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Talk pages are not forums for general discussion on your personal interpretation of canon. Please restrict talk page posts to discussions relating to edits made to the article itself. In short, please follow these guidelines. Thank you. Toprawa and Ralltiir 18:40, September 17, 2009 (UTC)
We were discussing the article, if the AT-AT is 15.5 meters, as some sources say, rather than 25 meters, then the article isn't correct... or I'd hafta build my Lego models bigger, and try to "fix" my Haynes manual At-At shirts :/ -JimmytheJ 19:27, September 17, 2009 (UTC)
- Since you evidently haven't the slightest clue of how we do things here at Wookieepedia, I'm going to help you learn so you can improve your approach to editing. We only include verifiable information from an official Star Wars source into our articles. Meaning that if an official source says that the AT-AT is 22.5 meters high, then the AT-AT is 22.5 meters high, regardless of how large or small it may otherwise seem. It doesn't matter if the model in the movie correctly scales up to the 22.5-meter figure or not. And it doesn't matter what your and other people's independent research may or may not discover. The only thing that matters is what the official sources say, and what the official sources say is that it's 22.5 meters, information that has been accurately and properly sourced in the article to Star Wars: Complete Locations. When you start independently analyzing technical schematics to come up with your own figure, that is the very definition of Original Research, which Wookieepedia does not permit. Thus, whatever independent research discussion you hold on the AT-AT's article talk page is irrelevant to the purposes of this article, because whatever independent answer you come up with will not be going into the article. The discussion has once more been removed, per the guidelines of Wookieepedia's talk pages. If you would like to continue the discussion, you are more than welcome to do so on your own talk page, or you may come into Wookieepedia's IRC channel and find someone to entertain you there. If you continue to perpetuate this discussion on the talk page, you will find yourself in violation of Wookieepedia consensus, and disciplinary actions may be taken. Thank you for your cooperation. Toprawa and Ralltiir 21:15, September 18, 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I'll leave that page be, but some sources did say it was 15.5 meters, yes? And the 22.5 figure was first conceived by unofficial calculations using Luke as a guide, who is known to be shorter than average. I don't know if that was factored into the calculations. So long as that's apparent to you I'm happy. Of course, I feel like such a noob, thinking this was the sort of thing we could discuss, in a topic about the page. I have a built-in understanding of what is right and wrong on the internet, and I just thought the one place to discuss the height discrepancies, and our opinions on the topic would be the talk page. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get much of a response on my talk pages, not being the most social, or well-known of Wikia users, I believe if you want to find people interested in what you're interested in, you go somewhere related to it. It's not like I directly changed the AT-AT page itself, I just wanted to find some solid evidence from the best source-stills from the movies themselves, and schematics. Maybe we need a discussion page for this sort of thing, where we may speak freely, and speculate in peace, without the pressure of typing in real-time -JimmytheJ 10:14, September 19, 2009 (UTC)