SW1ki talk:Original Information

I originally put forth this idea at Help_talk:Citing_Sources.

How much freedom should people have to just make stuff up? The wiki is a somewhat authoritative source of information for the MUSH now, and I'm a little wary of allowing people unguided freedom to create whatever they want as far as background information goes.

There's the case of the Nideran Accords article (which has been deleted), where somebody decided to invent a treaty between Black Sun, the CSA and Tatooine that (as far as I know) never existed except on the wiki and in the mind of the author.

There's nothing in our current policies about requiring people to cite RPA approval or actual RP. To some degree that's fine, but we need to figure out when it's okay and when it isn't. -- Xerxes 19:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, I know there are a lot of things on the wiki here that I use, perhaps having one or more of the RPA staff be assigned sections to monitor? I know myself that I have fallen prone to a few things that are not allowed on here (which have been fixed).  Just a thought...
 * Also, was wondering if it would be a good idea to create an IGN page, have it linked to the main page by characters, factions, etc. Rather a way to document IGN posts?  On either account, I'm willing to help.  -- Nasa Eagle / Krieg 24 JULY 2006 09:56 (CST)