Wookipedia - WTH

aegisflashfire · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:39 pm Post subject: Wookipedia - WTH

ok, its April fools Day. But WTH is with Wookipedia using NSFW images on their front page just for a joke. Not cool.

shootingwomprats · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:47 pm Post subject:

I think this is a joke but wow in some seriously bad taste. My guess is MAYBE the site was hacked and this put in place as an April Fool's joke. We will see as the day goes by.
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jmanski · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, not in the best taste for sure.
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But you all went and looked didn't you? Wink

atgxtg · Rear Admiral Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 2460

Not the right sort of joke for a site like Wookieepedia. But I'm more disturbed by the "Wookieepedia Pro" stuff. Wookiee Pro would pretty much kill off the site.

Whill · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject:

Mikael Hasselstein · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:56 pm Post subject:

Dammit! Am I missing something lewd because I'm only on my phone right now?

Actually, if Wookieepedia were to go 'Pro' (which, I suppose Disney would have to authorize or organize), I think I would become a subscriber, though I'd be annoyed if they didn't make it better. I'm just on there too much to miss out on it.

That said, I'm sure it's an April fools joke.

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DougRed4 · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:14 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'd be pretty pissed if it went Pro. I'm hoping it was an April Fool's joke. Mad

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Mikael Hasselstein · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:41 pm Post subject:

Whill · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:16 pm Post subject:

There's nothing there about the subscription service now, so good! I read Wookieepedia all the time.

As far as the lewd material, it's no longer on the main page, but I was surprised to see there is still an entry for Breasts even on Wookieepedia. Yesterday the entry included made-up quotes from Han and Lando about the subject and had "informal" real-world slang terms, but those are gone now (as well as the comment about breast size being ambiguously canon, lol).

The entry itself has existed since 2011. What surprises me the most is that the main image for the entry is still there and a normal part of the entry. The talk page tells that there was a controversy about the use of the image and a 36-to-1 vote kept it on the page. It's from a book I don't have called Star Wars Art: Visions. It's nice artwork and I'm not offended, but was there ever really a need to paint soft erotica for a Star Wars book, and establish that the Jedi Aayla Secura sleeps in the nude?

I really question the necessity of even having an entry for Breasts on Wookieepedia too. The only value I saw in it was the mention of the fact that some non-mammalian species have breasts, which is a pet peeve of mine, but it doesn't provide too much info on the subject.
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DougRed4 · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:48 pm Post subject:

I'm almost surprised there's no mention of how Lucas insisted that Carrie Fisher not wear a bra during A New Hope, which apparently one can tell in running scenes.
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cheshire · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:51 pm Post subject:

She's said in an interview that she was tapped down to try to reduce the bounce effect during such scenes.
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DougRed4 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:53 am Post subject:

There you go. I knew there was something about 'bouncing'. I'm surprised there's nothing about that on that page; it's at least somewhat related to Star Wars.
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atgxtg · Rear Admiral Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 2460

I believe the quote was " There is no jiggle in space"

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