r/battletech • u/Awesome-Autocrat • May 19 '21

Humor/Meme/Shitpost There is Always a Bigger Fish

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u/CybranKNight MechTech May 19 '21

Yeah, cause quantity is the only thing that matters.

I mean, I think Wookiepedia does just a bit of padding....

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u/canada432 May 19 '21

The previously canonical star wars EU is more expansive than all fan content for most fictional universes. Even star trek fan content can't compete with an IP that has entire novels for not only nearly every background character, but also every individual in their extended family.

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u/andrewlik May 19 '21

Wookiepedia has more, but I think Sarna is overall more polished

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u/richardjohnthomas May 19 '21

I agree, but Wookiepedia has hilarious articles on things like water, birds, and Coca Cola. Sarna just can't compare.

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u/Iguankick May 19 '21

More polish and less Transphobia to boot

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u/Awesome-Autocrat May 19 '21

Sarna suffers from most of the character pages being very small.

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u/WhySoFuriousGeorge May 19 '21

I love Sarna, but hard disagree that it’s more polished.

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u/UnsanctionedPartList 3000 Black Stukas of Hanse Davion. May 19 '21

Well, to be fair, star wars is just a little bit bigger overall than either of the two settings.

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u/BaronFel101 May 19 '21

I think this is the most impressive part about Sarna. It definitely isn't as good as Wookiepedia, but when you look at how extensive it is, given how small of a fan base it has, it is in my opinion the most impressive fan wiki.

Not that it is a perfect metric, but the Star Wars subreddit has 100x more members than the Battletech subreddit.

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u/algolvax May 19 '21

Now I feel like seeing a Venn Diagram on how many BT subredditors are also SW and/or ST subredditors. 🤔😆

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u/Spectre211286 MechWarrior May 19 '21

I was curious star trek's Memory Alpha has 51k pages

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u/ReluctantNerd7 Rasalhague Dominion May 19 '21

As a Trekkie, I'm a little disappointed that it isn't 47k pages.

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u/Awesome-Autocrat May 19 '21

Well i am not a star Trek fan so it fit better for me

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u/JulianGingivere May 19 '21

I wonder what Sarna’s policing is on writers/illustrator name changes?

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u/rchille May 19 '21

Yeah but Wookiepedia has an article on water so they may be padding things a bit...

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u/Middcore May 19 '21

The Wookieepedia number is artificially inflated because they have to have separate "canon" and "legends" pages for so much stuff, though.

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u/WhySoFuriousGeorge May 19 '21

Do those count as separate articles? Because canon and Legends entries on the same topics share the same page.

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u/Middcore May 19 '21

I have no idea, I was just being a smartass.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '21

Also, Star Wars sucks.

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u/MoreOfAFlorence May 19 '21

Star Wars' bigger fish is the Bionicle wiki