Talk:FA

Ask yourself: If you would ask 10 GuildWars players "What does FA mean?", how many would answer "Final Assault"? My personal estimate is: One, maybe two. The others would shrug or make some wild guesses. My point: This isn't a common acronym at all, and the article should be scrapped. --Tetris L 02:18, 26 October 2005 (EST)


 * Even worse is that it opens up this ridiculous can of worms as each user who abbreviates a quest name in whatever way he likes will add it here. LDD (Last Day Dawns) or TLDD (THE Last Day Dawns) or TS (titan source) vs TS (teamspeak). Big bowl of spaghetti. --Karlos 03:47, 26 October 2005 (EST)


 * Agree with both of you. Happy for this page to be blowed up. --209.113.159.61 04:16, 26 October 2005 (EST)

its common, keep it.--Ollj 04:41, 7 November 2005 (EST)
 * I completely disagree here. FA is VERY common in chatter in Deldrimor War Camp, and I've been flabbergasted as to what it means until I did some research on this website.  I'm going to recreate the article - maybe this wasn't common when the article was deleted, but it's very frequently used now. - Jersyko the Insane 03:06, 7 November 2005 (EST)

Quest Abbreviations
Ok, we need to take a decision on quest abbreviations now before this goes in either direction. Should we or should we not allow player "Acronyms" for quests into the slang category?

My opinion: No. Very bad idea.

Rationale:
 * Inconsistent: Acronyms defined by users are by definition inconsistent. I have seen DNKP being called DNK only. Which do we put? Both? What about DD (Defend Denravi and Defend Droknar's)?
 * Confusing: Do we have TS as Titan Source or TeamSpeak or a disambiguation page?
 * Most importantly, Transient: They are only popular for a short time, then at the next update or chapter two, they will change.
 * Is it that important? I find no shame in asking in public chat "What's FA?" Knowing fully well I'll get the usual sarcastic "Freakin Animal" and "For America" and also one or two people who will actually respond with what FA is. It's not like we're going to right articles refering to "DNKP" instead of "Defend North Kryta Province" (if we do that's bad). If you look at the Slang & Terminology category, they are all terms we use in the wiki itself.

I know all of this is subjective and based mostly on a mentality that's opposed to "shortcuts." Whatever your opinion is, please post it here so we can decide on this and move forward. --Karlos 19:36, 7 November 2005 (EST)
 * I'll chime in and say that we should not have these in here. Mostly just for the reason that I don't see a need for them.  If you can't figure out what FA or DNKP or whatever is on your own, then I probably don't want you in my group as either you haven't reached that point in the game or you're just slow.  --Rainith 19:58, 7 November 2005 (EST)