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This page or section is a Wookieepedia guideline.

It illustrates standards or conduct that are generally accepted by consensus to apply in many cases. Feel free to update the page as needed, but please use the discussion page to propose major changes.

This page provides advice for avoiding and resolving disputes which may crop up while contributing to Wookieepedia.

Resolving disputes

Avoidance

The best way to resolve a dispute is to avoid it in the first place.

Be respectful to others and their points of view. This means primarily: Do not simply revert changes in a dispute. When someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit, rather than reverting it. Provide a good edit summary when making significant changes that other users might object to. The Three Revert Rule forbids the use of reverts in repetitive succession. If you encounter rude or inappropriate behavior, resist the temptation to respond in kind, and do not make personal attacks.

Closely following the guidelines provided in the Manual of Style, Layout Guide, What Wookieepedia is not, Canon policy, Civility policy and NPOV policy can help you write "defensively" and limit your personal bias.

First step: talk to the other parties involved

The first resort in resolving almost any conflict is to discuss the issue on a talk page. Either contact the other party on that user's talk page, or use the talk page associated with the article in question. Never carry on a dispute on the article page itself. When discussing an issue, stay cool and don't mount personal attacks. Take the other person's perspective into account and try to reach a compromise. Assume that the other person is acting in good faith unless you have clear evidence to the contrary.

Both at this stage and throughout the dispute resolution process, talking to other parties is not simply a formality to be satisfied before moving on to the next forum. Failure to pursue discussion in good faith shows that you are trying to escalate the dispute instead of resolving it. This will make people less sympathetic to your position and may prevent you from effectively using later stages in dispute resolution. In contrast, sustained discussion and serious negotiation between the parties, even if not immediately successful, shows that you are interested in finding a solution that fits within Wookieepedia policies.

Further dispute resolution

If talking to the other parties involved fails, you should try one of the following methods to resolve the dispute. Which ones you choose and in what order will depend on the nature of the dispute, and the preferences of users involved.

Informal mediation

If things are getting a bit tricky, it might be useful to ask some cool heads to look in and help out; this might turn out to be sufficient to do the trick.

Discuss with third parties

Wookieepedia works by building consensus. To develop a consensus on a disputed topic, you may need to expose the issue to a larger audience. For disputes over the content of an article, if you have not agreed to a truce before this point, you should do so now. This allows others to fairly consider the issue without the confusion of ongoing edits, which are likely to aggravate the dispute. If an edit war persists and a truce is not feasible, request that the page be protected to allow the process to move forward.

Conduct a survey

If consensus is difficult to gauge from discussion alone, or if some users seem to be ignoring the consensus, consider conducting an opinion survey on the talk page. The survey should be carefully designed to present all sides of the dispute fairly.

Mediation

Request mediation of the dispute. Mediation is a voluntary process in which an Administrator works with the parties to resolve a dispute. The mediator helps guide the parties into reaching an agreement that can be acceptable to everyone. When requesting formal mediation, be prepared to show that you tried to resolve the dispute using the steps listed above, and that all parties to the dispute are in agreement to mediate. Mediation cannot take place if all parties are not willing to take part.

Disengage for a while

If you have a dispute, and discussion has ground to a standstill, and attempts to gain new participants have failed, the next step in the dispute resolution process is to stop. Put a note on your user page mentioning the article you have a dispute about, and a short explanation of the dispute (so you, and anyone who happens across your user page will be aware) and go away and work on something else on Wookieepedia.

Stay away from that dispute for a while. Respond to questions about it on your user talk page with a polite pointer to this section of the dispute resolution process, and a request that the questioner take their issues to the article talk page. Most importantly, do not force the matter on the article or discussion page. Allow the dispute to calm down. In the interval, new editors may become interested in the article and, if the issue comes up again, participants in the discussion may have a different perspective.

Active disputes

What follows is a dynamic list of pending disputes on Wookieepedia.

If no pages are listed in one or more categories, it means that there are no pending disputes. (force page update)

Accuracy disputes

Topic Last edit Last author
First Order High Command15:42, 17 March 2024Janomoogo
Rey Skywalker12:15, 17 March 2024J Fan
Maul's family/Legends03:09, 8 March 2024AmazinglyCool
Star Wars Expert Guide09:16, 3 March 2024LucaRoR
Battle in deep space01:46, 26 February 2024Vitus Infinitus
Rescue from the Dargon16:39, 23 February 2024Hk 47
Imperial II-class Star Destroyer13:49, 22 February 2024ThrawnChiss7
Thok (Gamorrean guard)19:17, 11 February 2024JMAS
Dengar/Legends14:23, 2 February 2024Darth Yarco
Onaconda Farr/Legends16:39, 27 January 2024NBDani
Simu-tunnel05:18, 25 January 2024MontztheMan02
Immortal/Legends20:12, 9 January 2024RoboCade
Max Rebo/Legends18:37, 2 January 2024JMM
Ryloth/Legends11:53, 26 December 2023Goodmind
Unidentified platoon (332nd Company)01:42, 8 December 2023Editoronthewiki
Kycina23:48, 24 November 2023Quentum
Unidentified Crimson Dawn cell leader19:05, 17 November 2023Editoronthewiki
Aaron system12:52, 10 November 2023Celestial oubliette
G8-R221:42, 29 October 2023PastaBot
Republic trooper01:47, 25 September 2023DarthBarnnak
Mokkotown22:18, 18 September 2023Erebus Chronus
Whorm Loathsom's Kerkoidia castle22:27, 15 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Wayland Herd21:42, 15 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Vesla Two18:53, 15 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Subspecies/Legends20:07, 14 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Sivorian13:51, 14 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Sena Pakkallo09:59, 14 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Rattataki/Legends00:00, 14 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Kohlma13:42, 11 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Raxus Prime00:37, 26 August 2023Lewisr
Stormtrooper sniper15:10, 12 August 2023C4-DE Bot
Dandoranian13:49, 10 August 2023C4-DE Bot
P'Chek (species)18:02, 11 May 2023VergenceScatter
Coruscant Rimward03:35, 19 April 2023PastaBot
Don Ivan Punchatz01:53, 31 March 2023PastaBot
Gorezh23:55, 27 August 2021RoboCade

Canonicity disputes

Topic Last edit Last author
S-c3.4 multi-range TAG16:42, 10 March 2024UberSoldat93
S-c4.1 multi-range TAG16:42, 10 March 2024UberSoldat93
Uvena II16:38, 15 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Jedi Command06:58, 11 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Fighter group06:56, 10 September 2023C4-DE Bot
Kuaran20:03, 3 April 2022RoboCade

Civility disputes

Topic Last edit Last author

NPOV disputes

Topic Last edit Last author
Rey Skywalker12:15, 17 March 2024J Fan
Raid on Polis Massa15:10, 16 March 2024ThrawnChiss7
Ben Solo13:42, 16 March 2024AnilSerifoglu
Mace Windu/Legends20:04, 6 March 2024Pablo Morales 2020
Inquisitorius08:37, 6 March 2024Jedi Sarith LeKit
New Jedi Order21:30, 16 February 2024Cavalier One
Saesee Tiin/Legends18:11, 7 February 2024AnilSerifoglu
Jedi High Council (New Jedi Order)10:41, 29 January 2024Imperators II
L0-LA5923:37, 25 November 2023Rsand 30
Order of the Sith Lords14:51, 24 November 2023AnilSerifoglu
Zeik20:41, 15 October 2023Lewisr
Borsk Fey'lya04:44, 27 September 2023154.6.12.14
Hansel19:47, 10 September 2023C4-DE Bot

See also

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