[edit] Slogan

_{Written by Darth tom}

Currently, the newsletter has yet to receive any additional slogans aside from the one created by Darth tader which was mentioned in last week’s edition. We would love to have any others that users might be able to think of. If anyone wishes to submit a suggestion, please do so here at your earliest convenience. Also, a proposal in the Consensus Track to make the CUSWFN an official part of the Wiki failed, as it was deemed unnecessary for it to become a fully official part of the Wiki.

Additionally, there is a specialist review written by Darth tom on the article Battle of Geonosis (New CIS/GDE Wars) by Troyb. This can be found on the SWF News page. In addition to this, CUSWFN is always looking for anyone who would like to write an article for an edition. Articles on your own projects throughout the Wiki are the preferred types, but general articles on Star Wars media such as the upcoming live action Star Wars television series would also be appreciated. They can be placed here as well.

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Meet a User!
Todays Meet a User is C3PO the Dragon Slayer the Supreme Chancellor! C3PO is one of the longest serving users here, amongst other users like Jasca Ducato, having first joined in May 2006, but it wasn't until that June when he started editing. After joining, he became one of the first Decreton Lords, becoming one in Spring 2007, but, unfortunately, he left the Decreton Lords, after accusations of laziness, but he was also one of the first administrators here, alongside such users as the now inactive StarNeptune and Bub. In the first real election for administrative powers, C3PO gained the position of a Supreme Chancellor, a bureacrat, after a community vote. Although C3 doesn't tend to write many articles, he voices his opinion on many important matters in and around the wiki, and is ever present working upon the much looked forward to game Avian Hunt, however he has had two FA's. He is universally known as an inclusionist, and other users believe he 'balances' the administrators here. Other users have criticized his inactivity, however this has little basis, as he's always present or working upon Avian Hunt; I for one have never had a message of mine left unanswered on his talk page! We're all looking forwards to the finished version of Avian Hunt!

CUSWFN edition XII
CUSWFN EXII

[edit] Date change

_{Written by Darth tom}

Due to personal restrictions, the release dates for future releases of the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter have been changed from Sunday to Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. However, we will continue to bring you all of the news that you need! Such is the case today with an excellent editorial on Dark Troopers, written by master critic and High Priest MPK. We also have updates on all news, both Star Wars Fanon and CUSWFN based! We have a great crossword for you based on the excellent article Narod Antrell written by Squishy Vic, and a new sponsorship system for all fan-based projects on this Wiki! We're also happy to announce the return of a great Star Wars Fanon helper, Michaeldsuarez, which you can read about in the CUSWFN news section. Featured on this page is also the Meet a User for CurrentBigThing.

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Meet a User!
This week's subject of Meet a User is CurrentBigThing (CBT), one of the current yet only semi-active Administrators on Star Wars Fanon! CBT has had a mostly successful past while on the Wiki, though he has had somewhat of a darker side as well. Famous for his rants and non-touchy feely ideals, CBT has helped to greatly improve the content and reputation of the Wiki through his ideals. A passionate writer and known deletionist, CBT has even been likened to Jacen Solo; willing to go to extraordinary lengths for what he believes in. He first joined Star Wars fanon around the February of 2007; around a year before me! CBT once said that one of the reasons he joined was because of how much he enjoyed the article Ussej Padric Bac II, written by fellow Administrator Brandon Rhea.

CBT has three Formerly Featured Articles and two Good Articles, and many users have lamented the fact that his time away meant that his articles fell into disrepair and were made Formerly Featured Articles because of the raised standards. His first article to achieve any sort of status was Darth Faust, and it was around June 2007 when he was invited to be a Decreton Lord. After not being able to keep up with his duties, he left the Decreton Lords, but he became an administrator on June 27, 2007. He became an inactive Administrator later, in a self imposed exile, after an unfortunate incident with another user. However, he remains an Administrator to this day.

CBT, like other users, was a big part of the Wiki's cleaning up, notably during the purge of uncategorized articles in Summer 2007. He gets inspiration from the people around him, as well as listening to music while writing. He's planning to return and become more active here, although technical restraints have confined him to quite a small position of support. He's a very good and helpful user, and has always deigned to reply to all the few messages I've left him.
CUSWFN edition XIII
CUSWFN EXIII

[edit] Darthipedia Supplement

_{Written by Darth tom}

Over the IRC, the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter was able to convince Gonk, the founder of Darthipedia, the Star Wars Humor Wiki, to write a Darthipedia section for the news. This will continue on through the weeks and will be devoted to the going ons of Darthipedia. We are happy to hear that Gonk, the best man for the job, will be occassionally writing this section which will appear in CUSWFN News. Thanks, Gonk!

