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"It's a big galaxy, and someone has to organize it."

- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species

Pronunciation Guide = Riff. SEYE. Phon

After five years, I still haven't produced a decent looking user page and you can all smite me for it. Nor have I produced a single Good Article or Featured Article. To which I ask myself, what was my true purpose here? I apologize for any lack of attention to the site.

See Template:Policies for overview of policies on Wookieepedia.

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Other branches of Star Wars on Wikia

Adminship
I became an administrator of SWW on March 16, 2005. I was enacted the second bureaucrat of Wookieepedia on February 14, 2006.

Aliases

 * TheForce.net: wookieepedian1
 * StarWars.com: darthrifficus

Various other aliases include an Imperial character for an internet RPG under the name of General Aurelius Tempest and a Sith Lord named Realgar. Additionally, if I was inserted into canon I could be Nevets Do'ow-neerg.

For the Darth Who Contest, I submitted Darth Lycinis as a name. It is a combination of the words "lie", "sin", and "lycan" referencing Jacen Solo's experiences with wyrwulves and personality traits of most other Sith Lords.

Biography
{{Scroll box|content= For information regarding the founding of Wookieepedia, see Steven Greenwood (Removed from article due to containing delusions of grandeur.)

Introduction to Star Wars
Steven first remembered Star Wars not from the big screen as many had before him, but rather the family VHS system, to which he repeatedly watched them until they were worn out. Over time he obtained toys here and there. It was not until 1997, when the Special Edition released in theaters that he was able to enjoy the saga the way it was meant to be viewed. From here on out Steven was a faithful fan. During the first movies of the prequel trilogy, Steven collected more items, but was interested more by his failed attempts to win prizes (other than free food) playing the Use the Force game at various restaurants.

By the time Attack of the Clones released in 2002, Steven had a fondness for detailed information on the saga, so much as to purchase the Incredible Cross Sections and Inside the Worlds of reference books. He also researched CUSWE and attempted to catalogue the many planets, systems, and sectors of the GFFA. This fed his interest for knowledge of the immense universe that George Lucas and many other Expanded Universe authors created. However, he felt he never had time to read novels, and was a visual person, stimulated by images.

Although he was a fan of the saga, he did not wait outside movie theaters for openings of the prequels at midnight, nor did he collect everything imaginable, to prove to others that you can still be a fan without being a fanatic.

Recently however, he has a fondness for collecting Star Wars action figures. Steven invited many users himself via Wikipedia, TheForce.Net and the social networking site Myspace of which Steven was also a member, using his large Star Wars group there for recruitment and spreading the word. (As of June 2007, that group had reached 40,000 members, however, it should be noted that only 10 percent of its members were regularly active.) The group has since been destroyed and rebuilt with the help of a user named 'Neptune' (no relation to StarNeptune).

Wookieepedia grows
To help with the many article creations and edits that the wiki received on a daily basis, Steven purchased more reference books, particularly the Essential Guides, and some issues of Star Wars Insider. For the time that he could contribute, Steven added many articles and fixed plenty of errors with spelling, grammar, tense, adding categories, stubs, images, and fixed code problems. In addition, Steven's administrator powers helped him delete many pages, ban many vandals, and protect a few pages in hotly-contested disputes.

With Wikipedia behind him, Steven gave up trying to keep up with the constant changes and errors of Wikipedians and Star Wars material, where it was not strictly enforced as it is here. He would then try to make Wookieepedia more than just another wiki by brainstorming new concepts up in his Thinktank, including a premise for Wookieenews, which would combine with TFN to inform users about various happenings around the Star Wars fanbase, in addition to related stories (the concept has not merged with TFN as proposed but has held its own as the primary news source for Wookieepedians).

Identifying with Star Wars
As the success of the Wookieepedia grew, Steven felt more comfortable about being a fan, since most fans would fall under the classic nerdy stereotype, which he was. However, he began to embrace it and announce it proudly. He went from a "casual non-hardcore fan" (for example, waiting days to see one of the movies) to a "rather large fan on the verge of obsession". He was Darth Vader for the first time on Halloween, and even considered joining the 501st Legion, however his costume was still below standards for the organization. He found that some people into Star Wars had heard about Wookieepedia through word of mouth or had actually been there.

His fandom became problematic however, as for the first time, Steven fell below a 3.0 for his GPA and lost his college scholarship. He temporarily left the full sanctity of the wiki to work on passing his classes, although he kept an eye on it at all times.

