User talk:Jeffhritz

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Star Wars
Spotted some of your recent Star Wars edits. The places you've jumped into are not, so to speak, "good articles" (in that, they're pretty crappy). Please take a gander at e.g. List of Star Wars spacecraft, Boba Fett, Palpatine, for samples of decent, pretty good and awesome Star Wars-related articles, respectively. The big focus is on providing citations to reliable sources and maintaining a real-world, out-of-universe perspective. The removal of the bit about Tatooine being playable in Lego Star Wars, for example, probably wasn't the best edit, because it removes evidence of the article's subject being "merchandised," or adapted beyond its original presentation. Please consider restoring it.

Happy editing, and happy new year! --EEMIV (talk) 04:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the insight. I guess I had my head stuck in Wookieepedia. I restored the LEGO Star Wars bit. I'm brand new to editing on Wikipedia, and seeing the condition of some of the Star Wars pages, I'm hoping I can make, at least, a little improvement. Thanks again for the constructive criticism. Happy New Years! Jeffhritz (talk) 04:55, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Cool beans. A big chunk of Wikipedia's plot summary and in-universe trivia was migrated to Wookieepedia a few years ago. General attitude seems to be that we leave the story-telling to the wikia site, and the real-world perspective -- development, critical reaction, merchandising -- is our focus. Major topics with a clear real-world impact get separate articles; the minutiae (e.g. minor characters, "window dressing" spacecraft and locales) are relegated to various lists, with substantially trimmed-down content than a full article would garner. Take a gander at Category:Star Wars for a notion of where things sit now. Some corners are in a good spot, others clearly not at all. --EEMIV (talk) 05:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)