Wookieepedia:Comprehensive article nominations/Ryan Kaufman

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Ryan Kaufman

• Nominated by: Manoof (talk) 09:30, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Nomination comments: Offhand introductory sentence to attribute the author leads to an IU character with a real-world name!

(3 ECs/2 Users/5 Total)

Support

1. Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:14, February 22, 2015 (UTC)
2. —MJ— _Comlink 07:37, February 25, 2015 (UTC)
3. Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 16:53, February 25, 2015 (UTC)
4. 501st dogma^(talk) 01:32, February 28, 2015 (UTC)
5. Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 23:41, March 10, 2015 (UTC)

Object

The Jedi Council is burning the midnight... er, 5:00am oil

• "thus inadvertently placing himself in the Star Wars universe.": Do we know for certain that it was inadvertent? Maybe he did it deliberately in hopes of getting this article on Wookieepedia. :P
  • Good catch, removed. Manoof (talk) 10:26, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
• If there is absolutely nothing to place into the infobox other than the name, then I suggest removing it entirely. As it stands, it looks ugly and serves no purpose.
  • Removed, though I should point out that Unidentified smuggler (Level 2142) has an almost identical infobox and nothing has been said on its nomination. I was also under the impression that infoboxes were, for all intents and purposes, compulsory... Manoof (talk) 10:26, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
    • There are a number of comprehensive articles with similar empty infoboxes, including Roberts. I'm pretty sure it was agreed in a nomination somewhere that empty infoboxes should still be included, although I can't find the specific archive. Ayrehead02 (talk) 13:12, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
      • Infobox re-added. Manoof (talk) 23:02, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
        • My objection stands unless and until I see an EduCorps consensus stating that this ugly and useless thing is required. And if such a consensus is produced, I will probably take the matter to the CT for a community decision. —MJ— _{War Room} 06:50, February 22, 2015 (UTC)
          • I'll see if I can find it, but wouldn't it be easier just to take it straight to CT if you're going to anyway? Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:14, February 22, 2015 (UTC)
            • I may just do that. —MJ— _{Council Chambers} 07:20, February 23, 2015 (UTC)
            • Done. See Forum:CT:Empty infoboxes. —MJ— ^{Training Room} 07:35, February 23, 2015 (UTC)
              • I'll go ahead and remove it since that seems to be where the CT is headed... Manoof (talk) 07:33, February 25, 2015 (UTC)
                • Fair enough. :) —MJ— _Comlink 07:37, February 25, 2015 (UTC)
• Good night. —MJ— ^Holocomm 10:03, February 21, 2015 (UTC)

Ayrehead

• Instead of saying "demise due to" could you say something like "defeat by"? Its not very clear right now that they defeated him in battle. Ayrehead02 (talk) 13:12, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
  • Clarified. Manoof (talk) 23:02, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
• Could we get a date in the bts. Ayrehead02 (talk) 13:12, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
  • Added Manoof (talk) 23:02, February 21, 2015 (UTC)

Hands

• So it appears from your categorizing the character as unspecified gender, calling Ryan a male in the bio itself is a mistake. Please don't let this happen again. And IRL I do actually know of females named Ryan too, so who's to say this doesn't also happen in the SW universe? Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 16:29, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
  • I mentioned something similar in the page's discussion, and simply missed that one mention "he". Fixed. Manoof (talk) 23:02, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
    • And I'd suggest to change the BTS sentence too. Perhaps "placing his namesake..." Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 23:54, February 21, 2015 (UTC)
      • Changed. I assume, since you mentioned it, that the way it was before implied the IU character was also male? Manoof (talk) 00:15, February 22, 2015 (UTC)
        • I wasn't so sure about that one to be honest, but I thought it might have. Hanzo Hasashi (talk) 00:22, February 22, 2015 (UTC)

Exiled Jedi

• You should not refer to the character with just a first name. This is minor, but something I wanted to make you aware of.
  • Last name only is acceptable right? I only noticed something recently (as in within the last week) about surname only once the character has been introduced. I've changed the mention in this article. Manoof (talk) 23:29, March 10, 2015 (UTC)
• From what I can tell in the BTS, he did not actually appear in the novel, correct?--Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 23:03, March 10, 2015 (UTC)
  • Other than that opening line, not really no. Should the 1st tag instead be Mo then? or both? Manoof (talk) 23:29, March 10, 2015 (UTC)
    • After typing the above, I realised it would be Mo... changed Manoof (talk) 23:31, March 10, 2015 (UTC)

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