Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/Player and fan content

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This guideline needs a definition of inappropriate miscellaneous fan content which excludes things which clearly do belong within main namespace articles, such as walkthroughs. Fan art has the same problem. Perhaps there should be something along the lines of "The primary purpose of the main namespace is to accurately document Guild Wars, and the primary purpose of each main namespace article is to accurately document its' subject, off-topic text, links, images and other media are prohibited from main namespace articles.". -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 04:22, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I've added it. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 04:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

You've asked for comments, but I'm a little confused by what you want this to achieve. It doesn't really seem to say much. Misery 11:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

It's primarily intended to fill in the cracks left by other content policies such as Guild Wars Wiki:Content retention, Guild Wars Wiki:Builds and Guild Wars Wiki:Deletion policy. The term "player and fan content" is intended to cover everything between official content and content which would be covered by A3's "incontrovertibly unrelated to both Guild Wars and the Guild Wars Wiki" requirement. One reason I decided to start writing up this guideline is because I'd like to have a guideline to cite when explaining why I've moved a page to someone's userspace. Another option would be to have a namespace guideline explaining the scopes of each namespace. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 08:32, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, at the moment the only crack I see filled is fan fiction, perhaps player character pages. Am I mistaken? Misery 11:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

This guideline is mainly intended to settle arguments and minimize drama if someone is being really stubborn. Basically our version of Wikipedia's "what Wikipedia is not" policy. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 04:39, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

It could also include some clear rules on speculation within articles. For example, if there is an apparent contradiction in lore (such as when the Charr got magic, the history of the Margonites in the Crystal Desert, the supposed extinction of the Elonians and the origin of Tyria), I think that we should mention the apparent contradicting and list some concise, plausible explanations of how the statements could be reconciled, however I don't think we should go beyond that. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 05:11, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell everything is alrready covered, bar community events, which is just the point Brains took up. Backsword 15:01, 14 July 2009 (UTC)