Forum:TC:Empire Day (comic story)

This page is an archive of the Trash compactor discussion about the future of Wookieepedia's coverage of the topic(s) listed below, including whether or not to delete or redirect the relevant page(s). This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the relevant talk pages or in the Senate Hall forum rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was No-consensus, past idle out period. NBDani (they/them)^{Yeager's Repairs} 14:19, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

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So, this came up yesterday in Discord, and I and a number of other users objected to the idea of splitting the Cinestory Comic in this manner. While it's true that the work's TOC has each of the five episode adaptations listed with the episode titles, I don't think this qualifies as the same kind of split work as the FACPOV series or, as a more relevant example, The Clone Wars: Grievous Attacks!, which is multiple episodes adapted by different authors, in a prose or otherwise original format. The Cinestory Comics in particular are, as far as I can see, literally just screenshots of the original episodes with caption bubbles of dialogue taken directly from the episodes. I'd also point on The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy, which is an adaptation of four episodes and lists each episode in the table of contents page, but the chapter numbers do not reset between episodes; by the logic of splitting the Cinestory Comic, we'd have split Shadow Conspiracy, and I strongly disagree with that idea.

Additionally:

• Splitting this work does nothing but bloat the Appearances lists of the relevant articles when a single listing works just as well; this is particularly relevant at a time when we're already starting to consider splitting off the Appearances/Sources sections of big articles like Anakin due to load times.
• It makes readers less likely to check out the Path of the Jedi article in general, since it makes the work look less unique to the uninformed user when viewing the Appearances list. A point was raised about this benefiting the reader because it lets them know what adaptations to skip, but I don't think that's really our place, nor does it work for the numerous other adaptations that have different names from the original work.
• As raised in Discord, doing this sort of thing is inconsistent with how we treat the numerous other multi-episode adaptations. There are quite a few TCW adaptations by DK and whatnot that cover multiple episodes, and some have table of contents dividing the episodes and some don't.

Redirect to Path of the Jedi: A Star Wars Rebels Cinestory Comic

1. I'm still personally undecided on cases like Before the Awakening, but to me this is a fairly clear-cut case of not needing to split. I see no benefit to the average reader in doing so, and I think it just serves to bloat the experience and further distribute the same information across multiple articles. Cade Calrayn 14:32, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
2. Per Cade, and honestly I'm not sure these even need redirects, but definitely agree they aren't notable for their own articles. Rsand 30 (talk) 14:58, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
3. Yasen Nestorov (talk) 15:49, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
4. While I do agree with Dani that, given the nuance involved, splitting them would not be inconsistent with other works, I agree with the rest of the overall points made by Cade and others. It’s one product, ultimately, and I don't think it serves the reader to split appearances for this case and add additional length to the relevant pages. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 16:10, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
5. Per Rsand, though redirects are cheap, I suppose. Master Fredcerique(talk) (he/him) 16:18, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
6. I agree these are complete stories, with their own endings within a larger book. However, it still is one book.-StarWarsFan327 (talk) 16:43, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
7. JMAS ^{Hey, it's me!} 04:35, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
8. ThePedantry (talk) 00:11, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Delete

Keep

1. The comic inside had clear "The End" notes and title pages for each story. They are five different adaptations in one book. They should be treated as separated stories cause that's how they're presented. NBDani (they/them)^{Yeager's Repairs} 14:39, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
   • Continuing: Other works, like Ezra's Duel with Danger and The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy specifically treat the multiple episodes as one story in how they frame their books. The Cinestory treats them as separate. It's not inconsistent to treat the works differently as they're presented differently. NBDani (they/them)^{Yeager's Repairs} 14:45, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
2. CometSmudge (talk) 01:12, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
3. Lewisr (talk) 01:56, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
4. Mr Star Wars AminoRepublic (talk) 18:40, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

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