HammerWiki:No guild pages
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[edit] Executive summary
Please do not create articles about specific player-run guilds or regiments in the main HammerWiki namespace.
[edit] No guild pages on HammerWiki
For a number of reasons, a "full" community project like HammerWiki is not a good place to maintain information related to, or even demi-sites of, specific player-run regiments. Among these reasons are:
- Scope and relevance
- HammerWiki covers topics and information relevant to the community at large, that is to say players on any and all servers, sides etc. Articles concerning individual guilds are by and large irrelevant to the community beyond the handful of players associated with the particular guild.
- Subjectivity
- Generally, articles on HammerWiki strive to be neutral, without bias or specific point-of-views, and content should be readily verifiable by a third party and other editors. Articles on individual guilds, however, tend to be the opposite; written largely by individuals directly associated with the guild in question and almost impossible to independently verify.
- Volatility
- Information concerning player-run organizations are volatile in more than one sense. For one thing, guilds come and go with great frequency and it is unlikely that abandoned, split, merged or otherwise non-active guilds are going to "clean up" HammerWiki entries, making for articles that very quickly become stale (largely because of item 1 above). Another sense in which guild-related articles are volatile is the fact that the few really major guilds in any MMORPG -- the only ones that could concievably be interesting to list in HammerWiki -- tend to draw large controversies and inevitably end up as endless sources of strife and edit-wars.
- Uniqueness
- Since guild names are not necessarily unique across servers, HammerWiki would have a hard time distinguishing sixty five different guilds called Elite on sixty five different servers. This could be, partially, solved through disambiguation pages, but it is another thing that is bound to cause additional strife and competition for the "good spots".
- Scale
- Another thing that cannot be overlooked is the fact that the number of guilds in a game such as WAR is bound to be absolutely huge. In the unlikely event that all the player-run guilds decided to create pages on HammerWiki, it would put a significant damper on resources that could be put to better use on articles that do not have the above-mentioned problems.
Realistically, with the above in mind, guild pages simply do not belong on HammerWiki. But in the opinion of many editors, notes and information on guilds are perfectly acceptable additions to individual user pages and you too are welcome to document yours on your user page. However, please see below for some common-sense guidelines.
[edit] User space limitations
The HammerWiki user page space is not a substitute for a "real" guild page. A few paragraphs of information and history related to your guild is perfectly fine, but if what your guild needs is a bona fide website with forums, links, codes of conduct and all the other things usually attributed to such a site, you are likely much better off finding hosting somewhere else, with a free, cheap or even dedicated hosting provider that can better accommodate your individual needs.
