Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5722194-20130824064917

Heya folks. I've been poking around in-game, on the wiki and on the server forums and have seen some flak thrown towards this wiki due to fanon discrepancies and "unwanted" edits.

Fanon Tags

I think Berenal made the right call when he deleted the fanon template and posted the general disclaimer about fanon tags on the main page. This entire wiki is fanon with tidbits of canon lore thrown in. As I warned when disclaimers were first discussed, the whole fanon deal turned into a witch hunt based on favoritism and personal vendettas instead of the interests of maintaining the server story.

Don't reference other people's characters/organizations without their OOC permission!

A concern that I think is relevant is that people should not post about other people's characters in their own articles without their general OOC understanding and/or permission. I don't really want to have to deal with "______ SAID MY CHARACTER WAS _____ ON THEIR PAGE AND I OBJECT", etc. between factions of the community that dislike or don't recognize each other on the wiki. If you reference someone else's character negatively on your page without permission or an OOC understanding, please remove it.

Claiming Pages and Disambiguations

Something that really grinds my gears is when people claim that kingdom or nation spanning organization articles are "theirs" and that they are untouchable by others. Things like (Insert Kingdom) House of Nobles, (Insert Kingdom) Army, (Insert In-Game Land), etc, are broad organizations and articles that other players have full right to ascribe their characters to in any way they wish.

If you disagree with what someone has written on an article that is fanon, and your guild/organization/club follows a different story, please write a section for your version on the same page in a different section and mark it as such instead of tearing up other peoples' work.

For example:

Player 1 makes an article about an organization and lists the ranks and their history. Player 2's guild also ascribes itself to that or a similar organization, but has a different implementation of it in their story. Instead of editing/deleting the other person's work, Player 2 would write a separate section on the page and include that "(Player 2's guild/organization/multiple guilds) follow the following implementation of this organization in their role-play."

I won't have one or two people dictating articles and preventing people from adding their own fanon. If administrators are found to continue to do this, they will be removed from the administrator roster.

Thank you for your time. 