Preparation
Over the summer of 2006, Steven had more time to contribute and interestingly enough, returned to Wikipedia to work on more career-related articles, but slowed down once again due to classes in the fall.

On Aug 26, Riff experienced a Blue Screen of Death on his computer, finally restarting his computer on the day of the Mofference, November 10, 2006. This frame in time is considered the Dark Age. With the fall semester past, another opportunity to catch up became apparent, and the winter break brought increased contributions.

Steven then became serious about Los Angeles and Celebration IV. He had support from across the nation to represent Wookieepedia as well as his Myspace Star Wars group. There was even discussion to raise donations and send them to a Paypal account, however the idea was not favored by everyone.

In the late winter of the beginning of 2007, arrangements were made for the 4 day pass, a 6-day hotel stay, and plane tickets.

Celebration IV
Steven made it to Los Angeles on May 24, the Fan Club day, but as not a member of Hyperspace could not attend then anyway. When he did attend on the 25th, it was "absolutely amazing", with costumed fans everywhere.

Steven met or ran into the following people:
 * Wookieepedians
 * Arthur Papadam
 * Tracy Duncan
 * John Hazlett
 * Andrew Beard
 * Kyle Jewhurst
 * Andrew Skinner
 * Mark Sandell
 * Simon Clough
 * Joe Weaver
 * Charlii Enström
 * Taylor Fenno
 * Colby Butterfield
 * Bob Vitas (Manning the table)
 * Abel G. Peña
 * Joe Corroney
 * Mary Franklin
 * Leland Chee
 * Randy Stradley (grinned when Steven joked that Darth Krayt might actually have been Jacen Solo, but rather later became known to be someone else.)
 * John Ostrander
 * Jan Duursema
 * Doug Wangler
 * Matt Busch
 * Tom Hodges
 * Tsuneo Sanda
 * Erik Varszegi
 * C.C. Banana aka Bananakin Skywalker
 * Seth Green (saw him inside the Vader helmet exhibit but did not meet)
 * Indirectly, other people at continuity panel to whom Steven had the balls to ask three questions to: Pablo Hidalgo (StarWars.com), Sue Rostoni (Lucas Licensing), Jonathan Rinzler (Lucas Licensing), Shelly Shapiro (Random House), Jacob Bronstein (Random House Audio)
 * After leaving the Imperials Panel, Steven also opened the door for David Prowse (Darth Vader) and inadvertantly for Julian Glover (General Maximilian Veers) and Kenneth Colley (Admiral Firmus Piett), all headed from the panel apparently to get something to eat.

Later years of the wiki
In December 2008, Steven graduated from Austin Peay State University with a Bachelor of Science in Geosciences-Geology and a minor in Astronomy.

Throughout 2009 and 2010, the wiki continued to expand under the constant attention of its large number of administrators and new users arriving daily. Additional reference guides, Expanded Universe novels, video games, and Clone Wars material lent to the growth of material found across the wiki. In addition, greater creation of redlinks resulted in areas previously not expanded on to grow.

In the wake of social media advances, Steven created a Facebook fan page for Wookieepedia, that was moderated by him and other administrators. He had also taken an interest in Twitter and utilized to communicate with various fans and celebrities in the Star Wars fanbase, including those adamant about Wookieepedia. Steven made an attempt to fully return to the wiki in mid-2010, after a lull in professional activities. By August 2010, Celebration V had arrived, but Steven was not able to attend due to funds and ongoing conflicts. He had however sent his best wishes to those that could represent the wiki on his and everyone else's behalf.

During the fall of 2010, Steven continued to balance his professional life with that of his wiki, editing articles, and working on appearance lists. His user page also underwent some house cleaning of unwanted and unneeded text and subpages. Steven was there to see Wookieepedia cross the 80,000 article threshold in September 2010, announcing news to followers on the Wookieepedia Facebook page. }}