In addition to this, we also have a Meet a User with Michaeldsuarez, as well as looking at the fantastic Force Exile series, written by the literary expert Atarumaster88! This weeks Star Wars News will be packed with news, as the wiki's heaving with the stuff! We hope you enjoy this edition, and please be aware that there might not be an edition in two weeks time (not next edition, but the one after) week, due to Darth tom's personal circumstances, though Brandon Rhea has volunteered to handle it. If there is no edition, then CUSWFN will resume again after that week.

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Meet a User!

_{Written by Darth tom}

This week's subject of Meet a User is Michaeldsuarez! Unfortunately, Michael did not reply to the questionnaire that was sent to him, so this will be briefer than previous Meet a Users. The first thing that will shock you about him is that his article category contains only 5 fanonical works! You may be asking, swhy is he Meet a User? Well, if we are the cogs and machinery of Star Wars Fanon, Michael is the oil and brush, polishing and cleaning up the wiki in general. Best known for clearing up double redirects, adding categories and fixing other mess ups, he's been a valuable help to this wiki, despite not being a fanon writer by trade! He has written the Force Maverck saga, a little known yet well written saga of which his works relate. Having been here since May 18, 2007, he's made a fair few edits. 60.27 % of his edits have been completely separate from the Main Namespace, and most of the ones in the main namespace have been grammar fixes, or changes to double redirects! He really is the 'Janitor' of the wiki, and we hope his sabbatical has seen him come back and ready to help us once more!
CUSWFN edition XIII
CUSWFN EXIII

[edit] Retirement

_{Written by Darth tom}

Retirement is not a word I release to you through happiness, and I'm not finding it easy to retire, but retiring I am. In three editions time, I will be leaving CUSWFN. Why am I doing this? To those few who knew what was happening before hand, that was the question they all asked. Well, there are many reasons. If I do become a High Priest, I will have reviewing duties, and I want to be able to think: 'Ah yes. Three hours spare so I can settle down and do a nice, long, in depth review.' And I would be reviewing those articles better because of it. In addition to this, CUSWFN was the making of me on this wiki, yet it also is a problem for me. I have only two good articles, and I feel that I can do better, and I'd like some time to better concentrate on my articles. In addition, I feel I can do the community better in different ways, and I want people to remember me in a way that says: 'Oh. He's left. That's a shame.'

I feel that if I carry on for much longer, people will get bored, and I don't want that. Will CUSWFN die with my retirement? I hope not. I have had reason to believe CUSWFN will be carried on, although by who I do not yet know. It was one of my favorite things about the Wiki, and I feel loathe to let it go, yet I must. I'd just like to thank everyone who's helped me: Brandon Rhea especially, for all the editorial work he's put in, users like MPK who wrote articles, people like Atarumaster88 who allowed us to write articles about their fanon, and users like C3PO the Dragon Slayer and Drewton who were the only users to thank me for giving out editions. There will be people I've forgotten in this list, and I'm sorry, but I thank you anyway.

The successor will be decided in the forum, and you'll also notice that there's no activities page this week. I apologize, but time constraints were too much. Hope you enjoy it anyway!

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Meet a User!

_{Written by Darth tom}

Unit 8311 is well known by many recipients of CUSWFN as, despite having no official status, and he has been a great contributor to Project Cruentus. After the fanon restrictions on Wookieepedia, Unit 8311, like many users, came to put his userpage fanon here. He enjoyed it so much, he stayed! He currently has four Featured articles, those being his namesake article, Unit 8311, Steel Legion, Club StarDust and Battle of Nar Shaddaa (GDE/Legion). His two sole Good articles are Ferd Swqaru and Star Wars: Legion Commando.

