Category talk:Guilds

Request for category Dutch Guilds. The Dutch community is quite big. NexceveN 15:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * You are free to create the category if a guild article needs it. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 11:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Added DBZVelena  |  (Talk page)  [[image:User_DBZVelena_sig.jpg]] 11:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I added categorisation to it. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 11:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Ya, I was just about to but you beat me to it :P DBZVelena  |  (Talk page)  [[image:User_DBZVelena_sig.jpg]] 11:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay thank you, sorry I'm still learning Wiki and don't want to mess things up. That's why I ask before changing. Happy with the changes now NexceveN 18:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

GotW
Doesn't Guild of the Week needs to be on here as well? I saw quite a lot of guilds on wiki here who already were guild of the week, but I cannot seem to find a page for that. Just an idea.. -- (Tribina / talk) 23:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Guilds by language spoken
Ok, i want this discussed first, because if i go again by the "be blunt" part of the recomendations, someone will come and tag it for deletion by being blunt also. I would guess that guilds and players find easier to decide who to recruit and what guild/alliance to join based on languages spoken instead of nationality (since "international" doesn't cover really all the posibilities). Given that we are currently experiencing an increase of asian guilds creating pages, and that having guilds link to language pages is not that rare of a thing, i believe we should consider creating a new category (allowing multiple entries for it), that allowed guilds to classify themselves by language spoken. It wouldn't hurt more than having a "list of warrior skills that can be used while dancing in a party at level 3 drunk in the middle of wintersday", and i actually find it could even help a little to sort things out.--Fighterdoken 20:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe Category:Guilds by nationality can be of some use? &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  03:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Try reading again. ;) "[...] based on languages spoken instead of nationality (since "international" doesn't cover really all the posibilities) [...]" &mdash; Galil [[Image:User Galil sig.png|Talk page]] 03:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The problem with nationality is that they are intended to cover a regional allegiance only, and only one. A guild cannot pick "england" and "france" because that would qualify them as "international" instead, and thus being misleading to chinese-speaking players (exagerated example, i know). The guild infobox already has an entry for the language(s) a guild communicate into, so i think this could be improved by extending the categorization by allowing them to clasify also by the language they speak. Another example of this is "Nationality: English", which only includes "country:England (or GB)" instead of all enlgish-speaking countries (and of course would exclude english-speaking users from other countries). Other case is "nationality: latin-america" which excludes "country:spain", and so and so on.--Fighterdoken 04:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Aye, replace nationality with this if anything. Backsword 08:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * By picking a guild based on nationality, it gives you a general idea what language they speak. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  17:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * So what language do they speak in canadian guilds? Or brazilian guilds? Or one of the other multi-lingual countries? &mdash; Galil [[Image:User Galil sig.png|Talk page]] 17:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Multi-lingual category!, Thats assuming they dont have one that they choose as a main language.... Look at GWWT:GUILDS for my opinion on this (in the 'nationality catergories' bit --[[Image:User The Great Tomato sig.jpg|The Great Tomato]] The Great Tomato 17:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * But again, "multi-lingual" falls on the same problem than "international". A guild that allows english and german speaking users would fall on this category because they allow more than one language, but "french/english" guilds, "english/german" guilds, or "spanish/portuguese" guilds should not be grouped all into a same category, because they just don't cover the same group of people. If doing so, it would be better to just not categorize, or just let them all link to Category:Guild instead, since all of them are guilds. That, or start creating multiple categories for each possible combination (would that make sense if we can already just include more than one category?).--Fighterdoken 18:13, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Based on a discussion with Emily on the usefulness of numbers for ArenaNet's discussions of creating and supporting wiki's in other languages, I have started the Category:Guilds by language and subcategories based on the language specified in their infobox. A Multilingual guilds category was also created for those guilds that specify more than one. Had I thought to look here first, I would have added this to the discussion earlier. -- Wyn 05:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Creating pages
how can i create a guild page. I see nowhere to do it.
 * Search "Guild:YourGuildName" then create the page. Follow GWW:GUILD guidelines.  Calor  [[Image:User_Calor_Sig.png|19px|Talk]] 21:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Guild by territory
I'm considering creating a Guild by territory category. --Pious 21:40, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Created "Guild by territory" and "Guilds in the European territory" category. This allows European guilds to be European and have a principal country as well. --Pious 09:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Why just Europe? Why not North America or Asia? &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  02:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Searching by Guild Tags
I know while I'm playing, I might see a few players all of the same guild gathered together. I'll ask them what their name is, and just get a cold shoulder, or a verbal assault. I already belong to a guild and am very happy with them, but I'm still curious what other guilds I see are up to, and without a name, I can't find them here. So I propose a possible search engine that will parse through guild tags. From there, the user would view the guilds and possibly match capes to view the information of the guild they are searching for. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:65.90.42.40 (talk).
 * This was previously brought up here: Guild Wars Wiki talk:Guild pages/Archive 2, but That page is an archive. The contents have been moved from another page for reference purposes only, and should be preserved in their current form. Discussion or voting on that page is not current. Any additions you make will probably not be read. The current version of the page can be found at Guild Wars Wiki talk:Guild pages. --[[Image:User The Great Tomato sig.jpg|Tomato]] Tomato 09:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The wiki already allows for searching guilds by tag. It's a bit complicated, but can be done. One method for doing this is to hit the Search button at the left, remove the mark from the []Main option and instead mark the []Guild box, and in the search field put "tag = [ ]" (quotation marks included). That way, you will get a list of all the guild articles on the wiki that have the infobox filled with the requested tag.


 * By example, if you put "tag = [fate]" you will see that there are 7 guilds that have "fate" as tag (not case sensitive, though).


 * You could try looking just for "[ ]" instead, but the search would be less precise. On the other hand, it would should entries regardless of if the infobox was filled or not.--Fighterdoken 05:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)