Wookieepedia:Good article nominations/Rebel Friend/Legends

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Rebel Friend

Nominated by: —Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 04:58, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
Nomination comments:This guy was cool. Part of WP:VG.

Clone Commander Lee ^Talk 14:03, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
graestan^(talk) 17:57, January 24, 2012 (UTC)
Lego my eggo! Corellian Premier^{All along the watchtower} 04:24, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
Toprawa and Ralltiir 03:36, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
Yay for non-canon characters! Hanzo Hasashi 22:52, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
Menkooroo 21:00, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
501st Dogma^(Comlink) 22:14, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
Grand Moff Tranner ^(Comlink) 19:00, February 25, 2012 (UTC)

~~Sure that "Rebel Friend" is the correct title? Would not "A Rebel Friend" be correct, as there are many friends of the Alliance throughout the galaxy?~~
- That's what they call him in the game, so I believe that's as good as we can get.
~~Please add context for the stormtroopers, e.g. "Imperial".~~
- Done.
~~Can we source the basic stuff from the capture of the ship to the game? I don't think so.~~
- Most of it we can. The stuff about what the name of the Imperial ship was I sourced to something else now.
At the time of the battle above Tatooine, he wore a red shirt with a black vest, gray pants, and a white and black helmet. He also carried a blaster at the time.: Please replace one of the "the time"s.
- Done.
~~No mention/info in the game guides?~~
- Checking on that right now. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
  - Ok, I'll strike once you are done. Clone Commander Lee ^Talk 10:23, January 15, 2012 (UTC)
    - Thanks to a lot of help from Tope, it's taken care of.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 04:14, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
      - Could you mention this in the BtS then ? Clone Commander Lee ^Talk 14:32, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
        Mentioned.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 20:21, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
Good work. Clone Commander Lee ^Talk 09:59, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 17:32, January 14, 2012 (UTC)

~~Is it worth mentioning expanding the bts a bit to explain that he is a unique individual (instead of a generic rebel trooper), who is controllable if there are two players?~~
- Added.
This is funny, great stuff! Corellian Premier^{All along the watchtower} 15:41, January 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 17:32, January 14, 2012 (UTC)

This is going to sound insane: There is a lot of stuff that the game doesn't exactly spell out, for instance that a tractor beam was used to capture the Tantive IV. Could you perhaps go through the article and source whatever the game doesn't explicitly state to Episode IV? That would tie up some loose ends. Alternately, wording tweaks could handle it but would probably shorten the article considerably. graestan^(talk) 21:43, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
- Sourced what I could. The rest of the stuff can be sourced to the game, IMO.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 02:56, January 21, 2012 (UTC)

As a minor sourcing nitpick, the book Vader: The Ultimate Guide actually states the Devastator is an ISD-I, whereas the image illustrating the Pocketmodel thing does not tell us this. I would suggest using the Vader book to reference this bit instead: "the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Devastator."
- Done.
I took some liberty in making some wording variations and inserting several paragraph breaks throughout the text. Please let me know if any of my changes are not to your liking. Toprawa and Ralltiir 22:42, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like good stuff. Thanks for the review.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 03:29, February 13, 2012 (UTC)

Even if it's his name in the game, I can't help but feel like {{Nickname}} would be appropriate at the top of the article. Plenty of nicknames are the only names we ever know and get the bolded treatment, and IMO this definitely seems like one of those cases. Menkooroo 19:28, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
- Added. However, I'm not fully convinced on this since the {{Nickname}} template says that the article is about a canonical subject, while this is not. Since he was referred to in the game only as "Rebel Friend" and since the game is non-canon anyway, shouldn't the template be left out?—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 20:52, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
  - I think the best solution would be to see if an admin could alter the wording of the template from "canonical" to something like "official." I seem to remember a Senate Hall thread about this not too long ago that had support for the idea. Menkooroo 21:00, February 15, 2012 (UTC)
    - Edit: I think the thread was for {{Conjecture}}, actually. That template is always used in non-canon articles despite asserting "canonical information;" we oughtta get both templates changed. Menkooroo 21:07, February 15, 2012 (UTC)

Approved as a Good article by AgriCorps 19:00, February 25, 2012 (UTC)