Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7263041-20130520220135/@comment-7246169-20130713092611

@ Everen - I don't edit anyone's page unless I have been given permission to do so. I generally consider that to be vandalizing other people's work, however much I may wish to fix it.

@ Maxen - Perhaps the tone of my original post was a tad harsh, but I stand by the opinion that a roleplayer should not be rewriting the history of a lore character's house/Kingdom and if they do, it ought to carry a disclaimer at the top of the page, such as the one Everen uses on his "Laws of Arathor" so as not to confuse the new folks who don't know any better. "I purposefully tried not to include any far-reaching consequences when I wrote what I did for the House of Wrynn, and only wished to expand upon the non-existant history of nothingness that Blizzard left us for people to consider to use if they wanted to."

Stormwind never fought a war against the empire of Arathor. Arathor was not Rome. It wasn't Skyrim either, but people seem to want it to be. The point is some kid who doesn't know any better is going to read that and believe it to be canon, which will get him into trouble later on with guilds that do abide by the lore.

I'm all for getting creative with the things Blizzard fails to touch on, but there's a difference between writing the history of your character's own Noble house and doing it with characters and Kingdoms that are canon.

Anyway... I won't go on for hours about this as I am prone to doing, so I'll leave it at this. A disclaimer at the top of pages like this would be nice for the new folks who may not know any better and use it as a source of canon lore.

We all appreciate what it is you're trying to do with this wiki and as someone who has built and maintains three wikis, I know how much work goes into it.