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All right everybody! Here comes the next of Wookieepedia's semi-regular Barn-burners. With this project, we aim to tackle droids, a topic on the Wook that perhaps does not get the attention of some other parts. Also, there are many other articles related to droids that you can work on, such as droid designers, droid manufacturers, and droid accessories. So go out and find a droid-related article that you like and bring out those article writing skills, because we are ready to roll!

Purpose and overview

File:Counterparts.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Two famous droids For anyone here who does not know what Barn-burners are, they are Wookieepedia's way of improving articles related to a topic or source and promoting the improved articles to CA, GA, and FA status. With the topic of droids we are attempting to combine the ideas of our-highly successful original Wookiee Barn-burner and our even more successful Weapon barn burner. We can write articles on droids, droid accessories, droid manufacturers, and even people who designed droids. So good luck to all of you on finding articles for your nominations and lets do our best to make this the most successful barn burner yet.

Ideas for projects

Individual droids

Larger projects

Droid models

First-degree droids

Second-degree droids

Third-degree droids

Fourth-degree droids

Fifth-degree droids

Droid manufacturers

Droid designers

Droid accessories

Sign ups

Exiledjedi

SavageBob

Menkooroo

Cal Jedi

Omicron

Green tentacle

501st dogma

Jinzler

Olioster

jSarek

Current nominations

Whenever you nominate an article related to the project, please enter the information in the table below so that we can keep track of it. Please also remember to review other's nominations so that we can bring as many articles to status as possible.

FeaturedIcon Current Featured article nominations

Article Nominator(s) Notes FAN

GoodIcon Current Good article nominations

Article Nominator(s) Notes GAN

Era-comp Current Comprehensive article nominations

Article Nominator(s) Notes CAN

After a droid-related article passes during the Barn-burner please add it to the corresponding box below.

Droid-related good articles (Prior to Barn-burner)
Droid-related comprehesive articles (Prior to Barn-burner)


Source requests

Please request information for specific sources here:

Treasure of the Hidden Planet

Does anyone have the Star Wars: Droids cartoon DVD Treasure of the Hidden Planet? I can't seem to find my copy. I'm curious how the subtitles refer to Lin-D, the comedian droid from the episode "Across the Roon Sea" (which should start around 44 minutes into the DVD film, with Lin-D's part about 15 minutes past the start of the episode). I've never seen the name written elsewhere, and I'm suspicious of the title here on the Wook. Can anyone help? Thanks, ~SavageBOB sig 22:43, April 29, 2012 (UTC)

  • It's Lin-D on the subtitles. Green Tentacle (Talk) 23:18, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
    • Great! Thanks for checking. ~SavageBOB sig 00:55, April 30, 2012 (UTC)

Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide

  • What exactly does this book say about S-0D3-GE3? Gal-icon OLIOSTER (talk) 22:20, May 18, 2012 (UTC)
    • It merely mentions him in the GE3-series protocol droid entry as an example for the name by which droids of the GE3 model went by. Here is the text: "Thought technically all GE3-series droids share the same suffix to their names (GE3), most shorten their designation to contain only their unique identifier; thus a protocol droid whose full designation would be S-0D3-GE3 would drop the GE3 and would go by only S-0D3." (From the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide, page 83)--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 22:49, May 18, 2012 (UTC)

More of a review request

Is Unidentified assassin droid series in any way ready to be nominated? Corellian PremierRobotechAll along the watchtower 21:59, May 30, 2012 (UTC)

  • Should I just go ahead and nom it? Corellian PremierRobotechAll along the watchtower 16:11, June 12, 2012 (UTC)
    • Sure, but before you do, there's a few things I caught. Describing the Trade federation as greedy is kinda POV, and the Jedi will need context in the description secion. A good article otherwise, ready to nom. 501st dogma(talk) 12:06, June 14, 2012 (UTC)

General discussion

This section is for general discussion about the project:

