Forum:SH:Non-narrative video games

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Bringing up a topic that came up in the Discord, which ties into two clauses of the WP:LG/IU:

"The Appearances section is a bulleted list of all officially licensed Star Wars narrative media that the article's subject has appeared or been mentioned in, subject to the following rules and restrictions listed below." and "Bulleted list of films, novels, comics, cartoons, roleplaying adventures, and computer games that the subject has appeared in"
"The Sources section is a bulleted list of officially licensed Star Wars reference material typically presented from a non-narrative, "out-of-universe" perspective."

Now, this does bring some issues into play, as the phrasing here assumes every video game is automatically narrative. Some aren't; and as a result of not being narrative, they're not on either Timeline of canon media and Timeline of Legends media—and as a result, isn't able to be rearranged via bot to have a standardized placement in appearances.

As seen above, the Appearances bit says bulleted list of all narrative media... but then proceeds to say all video games. Meanwhile, non-narrative is described as Sources. The thought on Discord was to specify this to say that narrative video games go in Apps, others go in Sources, while a specific subset of ones such as GOH, Force Arena, Galactic Defense, and Starfighter Missions (a small grouping of edge cases) still go in Apps as an exemption. Bringing forward for thoughts.—spookywillowwtalk 19:02, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Discuss

  • Sounds like a good way to approach this. Do we have a definitive list of non-narrative video games we list in Appearances? Also, what's an example of a non-narrative video game we'd list in Sources? Imperators II(Talk) 15:48, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
    • I'm fairly sure the bot (via last sweeps) has essentially moved all the ones to Sources that would be under this, except for the subset of ones I mentioned above, which are hardcoded to not get moved down. Stuff in Category:Web-based games and stuff like Star Wars: Anakin's Speedway is non-narrative and would go in Sources according to this (ran into this as the bot kept fighting me on Unidentified Gamorrean dancer around when this was initially brought up).—spookywillowwtalk 19:47, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Agreed with the approach, non-narratives should go in the sources Lewisr (talk) 01:11, 17 July 2025 (UTC)