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As per the recent CT on colon usage in Dark Horse comic titles, we have a bit of work on our hands. More work than any one person or bot can handle. Here's how you can help.

  • Articles need to be moved to their proper colonized name. Y'know, Star Wars Empire 7: Sacrifice to Star Wars: Empire 7: Sacrifice. Articles should be CTRL+F'd to replace "Star Wars X" with "Star Wars: X" where appropriate.
  • Categories need to be moved to their new names. This means re-tagging all the articles within them. The same goes for image categories.

Most stuff that needs fixing can be found in one of these two categories:

This page will serve as a coordination center. If you fix something, please update the link on this page, and cross it out. This list is far from finished; it'll expand it over time. --Imperialles 08:06, April 21, 2010 (UTC)

Star Wars: Dark Times (done)

Star Wars: Empire (done)

Star Wars: Invasion (done)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (done)

Star Wars: Republic (done)

Star Wars: Legacy (Done)

Notes

  1. Create paired list of pages to move (pagesToMove.txt)
    • [[from]] [[to]] [[from]] [[to]] ...
  2. Move pages
    • movepages.py -paired:pagesToMove.txt
  3. Update links
    1. Update the pages we just moved
      • replace.py -file:pagesNew.txt -regex "(\[\[|\'\'| |Category:)Star Wars Republic" "\1Star Wars: Republic"
    2. Update all links to the pages we moved (do this for each page we moved - you can string together multiple -ref:"somePage" flags)
      • replace.py -namespace:0,4,6,10,14 -regex "(\[\[|\'\'| |Category:)Star Wars Republic" "\1Star Wars: Republic" -ref:<eachPageWeMoved>
  4. Move categories (do this for each category except image categories):
    • category.py move -from:Star_Wars_Republic -to:Star_Wars:_Republic
  5. For images categories:
    • category.py move -from:Images_from_Star_Wars_Republic -to:Images_from_Star_Wars:_Republic -inplace
  6. Added list of Star Wars: Legacy articles to move, as I started haphazardly moving them and it's probably better to be organized.
  • Don't forget the KOTOR comics. The main series article and the main image category have both had the colon for quite some time, but the subcategories and the issue, story arc, and TPB articles don't. —Master Jonathan(Jedi Council Chambers) 03:49, April 27, 2010 (UTC)
    • We know. All comic series will be gone through, we're just working through these first. Grunny (talk) 05:09, April 27, 2010 (UTC)
  • Just to be annoying I thought I'd mention that issues 1-45 of Republic should probably have the word "Republic" removed from their title, as they weren't published under that name, nor was that name retroactively applied in any reprints, to my knowledge. (If someone else knows otherwise, speak up...) Thefourdotelipsis 14:01, May 25, 2010 (UTC)
    • I'm at work, so someone else should check, but I thought in Omnibus: Rise of the Sith, Omnibus: Emissaries and Assassins, and Omnibus: Menace Revealed, they referred to Star Wars: Republic 1-6, 7-18, and 27-31, respectively. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 12:22, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
      • That may well be. I'll take a shufti later. Thefourdotelipsis 23:09, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
        • I was wrong. Those three omnibuses refer simple to Star Wars 1-6, 7-12, 13-18, 27, and 28-31. I'd still be reticent to rename the articles though, since even though the issues weren't necessarily retroactively renamed, the series itself was. And imagine the headache of n00bs asking every other week why "Star Wars: Republic" starts at 46. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 22:54, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
          • Hmm, I'd rather go with accuracy. Besides, if the noobs ask, they'll learn. So it's informative. So we did our job. ;) It's a bit like Reversal of Fortune. It's been informally called "Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune" by Paul Ens, but never formally. Also, we used to have all the Marvel issues under "Marvel Star Wars," so I think we should probably be uniform and do likewise with the early Republic issues. I can understand if we don't want to do it now, as it would require a shitload of extra work, but it's just something to keep in mind, I think. Thefourdotelipsis 14:06, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
            • I understand where you're coming from. I think in the end it would require a CT though. It's an issue that's small enough to be fairly easily tackled, and increases accuracy, but is still important enough that I don't think it would be right to just do it. The community needs to weigh in on this. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 20:09, May 28, 2010 (UTC)