  • Just want to make sure I'm doing this right. Although there's nothing in the Layout Guide, precedent seems to be that articles about droid types have a "Description" section followed by a "History" section, while articles about individual droids have a "Biography" section then a "Characteristics" section. Sound about right? Menkooroo 05:07, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
    • There does not seem to be a universal format for the droid articles, but that setup seems like a good one to me.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 14:15, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
      • I still don't like the "Description" and "History" breakdown for droid type articles. Droids are not just like vehicles or weapons; they have personalities and behavioral patterns, much like sentient species. Lumping that under "Description" is a bit weird, in my book. But there is no community-approved layout guide for droid types, unfortunately. Tm T and I talked about hashing one out a while ago, but nothing became of it due to real-life commitments. Wonder if this might be the time? ~SavageBOB sig 22:46, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
        • I guess we should come up with something. What sections do you suggest that we use?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 00:53, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
          • With May one day away, it's a bit too late to get an approved layout guide in time for the barn burner, so it's best if we follow precedent for now, anyway. No reason that "Description" can't be further subdivided, though. Menkooroo 01:02, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
            • My main suggestion would be to add a "Role" header, like the layout guide for starship and vehicle class articles. The layout would go "Description" (for physical description, equipment, etc.), "Role" (for programming, functionality, personality, etc.), and "History" (for the development of the model and for the stories of any notable units. Lacking any CT, I hate to just default to precedent, since precedent has never had to face community consensus. A CT for a layout guide might be a good idea to run concurrently, at any rate, since the community's mind will be on droids for the period. ~SavageBOB sig 02:15, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
              • This seems like a good format to me, so since there is not any set way of sectioning I will use this layout for my articles.--—Unsigned comment by Exiledjedi (talk • contribs) 02:33, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
  • Whrr is not seen by anyone in his appearences, but Boba hears wirring and clicking as Whrr does stuff, and figures Whrr's a droid. Would it be acceptable if I promoted Whrr to a status article as a droid using Boba's figuring as my only proof that Whrr's a droid? I would have to put something in the BtS about the figuring, but can I go ahead with it? 501st dogma(talk) 20:44, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I'd say that as long as you explain what suppositions you've made, you should be OK. Explain them in the BTS section. It's probably also worth noting how it is Boba interacted with the droid if he never saw it, since the article as it stands now is very confusing. Good luck! ~SavageBOB sig 20:55, May 2, 2012 (UTC)

Tagging articles

Here is a template I have created for the barn-burner. Any thoughts or comments?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 22:56, April 27, 2012 (UTC)

R2 flames cropped

— Look, sir, droids.
SH:Project Droids: Wookieepedia's Fourth Barn-Burner! was nominated and gained status as part of Wookieepedia's fourth "Barn-burner," focusing on articles related to droids. The barn-burner ran during May and June 2012.

  • I like it. It could use some colour, though. Menkooroo 01:31, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
    • Better?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 01:41, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
      • How about a non-blue color? :P We already had a blue-themed one for weapons. Perhaps yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, black, or gray? MasterFredCommerce Guild(Whatever) 03:27, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
        • How is this color?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 04:02, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
          • Honestly? No offense, but "ugh". How about yellow? (BTW, I fixed the error that was causing the majority of the template to show up white.) —MJ— Comlink Monday, April 30, 2012, 04:05 UTC
            • Well, here is a yellow one. I am sorry but my aesthetic abilities are less than wonderful.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 04:09, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
              • I'd sugest a dimmer version of yellow or something more suggestive of metal maybe. Maybe FFFF66, FFCC00, CCCC00, or CCCC66? ~SavageBOB sig 13:56, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
                • Thanks Bob, CCCC66 is the type of yellow/gold color I was looking for. How is everyone with this color?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 16:01, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
                  • I like it! ~SavageBOB sig 16:34, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
  • I think it could use an action shot instead of them standing around. Somthing like R2 flying about in AOTC or ROTS? NaruHina Talk Anakinsolo 16:33, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
    • Something like File:R2 flames.jpg?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 16:54, April 30, 2012 (UTC)
      • Sure. :) I like the constrast. "Look, sir, droids. THEY'RE DESTROYING EVERYTHING." —Unsigned comment by NaruHina (talk • contribs)
        • Sorry. Been kinda busy. I love it. Great work! Now maybe this week will hurry up and I can get to writing. MasterFredCommerce Guild(Whatever) 01:00, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
          • I actually liked the 3PO and R2 one better; this one you can't really tell what's going on since R2's so small. I uploaded a cropped version to the template and then reverted myself; feel free to use the crop if you prefer, EJ. ~SavageBOB sig 20:53, May 2, 2012 (UTC)