Things I find interesting on Wookieepedia
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Wookieepedia-specific
"Well um, hmm, Riff thinks I have a voice like Dexter."
 * Anons who revert other anons.
 * Anons who underestimate the power of the wiki, and end up getting banned as soon as they started vandalizing.
 * Our first bot, appropriately a familiar droid named Artoo.
 * That a few guys can grab the attention of an entire fanbase in only a year.
 * Users who insist on being Darths.
 * Users who go by character, location, or actor names.
 * An article titled "Hover Transport" that actually read "A transport that hovers." Real inventive.
 * That I never finish what I start.
 * That I catch more mistakes after I saved for the first or second time.
 * That it's astounding how fast information is added from a released source only hours after made public.
 * That I can prevent myself from going crazy from spoilers by purchasing that source on that day.
 * That Wookieepedia on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion per WP:WEB as spam. Thankfully it was speedy kept.
 * That suspension of disbelief is fun to think about.
 * Darth Culator's user page.
 * That we somehow don't have articles for the inevitably to be released.
 * That I am one that wants to keep everything on the wiki, a true inclusionist to the core.
 * That users consistently get younger and younger, down to 10 and 11 years! Is this where we need to be heading?
 * Mineral does not always equal material.
 * That people still can't spell "Wookieepedia".
 * That 117 users still can't spell "Wookieepedia". :C
 * That controversial users still ask about becoming administrators.
 * Guestbooks. I don't really favor them, but whatever.
 * I have never seen or heard anything like the Wookiee-Cast but I'm hooked on the Dexter-like voice of 4dot. If he only knew which one I was talking about.

- Wookiee-Cast III 5:18-5:24

"Do you even get paid to do this stuff?"
 * Vandals that return a year later as redeemed users?
 * Yea I created the 50,000th article, Solitaire. It's not much but it's canon and that's what counts.
 * The Other Wookieepedia
 * jSarek was the published question to Leland Chee in Star Wars Insider 96's Q&A section regarding Conan Antonio Motti's canon status, revealing his original name to be "Zi Motti" before Lucas intervened. Shown as "Sarek", he asked "How have you decided to treat the "Conan Antonio Motti" name... for Holocron purposes? Is it just another joke, or are you taking it a bit more seriously than that?" It was originally questioned on the SW.com forums on May 16, 2007.
 * This being said, I have found an instance of "Zi Motti" in Death Star while he talks to Admiral Jaim Helaw.
 * Interestingly enough, I was the first to ask Leland (or anyone in a panel) at Celebration IV's continuity panel on May 26, 2007 about the canonicity of this name, to which he replied "it will be revealed eventually". The publication of Death Star's Dramatis Personae and the Insider issue was the "eventually" part.
 * Do some users have a tendency to automatically vote with the most important person and not necessarily via a valid reason of their own?
 * I was almost deleted.

- The most commonly encountered question that I hear.


 * This place needs an update.
 * Galen Marek and Guri won Mister and Miss Star Wars respectively for 2008.
 * Beware the Great List Purge of 2008 and 2009!
 * April Fools Day 2009 Ideas
 * Main Page and FA in Shyriiwook (My idea)
 * Max as FA (4dot)
 * Howard the Duck wiki (4dot)
 * 1978 joke (4dot)
 * Wiki about Wookieepedia (4dot)
 * Star Wars Purist wiki (Ozzel) (winner for 2009)
 * The Complete Wookieepedia (Ozzel)

