Forum:SH:Policy on animation errors

Unless I am mistaken, I do not believe the wiki has a policy for animation errors. As I am working on an article that is effected by this, I figured that I should make this forum post to ask what I should do.

The main way this effects me is that, in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, there are sometimes shots that showcase a B1 battle droid, but, at another point in the scene, it will be a model from the OOM-series battle droid. Notably, in A Necessary Bond, several OOM pilot battle droids are seen during the Battle on Florrum, but the next shot displays at least two of them as B1s. In Downfall of a Droid, Grievous stands beside an OOM pilot during the mission to sweep outer corridor of space, but later shots depict a B1.

This type of error can effect articles, as you would need to decide if we are supposed to note these droids on the OOM pilot page or if they should be left out.

My personal idea was that we could see which animation takes up the majority of time, so, if the droid has more screen time as a B1, the wiki would treat it as a B1. Perhaps the error could be noted in the Behind the Scenes section.

Granted, for the example about Downfall of a Droid, you could argue the OOM droid just left the computer and a B1 took its place. Also, there could eventually be an animation error where all its variants have equal screen time. I suppose I'll let the community give its input on this idea.--Editoronthewiki (talk) 02:42, December 31, 2019 (UTC)