Discussions is Wookieepedia's forum for general Star Wars–related conversations. The forum does not use the same MediaWiki software as the wiki, but Fandom logins are shared between the sites. This means anyone with a Fandom account can also participate on Discussions.
Discussions can be accessed via the Fandom app or through the address starwars.fandom.com/f.
Forum Categories
Posts made on Discussions can be placed in one of several categories, which can be viewed individually using the forum's category filter. Links to individual category feed views are also included in the table below.
| Category name | Description |
|---|---|
| Announcements | Reporting on platform and rule updates regarding the Discussions forum or Wookieepedia as a whole. |
| Star Wars News | Reporting on breaking Star Wars news. |
| Memes/Fun | For memes, games, and quiz-formatted posts. |
| Community Projects | For permanent threads and recurring post series that users agree serve a community-building purpose. |
| Polls/Favorites | For poll-formatted posts. |
| Featured | For threads that users deem worthy of quality recognition, similar to featured articles on the wiki. |
| Fan Creations | For drawings, models, and other Star Wars–inspired art. |
| Theory/Analysis | For research-based conversations. |
| Hall of Fame | For threads that users agree to be relevant and essential to the forum's history. |
| General | For miscellaneous opinions, questions, and anything that doesn't fit into a more specific category. |
Rules
As a forum, Discussions has its own rule set, which overlaps with some, but not all, Wookieepedia policies.
- Stick to the facts. Opinion posts are welcome as long as they discuss existing information about Star Wars, either in-universe or out-of-universe.
- Stay on topic. A thread should continue discussing the topics set by the original post.
- Be mature and civil. Toxic behavior and buzz-phrases such as "Mary Sue" or "ruined Star Wars" will be deleted, as will trolling and personal attacks.
- Share the feed. Posts that repeat a topic discussed less than a week ago will be locked, and users may only post up to three polls in a 24-hour period. Forum vandalism will be deleted.
- Phrase posts positively. A post asking "what's the best?" prompts a great thread; a post asking "what's the worst?" does not.
- Follow spoiler policy. New content should be kept to one spoiler thread per topic, with a spoiler warning written in the post title. Leaks will be deleted.
- "Who would win?" posts are not allowed. Power-scaling in Star Wars is a futile effort.
- Politics or religion should not be discussed. They are off-topic unless discussed in comparison to Star Wars.
- No self-promotion or asking for upvotes. Additionally, wish lists, fanon, roleplay, and AI-generated content are part of what Wookieepedia is not and belong elsewhere.
- Use one account only. No sockpuppetry.
Posts that break these rules will be locked or deleted by a Discussions moderator. Repeat offenders may be subject to blocking by an administrator, though usually only in extreme cases.
Guidelines
Supplementary to the Discussions rules are the Discussions Guidelines, which exist to support the rules and further encourage proper forum discourse. They include tips on writing posts and links to important resource threads as added by moderators.
Moderation
The forum rules and guidelines are enforced by Discussions moderators, whose moderation rights are fully listed on Special:ListGroupRights. All administrators have Discussions moderation rights, as do Fandom staff and Global Discussions moderators, but Wookieepedia's Discussions moderators are the primary users expected to use their moderation tools to enforce site policies on the forum and serve the interests of the Wookieepedia community as active leaders.
Discussions Moderators
Responsibilities
While moderators have access to certain features and are therefore responsible for maintaining them via moderation rights, the wider Wookieepedia community is encouraged to request changes, such as reporting posts that may violate the forum rules; moderators should act on such suggestions as policies permit. The Ask A Mod A Question thread is the main way to contact moderators on the forum.
The main responsibilities of Discussions moderators are listed below.
- Lock, edit, delete, and/or undelete posts in accordance with the forum rules and guidelines.
- Modify the guidelines for important notices, links to useful posts, and general advice on best practices for forum users.
- Manage the local Special:DiscussionsAbuseFilter to moderate additional posts, such as preventing certain types of posts from being created.
- Refer accounts to the Wookieepedia administration for blocking in accordance with the Blocking policy.
- Nominate additional Discussions moderators for promotion in accordance with Requests for user rights, and announce the successful promotion of new moderators on the forum itself.
- Propose and vote on changes to forum-related policies on the Consensus track, and announce any such changes made to the rules or guidelines on the forum itself.
- Update the Discussions index as an official record of posts made on the forum.
Additionally, moderators automatically receive server moderator status ("Discussions Mods" role) on Wookieepedia's official Discord server and have the ability to kick and ban users in accordance with the server rules. They may also use the server's #announcements channel to relay announcements and major posts from the forum, such as Monday Morning Coffee posts.
Activity requirements
Moderators should meet a regular level of productivity. Those who are unable should place the {{Vacation}} template or a similar message at the top of their userpage.
A moderator who does not make use of their moderation tools at least once within a six-month span of their tenure is eligible for removal. However, the moderator must first be cautioned by another moderator or administrator if the requirements are not being met. They may explain their relative inactivity and provide an expected date for returning to the required activity levels. The moderator shall be warned about their activity levels if they fail to achieve the activity requirements by their specified date; demotion will occur if they fail to either provide or adhere to another explanation and expected date of return.
Also, if a moderator has not posted or used their moderation tools for four months, then attempts to communicate should be made, including a warning—which should be repeated at five months of absence—that they shall be demoted at six months of absence.
Moderator autonomy
In a similar principle adhered to by administrators, a moderator may not unilaterally overturn any moderation action by another moderator without a group consensus from the rest of the moderator team. The basis of this policy is that moderators are responsible for enforcing forum policies as a group, trusting each other with appropriately using their powers, such as locking and deleting posts, to keep the Discussions forum running as smoothly as possible.