Wookieepedia:Improvement drive

The improvement drive is a collaboration to improve existing articles to Featured article status.


 * /History – For past winners.
 * /Failed – For failed nominations.

Nomination and voting
Articles to be improved can be nominated by registered users in the "nominations" section below, with an explanation of what work is needed. Please do not nominate articles involved in edit wars. Also, when nominating an article, please put IDRIVE on that article's page so as to inform any visitors of the page of its nomination.

When you vote, please add your vote to the vote total at the Current Ranking section, and make the necessary changes.

Each Sunday, the article with the most support votes is chosen. Opposing votes are not counted. You can vote for as many articles as you like. Articles need two votes per week to stay on the list.

Note: It is considered somewhat rude not to help improving articles you've voted for.

Collaboration
Here are some best practices to use while working on an article selected for the improvement drive:
 * 1. Plan your contribution. After an article has been chosen, it is a good idea to post your ideas for additions, changes and corrections for the topic on the article's talk page. You can then choose some of the listed contributions to avoid overlapping work.
 * 2. Be quick. Use . Once you have planned your work, make your edits quickly, but carefully. Articles chosen for the drive are the likely subjects of many rapid edits. By entering and exiting EDIT mode quickly, you can avoid another user saving a new edit before you have completed your work. If your edit will be more lengthy, place the  tag at the top of the article, save the edit to make the tag appear, and then begin your work.

Nominations

 * The next project article is to be selected on Sunday, July 30.

Please add new nominations at the bottom of the page.

Current Rankings

 * Category:Possible copyright violations (9)
 * 1) Rancor / X-34 landspeeder / Spice / R2-D2 (6)
 * 2) Bilbringi (4)
 * 3) Sith armor (3)
 * 4) Death Star plans / B-wing starfighter / Cloning (1)

Rancor

 * Nominated June 26, 2006; needs 8 votes by July 24, 2006

Support
 * 1) Master Nikolce 10:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) SkywalkerPL 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) LandoSystem1138 17:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Volemlock 17:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) White bishop 18:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Wawaboy2 19:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Jedi Dude 20:11, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments Are you making fun of me? Master Nikolce 05:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This article pretty much needs to be expanded, since this is Wookiepedia's speciality. Not offencive but Wikipedia's and Wookiepedia's article on the Rancor are similar. Nothing fancy. (Ps: did i do this right?)
 * Yep, Also there could be written more about it's familly life SkywalkerPL 11:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, that wasn't joke. Example of what I mean: It is known that while rancors do care for their young - born usually as twins - they do not suckle. The young ride the mother, one on her back, one on her stomach, until reaching maturity. SkywalkerPL 14:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Definitely needs some attention! Volemlock 17:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Spice

 *  Nominated July 1, 2006; needs 8 votes by August 3, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) Dumac
 * 2) SkywalkerPL 18:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Ozzel 00:10, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) BambookidX 00:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Cutch 01:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) SecondSight 18:39, 20 July 2006
 * One of the highest if not the highest smuggled goods in the galaxy deserves more infomation. --Dumac 17:13, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * look on article, and than on appearances list - it's almoust equal... sick! SkywalkerPL 18:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that we should merge the specific spices into just the spice page. I've also included some infomation on the mining of spice and how some spice is created however, there needs to be more --Dumac 23:34, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Spice is a major point when talking about the Hutts. If they are so good, why isn't there more information about Spice? The Spice mines of Kessel are here but not much information on Spice. --SecondSight 18:39, 20 July 2006

R2-D2

 * Nominated July 5, 2006; needs 6 votes by July 25, 2006

Support
 * 1) Skywalka 02:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Adamwankenobi Talk to me!  My home. 02:39, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) LandoSystem1138 23:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Ozzel 23:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Snoop 14:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Nighthawk leader 07:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * "R2-D2 later played major roles in the Yuuzhan Vong invasion and the Killik conflict." - Is that so? I see, what were they, exactly? Come on people, its Artoo! Skywalka 02:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Category:Possible copyright violations

 * Nominated July 5, 2006; needs 10 votes by August 9, 2006

Support Comments
 * 1) RMF 17:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) SFH 17:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Sikon [ Talk ] 18:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) LtNOWIS 20:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Ozzel 23:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) MoffRebus 14:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Volemlock 11:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Darth Culator 18:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I know this is somewhat unusual, but it would be an excellent way to clear out our backlog of copyvios (we currently have 83, many from as far back as November of last year). Anybody else? RMF 17:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, we probably should do something about this. At the very least, we owe it to Bob Vitas for all the articles newbees and anons have stolen from him. -- SFH 17:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Cleaning this out is long overdue. I'm constantly tempted to just blast every page in this category. -- Darth Culator 18:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe once it's on ID, we could delete any copyvio'd pages over a month old and start fresh. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

X-34 landspeeder

 * Nominated July 6, 2006; needs 8 votes by August 3, 2006

Support
 * 1) LtNOWIS 20:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Ozzel 00:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) RMF 06:21, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Volemlock 11:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) BambookidX 23:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) -- Snoop 14:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * The most famous landspeeder in history, and we've only got 1 sentence. -LtNOWIS 20:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Bilbringi

 * Nominated July 10, 2006; needs 6 votes by July 31, 2006

Support
 * 1) Rhysode 08:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) SkywalkerPL 12:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC) yep it must be MUCH more to write about it.
 * 3) Wswordsmen (no timestamp, invalid)
 * 4) OxfordScholar09 17:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Ozzel 18:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * Honestly, a planet which has been seen in a wide variety of sources has been neglected this badly?
 * This article in in desperate need of attention. For a planet with so much significance to the New Jedi Order Era, there is barely any information for it...

Sith armor

 * Nominated July 18, 2006; needs 4 votes by August 1, 2006

Support
 * 1) SWfanwriter 21:00, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) LandoSystem1138 21:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) SkywalkerPL 15:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * Right now, this article is pathetic. But if we fix it up I think it has the potential to be really cool.
 * Well, it could use some pics at least.--LandoSystem1138 21:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * and a longer description SkywalkerPL 15:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

B-wing starfighter

 * Nominated July 21, 2006; needs 2 votes by July 28, 2006

Support
 * 1) Atarumaster88 14:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * As one of the four major Rebel starfighter types represented in the movies, this variant's article differs little from the databank version and has no significant history section other than the Battle of Endor, despite having appeared in a large number of books. Atarumaster88 14:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Death Star plans

 * Nominated July 21, 2006; needs 2 votes by July 28, 2006

Support
 * 1) MoffRebus 14:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * Well... MoffRebus 14:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Cloning

 * Nominated July 22, 2006; needs 2 votes by July 29, 2006

Support
 * 1) Adamwankenobi 17:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments