Wookieepedia:Featured article nominations/Or Die Trying

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Or Die Trying

  • Nominated by: Menkooroo 04:19, October 11, 2010 (UTC)
  • Nomination comments: I'm going to get this article to featured status.

    ............

    OR DIE TRYING!!!!!!!!!!!

(5 Inqs/1 Users/6 Total)

Support

  1. Inqvote Keep this good stuff coming! Jonjedigrandmaster (Talk) 14:53, October 18, 2010 (UTC)
  2. Ditto. Heritage of the Sith, perhaps?—Jedi Kasra (comlink) 01:39, October 19, 2010 (UTC)
  3. Inqvote Great! Now write up the other NJO short stories. Xicer9Atgar(Combadge) 05:11, October 22, 2010 (UTC)
  4. Inqvote Green Tentacle (Talk) 15:52, November 13, 2010 (UTC)
  5. Inqvote CC7567 (talk) 23:49, November 26, 2010 (UTC)
  6. Inqvote --Eyrezer 19:33, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Object

Jujiggum
  • In the Plot Summary, it's not clear that Rendar was the one who programmed the building to self-destruct; it sounds kinda like it decided to do so of its own accord. :P
    • Maybe the building was an HRD too? :^P Clarified!
  • "Many novels taking place after The Unifying Force have been written, but none of them have referenced the events of Or Die Trying." I'm not sure that it's enough to source this statement to just Joiner King, Betrayal, Millennium Falcon, and Outcast; there have been tons of other novels, too. To fully cover this, you'd have to source it to Millennium Falcon, Crosscurrent, and the entire Dark Nest, LotF, and FotJ series.
    • I've changed the TJK ref to the entire Dark Nest trilogy, and the Betrayal ref to all of LOTF. I hope I won't have to update that sentence every time a new book is published, though; I was hoping to give just a few examples so that it wouldn't be unreferenced, but I kinda see it as similar to a common bts statement that says "XY book was YX's only appearance in canon", which doesn't need to reference every canon thing ever published. Thoughts?
      • Actually, that's a good point: it is just as self-sourcing as saying "This book was so-and-so's only appearance," so, I guess it doesn't really need anything more. Up to you whether you want to leave it sourced as it is or just not source it at all, I'm fine with it either way. Jonjedigrandmaster (Talk) 14:53, October 18, 2010 (UTC)
  • Also, as a comment—remember that "HRDs" signifies multiple HRDs, the use of "HRD's" to do so is inccorect. "HRD's" is like saying "Menkooroo's:" it indicates a possessive instead of indicating multiples of something.
    • Thank you for sofixing my mistake's! Your comment's are very helpful.
  • Very, very nice work. You need to just up and start that OOU project already. Also, you win at nomination comments forever. Jonjedigrandmaster (Talk) 02:19, October 18, 2010 (UTC)
    • Ah, thanks. I'd be lying if I said that nomination comments weren't 95% of the reason I nom articles. Menkooroo 02:36, October 18, 2010 (UTC)
Eyrezer
  • "Or Die Trying was the final chapter of The New Jedi Order to be written and published." I wonder about this. Would not Boba Fett: A Practical Man be consider a later "chapter" in the NJO? --Eyrezer10:46, December 1, 2010 (UTC)
    • It's set during the New Jedi Order era, but there's never been any indication that it's part of The New Jedi Order series. It's kinda like Invasion. Menkooroo 11:22, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Comments

Approved as a Featured article by Inquisitorius 19:33, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

  • "Or Die Trying" comes up in an interview with Sean Williams on this week's edition of Star Wars Action News: here. It's early in the interview, and it's brief, but it might be worth checking just in case there's a nugget to mine for this article. ~ SavageBob 21:05, October 19, 2010 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the link! ODT is just mentioned as an aside by the interviewer, and Williams doesn't say anything about it. But I really enjoyed the review in the podcast of The Making of The Empire Strikes Back. Definitely have to order that soon. Menkooroo 05:00, October 20, 2010 (UTC)
      • I, for one, felt vindicated when Williams said he uses Wookieepedia to look up obscure alien species to populate his stories with. :) OK, time to review your article... ~ SavageBob 15:24, October 20, 2010 (UTC)
        • Unless by obscure, he means the Ssi-ruu! :P --Eyrezer 19:31, December 1, 2010 (UTC)
  • Vectorized the logo for you. NAYAYEN 19:42, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
    • Great! I don't know what Vectorized means, but it looks a lot better, so thank you. :^) Menkooroo 00:22, October 25, 2010 (UTC)