Wookieepedia:Featured article nominations/Skirmish over Lothal

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Skirmish over Lothal

Nominated by: Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 14:41, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Nomination comments: Back with another early rebels encounter!
Date Archived: 16:37, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
Final word count: 1426 words (186 introduction, 1083 body, 157 behind the scenes)
Word count at nomination time: 1329 words (186 introduction, 1022 body, 121 behind the scenes)
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Support votes

Wonderful work! Sorry for all my messages lolEditoronthewiki (talk) 19:36, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
SorcererSupreme21 (talk) 08:08, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
Master Fredcerique(talk) (he/him) 05:43, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
StarWarsFan327 (talk) 17:46, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
Lewisr (talk) 03:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
—spookywilloww^talk 17:55, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
love how you've reconciled the different points of view OOM 224 17:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
CometSmudge (talk) 16:35, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Objections

Lew

~~The first section in Aftermath is honestly rather big and I think it should be subsectioned~~ Lewisr (talk) 15:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
~~The use of disabled should be changed~~ Lewisr (talk) 15:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
~~The Spark teaser should be noted as the first reveal of the event~~ Lewisr (talk) 15:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
~~I'd like to see these checked thoroughly, especially some of the early era videos, for any sort of reference~~ Lewisr (talk) 15:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- The above are handled, except for the fourth bullet. I'll continue reviewing those sources. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 17:10, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
  - Quick update: still going through these, but I've gone through the early era videos. Other than the Spark and Ignite teasers, there's no footage of the skirmish. There is footage from Property of Ezra Bridger, but I'm drawing the line at whether it was the skirmish or the aftermath of the skirmish. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 01:10, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
    - I've gone through the sources from 2014 (the most likely ones to have references to this). I'll continue looking, but adding this here as an update since I'm not sure how far you want me to go to satisfy the objection. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 19:14, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
      - I've had more time today than I expected, so I went through all sources on the Rebels page through 2015. I believe I only had to add one thing to the skirmish page as a result. I think that should cover it. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 01:19, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
        Hey Lew, any further guidance here? - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 01:50, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
        Sorry, been a little pre-occupied with some other status related stuff, as long as they've been checked then all should be good, struck Lewisr (talk) 04:19, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
        Awesome, thanks! - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 13:07, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
~~The gender links should be removed since we don't link like that on pronouns anymore~~ Lewisr (talk) 22:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Done. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 01:39, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
~~The BTS has room for an image~~ Lewisr (talk) 22:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- I don't have a great image for this. The only concept art I have found, in Insider 153, is cut off. Any suggestions for the best way to deal with that? The alternative could be using concept art from the aftermath, for the main events of Property of Ezra Bridger, if that's fine with you. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 01:39, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
  - It could just be one of the covers in which it debuted with a caption that it appeared in said book, or the rebels S1 poster with a suitable caption. If either work for you Lewisr (talk) 02:33, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
    - That works for me. I added the S1 poster. I right-aligned the image, even though the previous image was right-aligned, since it would mess with the header formatting otherwise. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 03:04, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Editor

~~I still believe there is more information to squeeze out of Ezra and the Pilot, I can point out specifics on Discord or right here if you prefer~~ Editoronthewiki (talk) 18:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
- I went through it and thought I caught anything of relevance, but if you want to DM me on Discord feel free! Probably easier to work through it there. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 20:06, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
  - Editor and I talked on Discord, and their suggested edits have been added. Click here for the revisions. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 00:07, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    - Only thing left to add is the book describing Ezra pounding on the window of the TIE, but we see in the short and even the image the book includes that it was actually the back he was knocking on. A hilarious "contradiction"/"mistake" as its still something to note as a difference between versions in BTS even though its such a minor thing lol Editoronthewiki (talk) 01:35, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
      - Talked to Brandon and decided not actually relevant to the skirmish Editoronthewiki (talk) 19:36, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Comet

~~Could you include a link to Early rebellion against the Galactic Empire somewhere in the body, since it's currently only in the infobox~~
- Done. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 22:13, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
~~I might be missing something, but what's the purpose of reference 12 after "After joining the crew" in the last paragraph? It looks like it's there to support a date that isn't actually mentioned.~~ CometSmudge (talk) 18:15, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
- It's basically acting as a dating reference without the date, to explicitly point out (similar to other references for books like this) when it was published. It just doesn't use a date since I don't believe the book itself gives one (although it would appear to be 5 BBY). - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 22:13, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
  - Assuming that Rebel Journal supports the fact that Ezra was with the Specters when he wrote it, the extra reference seems unnecessary, since there's no need to reference something that isn't actually in the article. CometSmudge (talk) 00:22, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
    - I had a conversation with Spooky about this since she's the one who has asked me for these sorts of refs previously. The result is that I've added "that same year" to "After joining the crew" and kept the date reference. Since the date is not explicitly stated in the book, it's inferred from the fact that the book ends as Ezra joins the crew, so a reference is needed to establish 5 BBY as the date for all of that. - Brandon Rhea^(talk)(he/him/his) 16:30, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Approved as a Featured article by Inquisitorius 16:35, 21 September 2025 (UTC)