Unit’s first Featured Article was Steel Legion, and his first Good Article was his namesake. He's done a lot for Project Cruentus, and he's made a lot of contributions to the Wiki. Unit generates and expands random ideas, yet he also gets inspiration from existing Star Wars stories, and he doesn't like writing about Jedi and Sith, preferring the underworld of Star Wars. In terms of other science fiction, he's a watcher of Doctor Who, and he (real random one here) enjoys eating Asian food, according to himself. He's often been criticized for being unable to take criticism, however I feel he's improving here.
CUSWFN edition XIII
CUSWFN EXIII

[edit] This week

_{Written by Darth tom}

So, what do we have for you this edition? This week, the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon newsletter will become Wikia’s joint-oldest newsletter, though we will have more on that next week when we become Wikia’s oldest newsletter! We have an article on the up and coming Legacy of Rella series, and a Meet a User that spotlights Force Exile series writer and creator Atarumaster88. We also have news on the conclusion of numerous forum discussions, as well as updates on Project Cruentus.

The forums, most notably the Senate Hall, have had a lot of discussions recently, with the Senate Hall having five at the same time! In addition to this, we see the retirement of Dexington and the two users that are succeeding him as High Priests. We unfortunately are lacking a Darth Dispatch from Darthipedia this week, but we do have a new idea proposed by Arav the Undersith that you can look at. You will also undoubtedly notice that there is no Activities section again, and this is because Microsoft Paint on my computer has not been working.

Enjoy this addition!

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Meet a User!

_{Written by Darth tom}

This weeks subject for Meet a User is Atarumaster88, the author of the brilliant Force Exile series of fan fiction novels. Up until only a short while ago I had never heard of Ataru, despite being a very small-time contributor to Wookieepedia. I did eventually hear of him, and since then have heard much of his “exploits”. Ataru joined Star Wars Fanon roughly one year ago on April 29, 2007. Surprisingly enough, he has never written an article, aside from those showcasing his fan fiction novels, which he’s been working on for the past year and a half! He has over twenty Featured Articles and Good Articles on Wookieepedia, though nothing but the Force Exile series here.

Ataru has done a great deal of reviewing of other fan fiction, most notably for Brandon Rhea and Squishy Vic in their Alternative Star Wars Saga. He has also helped out around Star Wars Fanon by commenting in forums and discussions. Ataru gets a lot of his inspiration from many different places, such as images, magazines, role-playing and the loose ends of Star Wars canon. He has been told his writing style resembles that of Michael Reeves and, to a lesser extent, Steve Perry who is known for his novels Death Star and the MedStar Duology. Ataru has, ironically, been forced to ban people for fanon on Wookieepedia, despite being a supporter of the idea of fanon here on Star Wars Fanon.

Because of the numerous reviews that Ataru has done, he has been highly praised. Brandon Rhea, for example, has spoken very highly of him. When Rhea posted his second draft of the now on-hold Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac, all of the reviews he was getting was lush praise. In his own words, “then Ataru came along”. Ataru was very critical in his review of the novel and the way it was written, and at first Rhea disagreed. However, he eventually realized that Ataru was correct and he was able to greatly improve his writing because of it. Rhea credits a great deal of the success of Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One and the anticipated success of Star Wars: Chronicles of the Great War to Ataru’s reviews of his work.

Looking at everything that has been said about him, it is hard for anyone to doubt that Ataru has had a tremendous impact on many Star Wars Fanon users. He comes highly recommended as a reviewer, though those that seek him out should understand that he has many preferences when it comes to writing that can be found on his user page.
CUSWFN edition XVI
CUSWFN EXVI

[edit] Record breaker!

_{Written by Darth tom}

Today, CUSWFN makes history. With the release of this edition, CUSWFN becomes Wikia’s oldest newsletter, both in time and releases, having run, and released more editions, than Halopedia’s Oracle Newsletter, with a total of seventeen editions, beating Halopedia’s 16! Today, in CUSWFN News, we’ll be taking a look at the changes of CUSWFN, the Meet a Users, the glory times, the fail times, and the good, the bad, and the ugly, to use a popular phrase.

In addition to this, we have a Media article on Avian Hunt, the game conceived and created by C3PO the Dragon Slayer, and a test version has been released, which I’m reviewing this edition, with screenshots from in game and all! The news from Star Wars Fanon features this weeks updates, as well as CUSFWN news featuring the last updates you’ll receive from me about Project Cruentus, as well as my last cartoon and crossword, which returns, as my MS Paint has decided to work once more!

As well as this, it’s poignant that, in my last edition, who should be the Meet a User but Squishy Vic, one of the most hard working but least praised users on Star Wars Fanon, and one who has helped me, as well as many others, in the past, and has never been the Meet a User before.

So, enjoy this addition!

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Meet a User!

