People give it more credit than it deserves. It's a fan-made document, not anything official, and as such, holds no credibility whatsoever. Not to mention wikipedias are prone to misinformation (but then again, so do official sources).

And then there are the Edit Wars...

Although this leads to a question - which is more likely to carry misinformation: major articles, where vandals are more likely to visit, or minor stubs, where it may often remain uncorrected?

What he said (MO)- sprinkled with- some newer fans will go there- read up- and come in thinking they're ammo'ed up to support their argument, and then it's all a error.

Heck most the time for me- I read something that's wrong or new- All I want is a scource- cause if it's new I want to get it and read it- if it's fandom that's leaked in it doesn't help anything.

The problem is many feel they can trust WHATEVER they read there. Which as MO showed from the Wook itself- just isn't always true.

Since there is no way to fix it- the Wook will continue to get flack IMO.

Still I LOVE THE WOOK! Just wish for it to be always accurate or more accurate.

Wookiepedia is very informative, but it's not considered an official source. I think that's the point that many try to make here when people add Wook links to their posts, as if it's evidence. It's not.

From the Wook itself...

"Although good Wookieepedians make efforts to verify factual accuracy, none of the information on Wookieepedia is guaranteed to be accurate. It's usually a good idea to check other sources if you want to be sure about something."

Seems to me that there's a lot of flak on this forum against Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki. I'm curious as to why.

I understand that the concept of wiki can lead to vandalism and errors, but I think that the vast majority of articles are sources as well as possible, and vandalism is typically detected and reverted quickly and efficiently.

I remember on the Timeline Gold page, people were disparaging the Wook for having "created" a second Chu'unthor, saying it was complete fanon that Wookieepedia contributors came up with and that it was widely accepted by others just because it was there. It was only several days later that these disparagers were told that it was a legitimate retcon in the New Essential Guide to Characters, because Kevin J. Anderson tried to tie Darksaber into other work, saying that Callista was trained on the Chu'unthor and that he didn't realize it had crashed several centuries prior. So the retcon was that there were two such ships.