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.

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 November 27.

Please add new nominations at the bottom of the page.

Trade Federation

 * Nominated October 25, 2005; needs 10 votes by November 29, 2005.

Support: Comments:
 * 1) --beeurd 20:07, 25 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) MarcK 23:28, 25 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) MyNz 9:08, 30 Oct 2005 {UTC)
 * 4) Kumarhk 09:26, 30 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) --Wattamb3000 18:54, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Hollis 21:26, 13 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Novajoe23 00:15, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) --Wattamb3000 16:27, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * For an organization that plays such a prominent role in the Prequels, it has a rather small article, I thought. I'm sure we can come up with more about the TFs relationship with Sidious and Dooku, and their role in the Clone War. --beeurd 20:07, 25 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * The Trade Federation plays a prominent role in the Prequel era and they get a small article! They were a superpower during that era and the Galactic Republic could not help Naboo at all!! This article needs more work on! --MyNz 9:08, 30 Oct 2005 {UTC)
 * More than half of the article is "Associations". How did such an important article go bad?!--Kumarhk 09:26, 30 Oct 2005 (UTC)

History of the Jedi Order

 * Nominated November 5, 2005; needs 6 votes by November 26, 2005

Support:
 * 1) User:Srini
 * 2) SFH 16:42, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Angel Blue 451
 * 4) AngelQueen 22:55, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Mon Mothma

 * Nominated November 6, 2005; needs 8 votes by December 4, 2005

Support:
 * 1) Azizlight 14:36, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) MarcK 02:13, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Sikon [ Talk ] 17:09, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) SFH 17:10, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Master Starkeiller 17:37, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Thinortolan 10:41, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) AngelQueen 23:01, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Way too short, makes no reference to the events of Episode III, and, gasp, doesn't even mention the Battle of Endor! The EU sections could definately use some work too. --Azizlight 14:36, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh goodness, the sources and succession boxes together are longer than the biography. Deserves better then this. - Sikon [ Talk ] 17:09, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * This is gross incompetence on our part. -- SFH 17:10, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * http://media.ign.com/boardfaces/11.gif --Master Starkeiller 17:37, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Mara Jade Skywalker

 * Nominated November 7, 2005; needs 6 votes by November 27, 2005

Support Comments
 * 1) DarthMaul431 20:55, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) MarcK 01:20, 13 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Kuralyov 21:55, 17 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) AngelQueen 23:01, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Divinity 14:55, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * The section of her involvement in the Vong war is reduced to a paragraph, no information on the Dark Nest Trilogy at all. DarthMaul431 20:55, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Clone Wars

 * Nominated 15 November, 2005; needs 6 votes by December 15, 2005

Support Comments
 * 1) MyNz 18:50, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) --MarcK [talk] 06:01, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) WhiteBoy 21:38, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) SFH 15:47, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) AngelQueen 23:01, 19 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) TIEPilot051999 04:00, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Adamwankenobi 04:28, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * The state of this article is a disgrace to the Star Wars Wiki! Not a single section of it talks about the history of the war! We just have one huge list of battles and missions. It tells us nothing on the origins of the war, the campaigns, the end of the war and the aftermath. I hope you are all ashamed of yourselves for the state of this article! MyNz 18:50, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Bit of an overreaction, but I agree. --MarcK [talk] 06:01, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Definite drama there, but nevertheless, this article should be better. WhiteBoy 21:38, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * This may be beating a dead horse, but that was a bit of overreaction...Doesn't mean he's wrong. -- SFH 15:47, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Since the Clone Wars covers many battles and campaigns. Why not combine all the battles that took place during the conflict and use it to create the article? I have been working on it in my Microsoft Office Word 2003. It's really long. Would there be any way to email my work to one of the administrators? MyNz 13:20, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, a summary of every single battle would be fairly counterproductive in an article like this; that's what the specific battle pages are for. Rather, it would be better to look at the overall scope of the war: what started it, major events, how it ended, etc. --MarcK [talk] 03:45, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you mean like on the Great Hyperspace War, the Great Sith War and the Yuuzhan Vong War articles? Probably, we should aim to get this article something like the above. An advantage is that we have lots of pictures on the Clone Wars. MyNz 19:48, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * One must note that a good portion of the current article was copied from Wikipedia and thus wookified. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:43, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I just spent the past two and a half hours reworking the article. I know it wasn't the current improvement drive, but hey. At least when it BECOMES the new improvement drive, there's more to work with.TIEPilot051999 21:07, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * But where's the list of major battles now? -- Riffsyphon1024 21:18, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally, I didn't feel that it was needed. Still, I can put it back if you really want it there.TIEPilot051999 21:21, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * There. Put it back.TIEPilot051999 21:24, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I was going to say that there is a larger chance that when someone searchs for the battles of the Clone Wars, that they won't find the List of battles immediately, and then they would have to go all the way down just to find it. -- Riffsyphon1024 21:26, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. And I understand why we need the "cleanup" thing there, but can we get rid of the "We're Doomed" tag now? Even though it still needs work, I don't think it needs THAT much work.