Canon

 * The amount of -ooine and -aan planets.
 * Examples for -ooines include: Tatooine, Dantooine, Ventooine, Klatooine, Handooine, Entooine, Cardooine, Mantooine, Minntooine, Reltooine, Sestooine, Sistooine, Vactooine, and Velmooine. Most -ooines show up in the Rim.
 * Other possibilities might be Brintooin, Jandoon, Parshoone, Alvorine, Aviprine, and Humbarine.
 * Examples for -aans and the occasional -een include: Alderaan, New Alderaan, Aldereen, Falleen, Endoraan, Manaan, Delderaan, Taloraan, Chardaan, Nelvaan, Tiisheraan, Talaan, Ophideraan, and Nyriaan. Most -aans show up in the Core. Ophideraan is in the Outer Rim.
 * StarNeptune and I have speculated that maybe there is a link, maybe an ancient empire that ruled the Rim, and another in the Core, each warring factions of each other, marking their territory with these suffixes. Maybe even the homeworld of both was named Aantooine, before splitting up. It's only a fan theory. :)
 * A Galactic Census could be held: Humans would have an overwhelming majority, followed by Twi'leks, Rodians, Wookiees, and Hutts. They may not really be the most populous, but they are the most popular.
 * My new favorite word is osik. An example of this in action is: "Don't give me all that droids-have-rights osik." from Odds.
 * That no one was born in 0 BBY. Did a great disturbance in the force prevent childbirth across the galaxy?
 * JustinGann's findings of creature population per planet, with the order as 1) Naboo 2) Tatooine 3) Endor 4) Kashyyyk 5) Yavin 4 6) Dac 7) Ithor 8) Corellia 9) Dagobah 10) Haruun Kal 11) Ansion
 * Dashed Jedi names, as if they're all from the same place: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, and now Chu-Gon Dar, Belsed-Qan Idan, and Bodis-Ker Vitan. We still don't know where the first two come from which is beyond odd.
 * That Tyber Zann was based in appearance on the actor who plays Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies (Jason Issacs). Is it postulated that this reference may place Issacs in a forthcoming role in the TV series as Tyber Zann himself? See also Talk:Tyber Zann.
 * Who would substitute for Ambak, Blaylock, Cronau, and Mezzicanley?
 * That the Givin are truely the coolest species for being mathematically advanced.
 * That I wouldn't eat Ugorian food.
 * If I could be like Michael Tandre and become a species' spiritual leader on a distant planet nearly overnight.
 * Palpy had way too much time on his hands writing the Dark Side Compendium as each book would take 96 standard hours to read, a total of 288 standard hours.
 * The Burning sounds horrible.
 * I might consider a visit to Vaathkree.
 * Star Wars: Demolition was where it was at in 2000.
 * Dor is geologically fascinating.
 * Tiran = Einstein
 * The Albino Cyclops is one ugly creature.
 * Some people gotta understand that Wookiee porn consisting of Mermeia was the latest thing in that day.
 * Oh the horror of xenoboric acid!
 * Havet Storm was really that important.
 * The return of the Sweet One and a familiar friend in the late Legacy Era.
 * Something to watch for and hope becomes realized in the upcoming Clone Wars series: the Scorpenek annihilator droid
 * Katie Lucas made braces canonical.
 * Mace Windu survives bigger falls than that on Coruscant. Landed on a air taxi too I bet...
 * Holy crap Legacy is even more fun now that we know who Darth Krayt is.
 * Lando's aptly-titled How to Succeed in Everything.
 * Lumiya makes her first appearance in the month of my birth, in Star Wars 88: Figurehead.
 * "Bannistar Station" would be a good banning cry.
 * I was wrong all along.
 * Note: there are still sources that capitalize: Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
 * Combat Umbrellas. Seriously?
 * The Bi-Polar blaster carbine: Great idea but terribly inefficient.
 * One character looks like our new President.
 * The Atlas still remains incomplete. Reasons for this:
 * The 1,024 sectors have not been fully assembled as hoped, but only in regions that have better astrography developed (especially those previously seen in WOTC and WEG material).
 * May be completed via the "living document" portion of the Atlas online.
 * Explanation for the -aans and -ooines remains mysterious like Yoda's species, though more showed up in the Atlas.
 * Per question/answer, this may expanded on online as well
 * The galaxy remains a work-in-progress. It will always be continuously updated as long as there are Star Wars television series, video games, novels, RPGs, etc...
 * Sector count per categories on September 4, 2009
 * Wild Space - 2 or 3
 * Tingel Arm - 7
 * Outer Rim Territories - 182
 * Mid Rim - 45
 * Inner Rim Territories - 13
 * Expansion Region - 18
 * Colonies - 17
 * Core Worlds - 22
 * Deep Core - 3
 * Clearly this number does not add up to 1,024 but closer to 310 sectors.

Other
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 * I am enlightened to learn that I share a birthday with Aayla Secura.
 * Why didn't I attend Celebration III in Indianapolis, only 400 miles away, not 2000?
 * Fanboys!
 * Riffsyphon
 * That I am a Warsie.
 * There's a real person named Dirk Yohan Beer. Isn't that a karking awesome name?!

Some calculations
Taking a bit from MarcK and Darth Culator, I am curious as to how many new individuals we can expect from the Star Wars live-action TV series.

Assuming that there are 100 episodes at 45 minutes each (with commercials), that equivocates to 37.5 movies of equal time at 2 hours long each. If each movie at 2 hours is capable of producing roughly 500 new characters, both main and background, then it could be extrapolated that 37.5 movies worth of episodes times 500 characters = about 18,750 new characters! Whoa...

If this show goes to 400 episodes as Rick McCallum has hoped, that number would quadruple to 75,000 characters.

