Wookieepedia:Featured article nominations/Battle of Rhen Var (Great Galactic War) (third nomination)

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Battle of Rhen Var (Great Galactic War)

  • Nominated by: Darth Trayus(Trayus Academy) 07:55, August 8, 2013 (UTC)
  • Nomination comments: So I know three nominations on the same article looks bad (especially after having allowed the previous two to fail), but the prior two nominations lapsed as a result of my own inability to tend to them. As it looks now, that shouldn't be an issue this time.

(4 Inqs/2 Users/6 Total)

Support

  1. Inqvote IFYLOFD (Enter the Floydome) 23:25, September 14, 2013 (UTC)
  2. Thefourdotelipsis (talk) 06:32, October 3, 2013 (UTC)
  3. Inqvote The prelude still seems a bit long and focused on pre-Alderaan stuff, but overall good work. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 20:00, October 29, 2013 (UTC)
  4. Inqvote Sir Cavalier of OneFarStar(Squadron channel) 09:48, November 8, 2013 (UTC)
  5. Protectorate (talk) 22:50, November 26, 2013 (UTC)
  6. Inqvote CC7567 (talk) 18:27, December 26, 2013 (UTC)

Object

El Jefe
  • I don't know if the discussion of the Emperor's strategy of seizing worlds in the Core is really necessary, considering the fact that Rhen Var is an Outer Rim world. At the least, you should find a way to segue the Core and Outer Rim campaigns together better.
    • Retooled.
  • Is it the 45th Battalion or the Forty-fifth Battalion?
    • Switched.
  • What does "Over 600 losses" mean in the infobox? Casualties?
    • Fixed. Casualties.
  • "placed their casualties at 600 and that Rhen Var was in their control" Are these both the same "they"? Certainly seems like the first would be the Sith and the second would be the Republic.
    • Cleared it up.
  • Nice work. IFYLOFD (Enter the Floydome) 01:53, August 15, 2013 (UTC)
Attack of the Clone
  • Is there a source besides that cited Tweet that provides the c. 3653 BBY date? Under WP:CANON, only comments from Lucasfilm officials like Leland Chee (to my knowledge) should be considered canon. I don't mean any personal disrespect to Alexander Freed, but since his comment about the dating of the battle wasn't released through an official venue, I don't think it should be considered canon. That's not to say that the date is outright wrong—if it's ever repeated in an official source, it would be verifiable and usable. But until then, it should be noted in the Bts and not used in the IU part of the article.
    • Although I disagree with the idea that an author's statement should be discounted, you're correct that it's outside the purview of our canon policy. As for the dating, I've changed the source to the Encyclopedia. An exact date isn't given there, but it's placed in a timeline as being after the Blockade of the Hydian Way and before the Sacking of Coruscant, definitely towards the end of the war. That source (and the author's intent) pretty definitively indicates that the battle was sometime around 3653. For what it's worth, I only had the tweet in there because of the objection here. But now that I can source it to the Encyclopedia, I've left it at that and removed the reference to the tweet altogether; it would be an irrelevant BTS addition at this point.
      • Good, I was going to suggest that you check that, but I can't find my Encyclopedia. Glad you saw that. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 15:02, December 26, 2013 (UTC)
  • Ground warfare needs to be linked somewhere in the body (and possibly also in the intro). CC7567 (talk) 23:02, December 23, 2013 (UTC)

Comments

Approved as a Featured article by Inquisitorius 18:27, December 26, 2013 (UTC)