Forum:SH:Filling in Missing Canon Pages

We have previously discussed in two threads (here and here) that we need to work on the switch from having Legends as the default pages to having Canon as the default pages. The justification for keeping Legends as the default early on was that there were not enough Canon pages to justify the switch. The other justification was that, at the time, the new Canon had not yet started. That was a fair decision, I think. Now, however, there's a lot more Canon, especially now that the first season of Rebels is ending, and we have over 2,000 pages. Additionally, the fact that we have Legends as the default instead of Canon is starting to be noticed. We also need to best-serve our readers who are coming to pages like, say, Mustafar (which appears in Rebels) and expecting to find Rebels information there. The future of Star Wars is in Canon, and most of our future contributors and a huge percentage of our readers are going to be because of Canon as well.

Several days ago, I asked more technically-inclined admins if they can come up with a plan for how we can make the switch. We should see the results of that brainstorming soon.

In the meantime, we want to make sure that the switch from Legends-default to Canon-default is as effective as possible. One of the ways to do that is to fill in as many /Canon links as possible. That way, they are already created, and the tab change can be done automatically for as many pages as possible, rather than having to change many, many pages by hand. I have put together a list of every /Canon redlink from Special:WantedPages. This is not every Canon page, just a) the ones with /Canon AND b) the ones that appear on WantedPages. That special page only goes up to 1,000 pages, so there are surely more /Canon pages that are redlinks. As we fill in the ones already on the page, though, we'll start to see more /Canon pages appear in the list.

Below is the current list of /Canon pages that appear. If you are interested in participating in the efforts to document Canon, or you're already participating, please feel free to begin creating these pages. Just keep some things in mind:


 * As always, follow the requirements Manual of Style and the Layout Guide. Even if you're making stub pages, we want the information that you put on the page to look great!
 * Use an image whenever possible, and make sure the image properly sourced.
 * Make sure that the name of the subject appears in a Canon source and/or meets the exceptions of the notability policy. The policy currently allows conjectural names only for events and notable personal weapons. If you're not sure of the source of the name, or you're not sure if it has one, please leave the page on the list without creating it. We can review at the end.
 * Make sure every bit of information you add to a page is referenced to official canon sources.
 * Have fun!

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the Discussion section or contact me personally. Thanks! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:50, March 1, 2015 (UTC)

Wanted Canon pages
Once you have created a page on this list, or if you notice someone else has created it, please remove it from the list.

Discussion

 * Hey Brandon, good idea! Just a question regarding a situation, and not sure if/how it will affect the list here:
 * RC-1140 is currently the legends page for the Clone Commando "Fixer" from the Republic Commando game
 * Fixer (clone commando) is currently the corresponding canon page
 * As such, RC-1140/Canon is a redlink.
 * Would this be picked up by the process you're using to populate the above list? Manoof (talk) 02:00, March 2, 2015 (UTC)

It wasn't linked to anything, so it would not appear in Wanted Pages. This is just for pages that are current redlinks. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 02:06, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * So the intention is to really just go after the ones that actually say "/Canon" and not worry about anything that has a different name in Canon for now? I guess I can do that. Here are some ones that you missed, and which I'm planning to create anyway. All of them appear in A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD:
 * Cloak/Canon
 * Gangster/Canon
 * Wingmate/Canon


 * This last one I'm not sure about. The term used in the book is technically "Wingman," but that's really just a gender specific version of "Wingmate." I imagine there's probably going to be more once The Empire Strikes Back Read-Along Storybook and CD comes out on the 10th. My hope is turn to all of the Read-Along Storybook and CD articles into status articles. ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:03, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's about ones that have /Canon on them, because those are the ones that are actually going to require page name changes. As for the ones I missed, those aren't on Special:WantedPages yet. As I said, my list is not complete because WantedPages only shows 1,000 pages at a time. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 03:08, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it, then. Okay, I'll keep an eye out and if I see any others with /Canon that haven't been posted here yet, then I'll post them. Also, I've struck out, Scavenger, since I just did it, as well as a few on your list that have gone blue. Hope you don't mind. If you do, just let me know, and I'll stop. 03:17, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Has the YT-1300 actually been named in Canon? Corellian Premier Jedi symbol.svg Force will be with you always 03:14, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Not that I'm aware of. You could ask Nivlacanator if there was anything in the Star Wars Journeys: Beginning app though, since the Falcon was in Episode III. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 03:18, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * It certainly isn't in the Databank or the old Encyclopedia, and judging from the Appearances listing of Star Wars in 100 Scenes, not there either. I think a lot of us have just been running with it, assuming it was named somewhere, but right now, it looks like the answer is no. ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:21, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * FWI, there's no info on the Falcon in Beginnings. -  AV-6R7 User talk:AV-6R7 23:47, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * As a note, when looking at /Canon titles with backlinks and no article at the title, be aware that all Legends articles without a canon counterpart generate a single "link" to /Canon due to the internal workings of the Eras template. This is not a bug, but a feature of MediaWiki (retrieving information about another page, such as whether it exists, is recorded as a link in "what links here" so that users are aware that one page is dependent on another). So if a /Canon title has a single link to it, check "what links here" and the article linking to it to make sure that it isn't purely one of these phantom "links". &mdash;MJ&mdash; Council Chambers 07:02, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jonathan. I had considered that as well. That's not an issue for this current list, though. There's nothing on Special:WantedPages with less than 5 links to it. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 07:07, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Abafar/Canon has been taken care of. -  AV-6R7 User talk:AV-6R7 00:20, March 3, 2015 (UTC)
 * It was identified as "YT-1300 light freighter" in Star Wars: Galactic Defense! And another ambiguous source I cannot recall. Nivlacanator, 21:52, March 3, 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 06:32, March 4, 2015 (UTC)
 * Where is the Techo Union Starship ever called the Hardcell-class interstellar transport in Canon? -  AV-6R7 User talk:AV-6R7 21:14, March 7, 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like its another Galactic Defense appearance. Ayrehead02 (talk) 15:28, March 8, 2015 (UTC)

For ease of tracking progress, I have created a simple Lua module to count the number of items in the list, and placed that count at the top of the list. It will update automatically every time a link is added or removed. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Council Chambers 08:19, March 17, 2015 (UTC)


 * Just to be clear, are we considering the old Clone Wars starwars.com episode guides canon or not? Because that's the only potentially canon source I can find that actually refers to brain worms as brain worms. ProfessorTofty (talk) 18:44, March 21, 2015 (UTC)