_{Written by Darth tom}

The subject for this weeks Meet a User is Squishy Vic, the Supreme chancellor and Decreton Lord! Vic first lurked in in mid 2006, reading articles like NKSCF and Jasca Ducato, the Star Wars Fanon ‘classics’, yet he didn’t officially join until October 6th of that very year, and, since then, has written 20 articles worthy of status, ten of them being Good articles and ten Featured articles, with only three of each being only GA’s and only FA’s, the other 14 being both. Vic also holds the status of being one of the original Decreton Lords, along with Jedi Master 76 and Jasca Ducato, the others being the only other original DL’s to remain as current ones, and it didn’t end there. Vic was made an administrator, after a standard election, on April 30 2007, over a year ago, after the election began on March 31.

In terms of his work, Vic feels that Narod Antrell and his spin off articles have been his most valuable contributions to the wiki, but he’s also been involved in many cleanup articles, being an administrator like he is. Narod Antrell was also his first FA, and he also holds the record of having the first ever Good article on this site, Si'va Morrer. In terms of inspiration, Vic gets it from many sources, such as Star Wars, where we all do, such as cartoons, video games and comics. He’s opposed to the New Jedi Order series, and never will, according to himself, read it, calling it ‘Yuuzhan Vong crap’, or the Palpatine’s clones works, and he also gains inspiration from other fictional sources. These include Halo, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Starship Troopers and many other series of fictional nature. Out of fictional inspiration, Vic gains inspiration from people such as CurrentBigThing and Jedi Master 76, creating characters based on them, as well as gaining inspiration from his family, such as the character Hunab, named after his dog.

In terms of edits, 45.32% of his edits have been in the main namespace, a true testimony to how hard he works. How so? Well, he’s an administrator, and often greets or messages new, or current, users regarding policies, but still works hard enough to write such articles. So, in terms of personality. At first, when I joined this wiki, I believed Vic to be quite officious, yet my view has been changed so much, from actually speaking to him, over talk pages and the IRC, and he’s a nice guy. I admire a lot of his work, and his reputation speaks for itself.

Also! If you wish to block these appalling ads wikia's using, just go to the central wiki and paste this code (thanks to Drewton for this) into User:yourusername/global.css
CUSWFN edition XVII
CUSWFN EXVII

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_{Written by Unit 8311}

Welcome to another issue of CUSFWN. In today's issue, we have more stuff to present to you, from interviews with profific authors on this site such as Brandon Rhea, CurrentBingThing, Darth tom, and others. As before, we've strived to have an extensive SWF media section, with essays and reviews from the likes of myself, Drewton, and MPK. Expect plenty to keep you occupied there.

We'll also have news, as usual, covering recent events such as the The Fourth Wiki Awards, the status of Project Cruentus, and other events on the wiki. We'll also take the opportunity to wish you a happy new year (a few weeks late, yes), and prosperous writing.

I will also take the opportunity to apologise for the somewhat late arrival; however, due Christmas and New Year interfering, I hope you'll all understand.

CUSWFN edition XIX
CUSWFN EXIX

[edit] Friends, fanonites, countrymen, lend me your ears…er, eyes…whatever…just run the tape

Welcome to another issue of CUSWFN CASWFN, delivered fresh to your user talk page/subpage for April, 2009! Inside this issue, we have a interview with Solus, as well as a picture of the day, fanon updates, Star Wars merchandise page, Star Wars Fanon news, FA/GA updates, and user comments. In other words, everything that this publication should normally have, but usually doesn't, or doesn't have to the satisfaction of the majority (or at least a vocal minority) of the readers. However, first we have a special address from the editor for the main newsletter page:

By now, you've probably realized that this issue is not part of the CUSWFN, nor is it written by the usual culprits. No, instead we got tired of waiting around for the *actual* CUSWFN and decided to make our own, special one-issue-only release. We're not sure what happened to the actual heads. Word has it one of them is busy with the Communist party and the other is playing with children's toys. Please direct all complaints to them and not us. Especially since we're not revealing our names. In fact, we just conned Ataru into uploading this for us because he's a convenient fall guy.

As such, this issue is labeled the CASWFN, the Completely Alternative Star Wars Fanon Newsletter, due to the fact that it is not part of the standard newsletter. And, since it's not part of that mess, we felt that we could take a few more creative liberties with the content. As such, there is no compunction for us to be as serious in this issue, so you might find the content a bit more satirical. The date of this release also has something to do with that. Our goal is both provide a level of humor and content missing from CUSWFN issues, and frankly, to have fun with this publication. We hope you'll enjoy this special release of CASWFN, and remember, if you've been wishing you got more issues of the usual newsletter, talk to the normal heads.

