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Welcome to the main page of the Star Wars WikiProject. The project launched on February 11, 2006. Currently, we have 62 active members. Please see the discussion page for infomation on a large collaboration in the works.

WikiProject Star Wars was formed to foster the creation and encyclopedic improvement of Star Wars-related articles, and to establish guidelines for those articles. Its members endeavor to produce a succinct, comprehensive, general, and authoritative reference on Star Wars materials (canon and some non-canon; see below). Additionally, the WikiProject works to ensure that all related articles attain the standards set by WP:FICT and WP:WAF. In order to reach these standards, the WikiProject discourages extreme details and encourages an out-of-universe perspective for all prose (excluding concise plot summaries). To participate, simply add your name to the participants section. Project members, make sure to sign the roll call.

Recent changes in Star Wars-related articles

Seeing as Star Wars covers multiple branches of entertainment, the WikiProject is therefore a sub-project of numerous collaborations:

• WikiProject Entertainment
  • WikiProject Films
  • WikiProject Television
  • WikiProject Books
  • WikiProject Comics
  • WikiProject Computer and video games
    • WikiProject Star Wars

If interested, please sign our participants section.

The goal of the Star Wars Wikiproject is to organize, clean, and improve Star Wars information within a format that fits Wikipedia's fictional procedures to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines.

Currently, this WikiProject covers the following items:

1. Anyone affiliated with the concept of Star Wars, including the musicians, casts, and crews of every Star Wars film.
2. Anything featured on the Star Wars portal.
3. Anything located within a Star Wars or Star Wars-affiliated category, sub-category, list, article, stub, or template.

Our goals and duties are as follows:

1. Discussions and debates relating to the above items, including merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
2. Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's Fictional Guidelines.
3. Monitoring all articles for violations of anything listed in the above two parts.
4. Work toward making all Star Wars-related articles and lists clean, organized, well-written, and accessible.
5. Bring numerous articles to Good Article, Featured Article, and/or Featured List status.

We need the participation of Wikipedians and Star Wars fans alike. Here are some general guidelines to follow.

1. Please sign your name below and introduce yourself in the monthly roll call section of the talk page.
2. Take a look at recent discussions and the things to do page to see if your ideas have already been or need to be addressed.
3. Get to know other users so that you can get a sense of the Project's attitude and each member's opinions on what should be merged, expanded, and so on. This will allow you to work better with the team, especially on major projects.
4. Make sure you cite your sources, follow the project's guidelines in addition to style guidelines, and follow the discussions and agreements for the project.
5. Look for text that seems biased (see WP:NPOV) and fix it.
6. Be bold, but do not be reckless. See the above items and the section below for further information on what to do and what not to do.

Do not:

1. Insert un-cited and trivial information (see: WP:FICT, Fancruft).
2. Revert war (adherance to the One Revert Rule is encouraged)
3. Add original research, unsourced claims, speculation, point of view, excess video game information, vandalism, and patent nonsense.

1. This is a general interest encyclopedia, not GameFAQs or Wookieepedia. In fact, look to see if your article is already in Wookieepedia, theres a good chance there is at least a stub article, if not a full history and background of the character that goes into far more detail that Wikipedia wants.
2. Only a few characters, items, or spaceships deserve their own entry.
3. See: What Wikipedia is Not.
4. Again, we stress: this project is mainly for cleanup, organization, enhancement, factual fixes, and so on. Trivial information and fanfiction are frowned upon.

If some of these items seem redundant, it only underscores what we all believe in as a group.

The following is a chart of our largest tasks. For a complete list, please see the things to do subpage, in addition to our talk page. See the opentask template at the top of the page for the priority tasks. Project members, this chart should feature "priority one" tasks!

Make sure to visit the Star Wars Portal. Also you can vote for the selected article of the week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote.

Template:StarWarsCOTW The Star Wars Collaboration of the week is a group effort to improve a specific Star Wars article on Wikipedia every week. To help out or vote for next week's candidate please see the Star Wars Collaboration of the week page.

• See the Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/index for a list of Star Wars-related articles that do not require significant attention. Chances are, if an item doesn't belong on that list or isn't on there, it needs to be fixed (make a note on the things to do page and/or the discussion page).

• Also remember that there is a Star Wars barnstar that you can give out to deserving editors (and a userbox for those who are awarded the barnstar).