GuildWiki talk:Suggestions/Named Skills History

A wastrel, to my knowledge is someone who does nothing, so the wastrel skills punish you for not using skills. Lord of all tyria 16:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Correct. There used to be trivia notes of that on WWorry's page, iirc. --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  17:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

My 2 Cents
Not sure what you mean by "named", but I hope this helps.--El_Nazgir 18:18, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Jaizhenju Strike most likely comes from Jaizhanju (but one of them has a spelling mistake, and I seem to recall something similar happening to something else, but I can't remember where.
 * A Dolyak is a type of creature, and if Angorodon's Gaze is put in so should this (Angorodons are a type of dinosaur here).
 * Similarly, Ntouka are beasts too.

Also, back on Wastrel; we shouldn't make up some backstory or something, if that's what you're pointing at. --- -- (contribs)  &emsp;(talk)  18:41, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Alkar
 * "a religious hermit living alone, often in the desert. " <-- Eremite (or)
 * "Any of various slender, narrow-winged hawks of the genus Circus, such as the marsh hawk, that prey on small animals." <-- Harrier (or)

Move
The page is nice, maybe we can put it in mainspace? It could be categorized as Lore and Lists? -- ◄mendel► 20:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

One fundamental flaw
GuildWiki is not a place for fanfiction. It goes counter to our mission of documenting the game if we are going to make up fictitious lore just for the purpose of making trivia interesting. Trivia* is never about "made-up backstory"; it's all verifiable in-game, from a dictionary, or from the ANet staff.

It seems pretty obvious to me that "Balthazar's Aura is named after Balthazar". I don't think something like that should be noted. The line gets a bit fuzzier for skills like Angorodon's Gaze, named after the Angorodon, or Jaizhenju Strike, named after Jaizhanju. Depending on what campaigns you have, you may not be familiar with those creatures/persons in-game. And when it comes to skills that use uncommon words like Wastrel's Worry (see a dictionary for definition), that is entirely subjective. Some people may be familiar with the word, others not.

But regardless of that, one must also consider that we are not Wikipedia, nor a dictionary, nor Google. We are a Guild Wars fansite, and our content is about Guild Wars and Guild Wars-related things. Is it really our place to define words for people, such as "wastrel", or "harrier" (which, by the way, refers to a specific kind of bird)? I don't think so, and the community has in the past shown repeatedly that they don't support having that kind of trivia on the page. I think that consensus still stands.

* Footnote: There probably is still some bad trivia out there, somewhere, but most of it has been purged by now; it's the exception, not the rule.

(T/C) 21:27, 30 March 2009 (UTC)