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The result of the debate was No image intros: use {{war}} instead.

VoteEdit

For image introsEdit

1. Jasca Ducato 11:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
2. KEJ 11:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
3. Jedi Dude 14:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Against image introsEdit

1. Breathesgelatin 00:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
2. Sikon [Talk] 00:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
3. Which is not to say an introductory image or two shouldn't be in a war article: but in the form in which they currently appear in articles like Jedi Civil War, they aren't "encylopedic", whatever that means exactly. —Silly Dan _(talk) 00:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
4. RMF 00:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
5. Mirlen 00:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
6. Sentry 05:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
7. Kwenn 09:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
8. jSarek 11:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
9. Danik Kreldin 01:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

DiscussionEdit

Do we really need these poetic introductions with image sequences in articles like Clone Wars, Jedi Civil War etc.? They serve no real purpose besides "eye-candy" and are usually vague as hell. Wookieepedia is an encyclopedia, not a writing style competition. - Sikon [Talk] 09:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• They're pretty silly, if you ask me. --Danik Kreldin 10:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The only point they serve is to fit a few extra images onto the page - but a "Gallery of <Battle> images" might be a better option. And surely a war infobox might also be useful? - Kwenn 10:16, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I think the serve well because they provide a brief run-down of the war (but with a bit of a spin), i don't mind if we keep them or not but i'd prefer it if we did. They just add "something" to the article. Jasca Ducato 11:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
      • We could keep them if they did indeed provide a run-down of the war, and not something that seems more at home in some angsty fanfic. Canonical statements as to the nature of the depicted points during the conflict would be more useful as image tags - Kwenn 12:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
        • As I stated on the Jedi Civil War talk page, I'm with Sikon on this one. I don't think the image combos serve much of a purpose and yet they cause a lot of issues:
          1. I believe that there are several inherent problems with uploading copyrighted, official images to a wiki that advertises itself as an encyclopedia and then adding fan written captions to those images that have little or nothing to do with the scene depicted.
          2. The image combos take up a lot space and they can seriously distort the visual balance and general structure of the page on which they are placed.
          3. Lastly, the combos are just plain distracting and I think that they undermine this wiki's professional look and feel as well as its fanon policies.--Sentry 04:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
        • Complete support for removal; I think a war infobox would be much better (we have them for battles, after all). RMF 00:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
          • Per RMF. (Should we set up a vote of some kind?) —Mirlen 00:08, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
            • I just did. - Breathesgelatin 00:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I made Template:War, should anyone want to use it. —Silly Dan _(talk) 00:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Looks good. :) —Mirlen 00:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, I reformated the Jedi Civil War article using the new war template. What about the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War articles? Personally, I'm not interested in starting an edit war, so I'll leave those for others to fix...--Sentry 07:13, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
    • We are having a discussion about the structure of the new war template over at the talk page. It would be nice to get some more input...--Sentry 10:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)