Classic WoW Wiki talk:Guidelines

Talk Pages
Wikipedia has a guideline regarding Talk Pages stating that their purpose is to discuss the article itself and ways it can be improved, rather than to provide commentary about the subject itself. While I'm sure we all enjoy such discussions, they do seem to be getting out of control on a few pages, making it difficult to sort out the ongoing discussion directly relevant to the article.

I don't think a policy is needed on this matter, but perhaps on the few problem pages the lengthy treatises which don't discuss the actual articles could be moved to, for example, Talk:Blood elf/Discussion, and a banner template disclaimer added describing the purpose of the talk page. For example:

Any thoughts?--Aeleas 14:34, 21 August 2006 (EDT)


 * I agree that we shouldn't club people over the head for a few random non-editorial comments, but when it gets in the way of editing, that sounds like a very good solution. I'll definitely stand behind a guideline like that. --Mikk 17:23, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

There is naturally a lot of drift and leeway. I've split both Talk:Draenei and Talk:Blood elf into the regular talk page and a separate analysis pages, and I think it helps both the editorial and general discussions to have an individual page.--Aeleas 17:29, 21 August 2006 (EDT)