Wookiee-Google growth

 * As of September 9, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 339,000 total hits on Google, with 164,000 being external and non-Wookieepedia site hits..
 * November 25, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 383,000 total hits, with 184,000 from the website itself.
 * In an odd reversal, as of February 3, 2008, "Wookieepedia" gets 197,000 total hits.
 * March 4: 201,000 total hits, 119,000 external
 * April 12: 201,000 total hits, no change
 * June 27: 354,000 total hits, with 177,000 external (exactly half)
 * July 31: 319,000 total hits, with 240,000 external
 * January 25, 2009: 299,000 total hits, 152,000 internal
 * June 17, 2009: 382,000 total hits, 310,000 internal

Wookieepotential
WPTL: 92,000 (current count at 80,100 as of Oct 1, 2010)

This is an estimated number of articles which Wookieepedia could technically have created based on the level of released canon, by analysis of redlinks on source and media articles. This figure is always subject to change due to updates in canon or major releases of material, as well as more accurate pinnings of wanted articles. The current article count stands at.

Upcoming (Check Insanity)
"Yay! Table! ick. table."

- Xwing328

See Celebration IV and Forum:Celebration IV table for more information. 
 * Celebration IV: May 24-28, 2007 (with May 24 being fan club only) [[File:CheckMark.png]] QUITE AWESOME!!!
 * Round trip plane tickets to Los Angeles for Celebration 4: $320
 * 6-night hotel stay somewhere safe and nearby: $400
 * Badge for 4 days at the event: $110
 * Knowing you sorta made an impact in fandom itself: priceless
 * There are some things in life that can't be purchased, for everything else there's the Jedi MasterCard.


 * Universal Day of the Jedi: Friday, May 25, 2007 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Death Star: releases October 16, 2007 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (video game): released September 16, 2008 in the USA [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Star Wars: Legacy
 * 28: September 24, 2008 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 29: October 29, 2008 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 30: November 26, 2008 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 31: December 31, 2008 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 32: January 28, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 33: February 25, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 34: March 25, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 35: April 29, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 36: May 27, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * 37: June 24, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Invasion 1: July 1, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 38: July 29, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Invasion 2 August 5, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 39 August 26, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Invasion 3 September 2, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 40 September 23, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Invasion 4 October 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 41 October 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Invasion 0 November 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 42 November 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 43 December 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 44 January 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 45 February 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 46 March 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 47 April 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 48 May 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 49 June 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Legacy 50 August 2010 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Star Wars: Legacy—War December 2010
 * Millennium Falcon released Oct 2008 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, released December 30, 2008 (pushed back from Feb 2008) [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Fanboys: pushed back from 2007 and December 2008, scheduled for release February 6, 2009
 * The Atlas of the Star Wars Galaxy, to replace The New Essential Guide to Planets and Moons (announced with tentative title on April 24, 2007): June 2008, then March 3, 2009 , then February 24, 2009 , then July 2009 , finally August 19 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Death Troopers: October 13, 2009 [[File:CheckMark.png]]
 * Celebration V: Did not attend. See Celebration V for what we did as a whole.

Personal VIP Interview Wish List (so far)

 * Leland Chee (met at C4)
 * Pablo Hidalgo (questioned at C4)
 * John Ostrander (met at C4)
 * Dan Wallace ("talk" with fairly regularly)
 * Abel G. Peña (met at C4, lots of Wookieepedians know him by now)
 * John Hazlett (you know him, you love him, to ask about his dance moves :P)

Wikipedia Creations Moved Over
Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, Cities of Star Wars, Creatures of Star Wars, The Maw, and Repulsorlift

Other stances

 * Moved Category:Characters to Category:Individuals (completed March 31, 2006)
 * SparqMan's HoloNet News Page
 * I've made quite a few articles pertaining to things usually found in our own galaxy but also appear in the GFFA, including but not limited to: Water, Snake, Groundquake, Number system, Tattoos, Radiation, Carbon dioxide, Mercury, Silicon, Platinum, Magnetite, X-ray, Gamma ray, and all sorts of other elements and compounds. The reasoning is: if they are mentioned in any source, they exist in the GFFA

Planets from CUSWE
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
 * Bolded are completely bluelinked.
 * Italicized are one or two away from complete bluelinktion.

Other Places

 * Personal email: darth dot realgar at gmail dot com

Appearances

 * Foundations of Stone
 * Pandemonium
 * Times of Change