Wikipedia: List of changes in Star Wars re-releases - errors?

Darth Editous said:

List of changes in Star Wars re-releases

I've been looking at the page above, and, particularly in the Special Edition sections, there seem to be some errors, so I thought I'd post them here to see if anyone can put either me, or the article, right:

New aliens are seen in the Cantina, and the Cantina music is played at a higher pitch and tempo.

Has someone just compared a PAL edition and an NTSC edition?

 

Exactly my thoughts as well, I've only listened to the '04 re-mix once, so I'm not sure about this one, but everything is possible in that horrible re-mix of course.

Darth Editous said:

When Lando contacts Lobot, it is done silently rather than Lando sending a codeword.

What codeword?

And, possibly missing from the ROTJ section, doesn't the skiff that Han gets thrown from now rotate as well as tip, in the SE?

No idea what they're talking about. If they mean the audio signal from his "watch", it was still there in '04 IIRC.

Don't know about the skiff, I have to check.

Darth Editous said:

In the 2004 DVD section:

More debris has been digitally added to the scene at the destroyed Jawa sandcrawler.

I looked for this months ago and could see no difference - am I missing something?

 There's no alteration to that scene at all. Not what I can see.

Darth Editous said:

The dialogue spoken by Jabba the Hutt in the scene where he is discussing the price for Chewbacca that had the subtitles added in the 1997 Special Edition has the subtitles removed, making C-3PO's verbal translations in the scene relevant again.

Were these ever really added to the SE? It's not mentioned in the SE section.

DE

Interesting, in the '97 SE home video releases, that scene is subtitled in the same way as the original film, so I guess this is simply wrong, if it wasn't different on the actual '97 theatrical prints, which I really doubt.

Ooooh, the Wikipedia page that led me here to the OT. :)

The bit's you point out have been added since the last time I visited that page. Most of these alterations weren't there back in November so someone has added them at sometime over the last couple of months.

Also, the discussion page has been deleted sometime over the last year. At one point there was some debate over mentioning Adywan's ANH:R in the article.

These errors are one of the reasons why you should never trust the Wiki at face value.

I've never added anything to Wikipedia, at least nothing that stuck around for long. Depressing, as my Complete Comparison would probably be a great asset for them.

I noticed the other day that most of the Wikipedia entire article has been "blanked" because it was not reliably sourced. I don't know if anyone here would be interested in adding back the changes with citations from reliable sources?

After reading the the discussion page for the article I say it's not worth it. AndyTheGrump (a nickname he chose, not me) seems pretty determined to remove the article - reliably sourced or not - and says it has no place on Wikipedia.

I constantly try and edit the Wikipedia page of the original film to read "Star Wars" and not the horrible revisionist title it has now...they always go back to "Episode IV...". Ugh.