Droid degrees

I note that we have categories for Category:First-degree droids, Category:Second-degree droids, etc., but I can't seem to find associated articles (first-degree droid, class two droid, etc.). Am I overlooking these? Seems we should if we don't. ~SavageBOB sig 22:39, May 2, 2012 (UTC)

Hell yeah we should have those articles. I am totally shocked that we don't already have them. —MJ— Holocomm Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 22:42 UTC
See Droid/Legends#Classes_of_droids. <-Omicron(Leave a message at the BEEP!) 11:38, May 3, 2012 (UTC)
Each of the degrees should still have their own articles, I think. ~SavageBOB sig 13:32, May 3, 2012 (UTC)
Not having those articles confused the heck out of me the other day when I was trying to link to it. Corellian PremierRobotechAll along the watchtower 14:51, May 3, 2012 (UTC)

They've all been created now: First-degree droid, class two droid, class three droid, fourth-degree droid, and fifth-degree droid. I tried to create enough redirects to make them easily findable. Start a-linking! ~SavageBOB sig 19:31, May 5, 2012 (UTC)

Scope

Layout guide

  • Per the discussion above, I've proposed a layout guide for droids and droid models here. It probably won't see its way to policy during the lifespan of this BB, but I invite everyone to stop by and help draft it! ~SavageBOB sig 18:39, May 12, 2012 (UTC)

Identifying a droid model

  • Can anyone identify the droid model depicted File:DroidinContrast-SWG.jpg|here? Gal-icon OLIOSTER (talk) 14:37, May 13, 2012 (UTC)
    • Looks like FX-7, or at least that droid's model. See here. ~SavageBOB sig 14:59, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Extension

Does anyone think that we should extend the barn-burner into June in order to provide a larger window for the people who said they were busy in May?--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 12:28, May 22, 2012 (UTC)

  • I do. In fact, I think future barn burners should last for two months instead of one. Gal-icon OLIOSTER (talk) 16:42, May 22, 2012 (UTC)
    • I agree. If it's extended, I'll probally have time to expand and nominate 11-4D. 501st dogma(talk) 14:51, May 26, 2012 (UTC)
      • I agree. I haven't been able to edit hardly at all here recently, so June would make things easier. MasterFredCommerce Guild(Whatever) 22:39, May 28, 2012 (UTC)
        • All right then, since we have three votes in favor and none opposed, I have decided to extend the barn-burner through June.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 02:47, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
          • Since you extended it, you will have to add that to the Droid barnburner template. Currently it says it only ran in May. 501st dogma(talk) 16:02, June 10, 2012 (UTC)
  • I've only discoverd this barn burner now (In July) so could someone tell me if it's still going.--Commander Code-8 (talk) 02:20, July 14, 2012 (UTC)
    • Uh... no? That's kind of why it says May and June. Cade Calrayn GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit 04:33, July 14, 2012 (UTC)
      • Cade, there's no need to be rude when someone asks a harmless and honest question. Commander Code-8: The barn-burner is finished, but if you still want to write a droid article, no one will mind. :) And we'll probably have another one in a few months! Menkooroo (talk) 04:37, July 14, 2012 (UTC)
        • Wow, sorry. I'm totaly exhausted. I tend to snap at people when I have to mop the stupid docks and almost cleanup throwup. Luckily, i passed that job onto someone else. Seriously, who throws up while watching the movie Ted? Cade Calrayn GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit 05:02, July 14, 2012 (UTC)