May the 4th Be With You Fanworks Exchange

Requests spreadsheet combined with the different franchise info from the nom spreadsheet, for those who wish to treat by movie/show/book/comic/whatever:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19j1ErtO7aMkqEDBU56ukp2ilHLoPL0m_pVTwwWs6FaE/edit?usp=sharing

(AO3 request summary: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/maythe4th2017/requests)

1) I found and fixed at least one mistake: there's probably more. Drop a comment below if you find any.

2) The EU/NewDisney/games columns are checked off for characters who *only* appear in the EU/NewDisney/games. This is because pretty much all of the other characters appear in the EU, and checking them off would make the EU columns useless. This unfortunately means that some characters known more for being in the EU aren't checked off there: i.e. Thrawn is also in Rebels, so he's not checked off in the EU columns. It's a less than optimal solution. I'm open to suggestions on how to arrange this information here and on the noms spreadsheet more effectively next year.

3) Wookieepedia was the authority for whether or not a character shows up in something. I did not consider just a mention or showing up only in a photo or diary entry to be "appearing in."

4) There's no way we can set it up that will make everyone happy. If you find this doesn't work for you, feel free to copy the sheet and redo it in a way that does. If you'd like to share your version, drop it in a comment below.

ETA: My post title is vindicated: I managed to drop 30ish requests from the spreadsheet the first time. They're restored now. There's probably still errors in attribution, though; let me know if you see any.

Less than a day left for nominations. Your mods have been working on a spreadsheet of nominations to make it a bit easier to see who's wanting what.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Leqv0zayzExJS0i8a06Ugp9b3Mt2DWupALH0y4h9a6c/edit?usp=sharing

Each column is a different property/property group, like "Original Trilogy" or "Video and tabletop games". If a character appears in a property, it should have a Y in that column (shaded green for max visibility). You can sort the sheet by that Y to narrow your search to within each property.

It's probably got mistakes. A lot of them. And there's problems with deciding whether or not to put characters from the movies/animated series into the EU/Legends and other columns, because most of the characters from the movies/series show up in one form or another in the EU/Legends, which then makes attempting to sort by that column pointless. So right now the columns that refer to the non-movies/animations are reserved for characters that appear only in those properties, even though that complicates things for characters originating in the EU/Legends who have been pulled into Clone Wars/Rebels.

It now occurs to this mod that maybe a column for "Originated in the EU/Legends, now pulled into Disney canon" might have been useful, but it's not going to get put in this year.

Point out any egregious errors, please: none of the mods are familiar with all of the properties in the Star Wars megaverse and there's only so long you can look through the Appeared In section of Wookieepedia for 400+ characters without having your vision start fading and your brain short out.

Two requested parings involving 'Bane" disambiguated to "Darth Bane" as the partners seemed to be central to the Darth Bane storyline. If this isn't the Bane you requested, let us know and we'll fix it.