I apologize if I've violated some sort of community rule. It's generally polite to discuss major changes to an article on its associated discussion page BEFORE making them, thank you. In retrospect, it may have been better to submit a screencap rather than all 20-something game and novel covers, but oh well. On a related note, I've submitted a proposal to have the WC box covers included on this page under the Fair Use agreement. I'm not against the fluff text in general, since it adds a measure of realism and the entries would be pretty dry without it, but a line needs to be drawn between what follows directly and what doesn't. Well, there's two parts, basically: the stuff that isn't official but makes sense considering what we've seen (i.e., the Bearcat being obsolete and phased out of front-line service by WCP), and the purely "speculative" things ("monster"-type fighters, the Drakhri being merged with the Dralthi VI, etc.) - if someone wants to put their speculation on it, that's fine, but it's misleading to list it as fact, especially in an encyclopedia entry. Where does the "non-canon" stuff come from? Are randoms just making it up or what? Stan 19:01, (UTC) Of course, it'd be my preference if most of the non-canon stuff was expurgated entirely, as I don't really feel it's appropriate for a general-purpose encyclopedia as Wikipedia. I really believe that there also needs to be some sort of seperation between official and speculative stuff (or at least some kind of disclaimer), since maybe 40% of all the ship history is non-canon. Tkrajcar 18:43, (UTC)ĬIC has the raw stats of the fighters, but they don't really have a lot of the history or real-world links. Also, Ice/Phongn: Are you sure that wikipedia needs all of this information? I'm sure more than one external Wing Commander site (like the CIC) has this already it seems like a lot of work to go through just to mirror what someone else may have already done when you could just put a link to the site on the WC page. Could we put a "(Wing Commander)" suffix on them? DJ Clayworth 16:26, (UTC) Phantom, Banshee, Thunderbolt, Bearcat are all names of real-world aircraft and might be confusing. I do think some of the spaceship articles need disambiguation. There haven't been new Wing Commander games in some time (and EA is unlikely to resurrect the series). Well, Ice & I are willing to maintain it and the data, once entered, is more or less static, anyways. Might be worth considering moving to a separate page though. I thought this was excessive at first, too, and maybe it is, but as long as someone's willing to maintain it, it's not un-worth having. Do we absolutely need a separate entry for every type of ship in this computer game? DJ Clayworth 20:39, (UTC)Ībsolutely.
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