User:Felix Omni/Analogy

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=The Ultimate Analogy= GuildWiki is to Guild Wars Wiki as Great Britain is to the United States of America.

"WHAAAAAT?!"
No, it's true! Allow me to explain.


 * ~300 years ago, Great Britain was the strongest country in the world. ~3 years ago, GuildWiki was the strongest Guild Wars website in the world.


 * Great Britain had it all! Territory, wealth, trade routes, population. GuildWiki also had it all! Our own not-for-profit domain, specialty fansite status, talks to become the in-game wiki, population.


 * Then a bunch of people were like "Hey, no offense, but we can do this better elsewhere," and they jumped over to North America. Similarly, a bunch of people from GuildWiki went to the official wiki because it could be used in-game and had access to copyrighted materials.


 * The U.S.A. prospered and flourished because of its excellent geographical resources, its safe and isolated location, and its lack of concern for what happens elsewhere in the world. This led many Americans to believe they were a superior race, favored by God. Guild Wars Wiki prospered and flourished because of its location on the guildwars.com domain its official status which granted it security and allowed it to run with no concern for money or server space. This led many GWWians to believe they were a superior wiki, favored by God.


 * Meanwhile, Great Britain declined. It lost its colonies and fought dozens of wars, losing people, money, and status each time. In the same fashion, GuildWiki declined. We lost our domain, our builds section, our fansite status, and our contributors. We fought against Gravewit, Wikia, and more Wikia.


 * So now the United States is the most powerful nation in the world. Guild Wars Wiki is the premiere Guild Wars "fansite."


 * Great Britain is a little island with a declining population. GuildWiki is a little Wikia oddity with a declining population.

Additional Parallels

 * In 2001, the leader of Great Britain (Tony Blair) invited the unpopular and incapable leader of the US (George W. Bush) to fuck with his people by getting them killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2008, the leader of GuildWiki (Entropy) invited the leader of Guild Wars Wiki (Auron) to fuck with us in all sorts of ways.


 * PvX Wiki can be likened to Canada. ArenaNet can be likened to France. Guru can be China or something, who cares.