CASWFN edition one and only
Editor in chief: <insert name here>
The names of staff and contributors are withheld to protect their identities from the mad rantings and possibly being sent to gulags in Siberia.

[edit] What's new in CUSWFN

_{Written by Drewton}

Welcome to the twenty-first edition of the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter! In this edition, CUSWFN receives another design change. This time, the width has been adjusted. Images are now used in the headers, and are different for each section. In addition to the design change, CUSWFN News had been removed, along with the Modal Nodes Club. However, good news must come with bad: co-editor Drewton has been forced to resign, leaving Unit 8311 as the sole editor. Check up soon to see if a new editor will be chosen. Otherwise, feel free to judge for yourself if this has been for the better or worse.

The winners of the Star Wars Fanon Awards are shown in SWF News, along with various other Wiki events in recent times, including unfortunate resignations, Copyright Crusades, and, of course, the upcoming Great Fanon Purge, which has poorly written articles across the site trembling in their grammatically questionable shoes. In Fanon Updates, new details are revealed for all of the newsletter's sponsored works, as well as Project Cruentus. Finally, the new character Cad Bane is analysed in the Star Wars Media section, and MPK has written an essay regarding a supposed myth from the game The Force Unleashed.

We have also asked some community members to pick a Picture of the Week. You will find the winner to that here. If you don't care about the Academy Awards anymore since The Dark Knight was snubbed, you may be interested in the Fourth Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards, the results of which are also shown here. Hopefully, this will be the best edition of CUSWFN yet!

We would also like to point out that if you get put off by some of the content in this issue, we'd like to direct you to the Chris Rock School of Facetiousness Recognition.

[edit] What's new in CUSWFN

_{Written by Unit 8311}

Hello, and welcome to another edition of CUSWFN, the first to be hosted purely by Unit 8311 alone. Having put an end to the previous elongated procrastination of past editions, this week we bring you large quantities of news from the wiki, an amazing picture in the POTW section, and more. No more do you have to wait literally months for this to appear on your talk page. What you will find inside is up-to-date and (hopefully) of interesting topic. My old co-editor, Drewton, will be sorely missed, but now you can finally decide if his deparature was for better or worse.

News and writing in this essay will include an essay regarding Knights of the Old Republic by MPK, news regarding the upcoming purge of articles, Project Cruentus developments, and other such items. As usual, we have our customary reviews of articles featured on the main page.

Incidentally, if you have any essays, opinional pieces, or images you'd otherwise like us to showcase, feel free to contact myself and put forward your stuff. We want to maximise the quality of this newsletter, and if we can combine good writing from the standard editor and masterwork from yourself, we can truely boast that this will be the start of a great era for the newsletter.

Otherwise, enjoy what's inside, comment on it if you must, and have fun.

Welcome to the twenty-third edition of the Star Wars Fanon wiki’s very own Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter! For this twenty-third edition, we welcome a new co-editor, Brandon Rhea, to the team! He will be working alongside long-time editor Unit 8311 to bring you the best quality news about the wiki and fan fiction, as well as editorials and opinions essays about Star Wars works, that this wiki has to offer. A little bit of trivia information is that Rhea, along with fellow Star Wars Fanon user Victor Dorantes, has served as the co-editor of the newsletter once before, but he and Dorantes resigned before releasing an issue due to other commitments that required their attention. We are happy that he has returned to us once again!

In this edition, you will be able to learn new exclusive information about fan works such as the Squishy Vic Series and Avian Hunt, as well as read news about other works sponsored by this newsletter. We also have an opinion essay written by our own Unit 8311, and the newly-renamed Picture of the Edition segment. We have also brought you up-to-date information about new policy proposals and other happenings around the wiki, such as the ongoing mass deletion process that is geared towards improving the quality of the wiki.

Speaking of quality, many users have remarked that the last few editions of this newsletter have not met the standards of quality that our readers have come to expect from us. It is our sincerest hope that this edition of the newsletter will be the first of many that will rectify that, as we have spent weeks working on articles, editorials, and other tidbits that we hope you will enjoy. Because we are striving to improve our quality, we very much encourage you to leave your comments and feedback in the User Comments section. Anything you have to say will be appreciated.

As always, thank you for reading the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter. We value your commitment to us, and we hope that you will continue to value our commitment to you!