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Link to site: www.starfleetjedi.net
On-site description: "Starfleet Jedi - your source for fresh and original analysis of Star Trek and Star Wars, comprehensive examination of the infamous VS debate about the two franchises, and insightful technological analyses. We promise to bring you everything we can find, leaving nothing out."
Reliability: 4/10

Not too comprehensive
The main body of the site is not very informative. The companion Open Databank is more comprehensive (click source to view a page).
     For instance, the shielding analysis of TPM consists of... four sentences.

Poor interpretation of events
In one case, the site concludes, based on the statement that the Naboo fighters' weaponry "may not be powerful enough" to get through the Droid Control Ship's shields, that fighter weaponry in Star Wars is a marginal threat to capital ship shields. Never mind the facts that:

• The battleship was a converted freighter.
• The weapons did basically nothing to the ship, except for Anakin's shot to the reactor.
• We are talking about a fleet of kiloton-level-equipped fighters, which were unable to harm the shields of a converted freighter.
• Presumably, if required, a pilot could have simply rammed the shields. However, they don't do so, even though such an impact would be GJ-level.

Another example: The ROTJ shielding analysis. After describing the incident in which the Falcon lands on a shielded ISD, he says:
    "One possible solution is that the shields have gaps large enough to admit a grappling hook, but not large enough to allow a small freighter to pass. Another is that the the shields would have been ineffectual, but that the Imperials' instinct was to raise them anyway when faced with an immediate threat."
     What about this: They are confident in the bridge armor, and so they left those shields off so they could send holocommunications to the other ISDs about the new threat?

Yet another, from the Open Database turbolaser page:
     "Some [[Saxtonite]] debaters argue 8 [[gigaton]]s as a lower limit for HTL's, based on [[Base Delta Zero]] calculations assuming melting one meter of the crust in one hour. [[Brian Young]]'s own calculations for his [[Turbolaser Commentaries]] website place those figures much lower, in the single to double-digit kiloton range for the asteroid destruction scene in ''[[Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back]]'', and low megatons for the scene of the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' being struck and knocked askew by a single turbolaser bolt under the assumption it is a laser beam, not a particle weapon."
     First, to quibble, Wong's estimate of the energy of the bolt that rocked the Falcon didn't assume it was a laser, just made of massless particles (as lasers are) based on the fact that in the Original Trilogy blaster bolts did not appear to be affected by gravity. The same mistake is made in the "Weapons in TESB" page.
     Secondly, the kiloton figures by Young are minimum, and based on light-to-medium guns. A Delta Base Zero operation would of course be performed with bigger guns.