I'm beginning to agree with you on that. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:28, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't even know why we have quotes from Wookieepedians. I must've been napping when you guys discussed this.  (Not that they're bad quotes: even the one I objected to was funny, even if it's peripherally related to a discussion contentious enough that putting it on the main page would just annoy people who would take it as an attack when it wasn't meant as one.) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think I voted for a few, but now that I think about it, RMF is right. I think we should avoid them unless they are simply about Star Wars or the nature of Wookieepedia, something that anyone could understand. That said, if "Beep beep boop!" gets posted for a day, I won't complain. :-P -- Ozzel 03:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I voted for mine (biased? me? noooo....), but under further consideration Silly Dan is right. No need to cause more controversy. I certainly didn't mean any harm when I said it, but it could easily be misinterpreted. And RMF is right that causal passers-by probably wouldn't get many of the user ones. Maybe once we thoroughly exhaust the gazillions of potential in-universe and VIP quotes we can reconsider (whenever that may be ;)), but until that point I'll stick to non-Wookieepedian quotes, and hereby suggest that others do the same. Maybe it's worth putting a notice at the top of the Wookieepedian section - "Consider whether Wookieepedian quotes will have any meaning or value for casual passers-by before contributing to this section." GeneralTarfful 22:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the whole Wookieepedian section is getting out of hand. Lately we've been having users post quotes from their fanon characters or other silliness. Can we make a rule stating that you can't nominate your own quotes?  StarNeptune Talk to me! 02:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, that may help, but it might also just result in people having a buddy or sock nominate their quotes. While drastic, I think a simple prohibition of quotes from users may be the best policy. RMF 19:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. This wiki isn't about us.  Not that some of those quotes aren't amusing: they just aren't a good decoration for an encyclopedia.  (If people wanted to keep a collection of user quotes somewhere, that wouldn't be so bad.) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Out of Hand

 * Is it just me or is this getting a little out of hand. I think there should be a certain number of quotes allowed at one time. Or we could organize like the featured article or improvement drive. Like having a certain amount of votes in a certain amount of time before it gets booted off the nomination list.
 * I think we really need some policy for removing the articles that have been sitting there for a while without getting any votes. Kuralyov 04:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed it's out of hand. I held Han Solo's quote in the queue because three user quotes in a row (that's what was left in the queue) seemed like an overkill. - Sikon [ Talk ] 07:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Not voting
There's something I don't get. Why do some people nominate quotes but not vote for them? I find this activity fascinating. -- Ozzel 21:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC)