GuildWiki talk:Article retention

I believe this policy article somewhat accurately reflects the growing consensus in GuildWiki talk:Criteria for deletion. As I think the issue being discussed is significantly different from the topic in criteria for deletion, the discussion might be better suited to this talk page. &mdash;Tanaric 16:03, 3 September 2006 (CDT)


 * Good idea Tanaric.  &lt;LordBiro&gt;/&lt;Talk&gt; 17:24, 3 September 2006 (CDT)


 * We've needed this article for ages anyway, regardless of the historical argument. &mdash;Tanaric 18:51, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

Unverifiable?
What about screenshots? I've still got screenshots from the Halloween 2005 event. And there's enough witnesses to corroborate the existance of Rift Warden battles. None of the holiday pages are protected, and it appears that this "no new eddits after a week" thing is pulling a policy out of thin air. I'd be okay with "no new information unless you can back it up with a screenshot or N witnesses". -- Gordon Ecker 21:02, 3 September 2006 (CDT)


 * You hit the nail on the head&mdash;this is, in fact, pulling a policy out of thin air. Hence the big box that says "this is a proposed policy." :)


 * My theory is that GuildWiki has reached a certain critical mass. For every time-limited event from now on, it will be completely documented within a week after the event ends. Most are fully documented before the event concludes! I personally don't think it's worth the hassle to deal with ancient information. I don't want to have to decide whether your screen capture of a Fury rune is real or duped&mdash;there's little, if any, benefit to retaining that information anyway, since nobody in-game even remembers the damned things anymore.


 * If you disagree with my stance on retrodocumenting ancient history, please explain why. &mdash;Tanaric 21:33, 3 September 2006 (CDT)


 * Yeah, I didn't notice the proposed tag at the top of the page. As I understand it, the purpose of category:unfavored builds is to serve as a sort of build scrap heap for people to rummage through and salvage some workable ideas out of. One solution might be to split unfavored builds into viable but sub-optimal or excessively narrow builds which are retained and unviable and generic builds which are deleted. As for ancient history, I don't see any problem with letting the historians argue about Runes of Fury, evil Gwen and Rift Wardens as long as it doesn't spill over onto the rest of the wiki. Wrathful Storm is missing a screenshot, so we haven't reached critical mass yet. -- Gordon Ecker 02:51, 4 September 2006 (CDT)