Talk:List of fansites

Moving forward
Now that GWW:SITES has been approved as policy, do we need a formatting guide, or just start implementing? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Since according to the policy we will only have this one site, I'd say start implementing. Much easier to discuss design issues right here on the talk page than move them to some other page.
 * PS: I cant wait to see this page evolving. Maybe the current content might even be moved to Fansite program or something. --Xeeron 09:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I support moving the current content to Fansite program. But would it be more reasonable to have the list under Fansite or Fansites?  As it would be a listing of multiple sites, I think Fansites is a more accurate name.  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:48, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. --Xeeron 16:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, your last comment made me think otherwise: We can keep the current content here (as a description of a fansite) and create the new page at fansiteS. No need for the more clumsy fansite program. --Xeeron 09:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Policy conflict / disconnect
We currently have a disconnect between the policies GWW:SITES and GWW:REDIRECT on how to tag the fansite redirect articles. I'm also getting horrendous lag at the moment, so I'm not going to try cleaning it up myself right now. Hopefully someone else can look at this and either resolve it, or propose a solution or two. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Nevermind - it looks like Xeeron fixed it, so the discrepancy has now been resolved. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Description
Ok, whoever is adding the entries for the german sites, please also add a description. That part is about the biggest value of this page, apart from the description we could as well link to ANet's community pages. --Xeeron 21:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Guild Wars Shop
The primary language is French; even on the English site, all items and entries are in French. Only the instructions and labels have been translated, so I doubt the site would be fully useful for an English-speaking person. For all intents and purposes, I believe it's a French website. -- Brains12 \ talk 22:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * True, and I just noticed its listed on the Guild Wars fansite listings under French.- TheRave [[Image:User_TheRave_sig.png]] (talk) 22:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Update
I have updated the list with all the fansites listed on gw.com/fansites. I checked them to make sure they all work. -- Wyn 22:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Good work. Wyn, for the wyn!- TheRave [[Image:User_TheRave_sig.png]] (talk) 22:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Why not Guild Wiki on the list?
Why isn't Guild Wiki on the list? I remember if there was a site on the internet for information on Guild Wars that was where almost everyone who plays GW went. Why is it not on there? Their content rivals the content here especially for older information. 122.105.157.213 12:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is on the list. --[[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png | Wyn's Talk page]] Wyn/talk 12:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This list is outdated, which I did not realize till today. Vili [[Image:User Vili sig.jpg|User talk:Vili]] 12:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Outdated? Well, that's Regina's baileywick, so it doesn't surprise me, but Guild Wiki is represented on our fansite list. --[[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png | Wyn's Talk page]] Wyn/talk 12:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I apprecite the gesture (?), but wouldn't that be breaking the GWW:SITES policy? Vili [[Image:User Vili sig.jpg|User talk:Vili]] 12:22, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This list is for any and all Guild Wars related fansites. If they are not listed on the official GW.com page, their status is simply left blank. --[[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png | Wyn's Talk page]] Wyn/talk 12:25, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

TGH
Is it just me or is the description for The Guild Hall rather ...unflattering? -- snog  rat  02:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Stub
Why is it marked as a stub? I dont want to remove it because there may be fansites missing from the list or w/e C4K3 Talk 21:36, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I left it as a stub when I redid it because there may be other fansites that I don't know about, and it invites others to add them if they do. -- Wyn [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon2.png|19px ]] talk  02:03, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

GW2 Fansites
GW2Guru's up, do we list the GW2 Fansites here or on GW2W? -- Alex Eternal 14:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes on GW2W. -- Wyn [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon2.png|19px ]] talk  04:54, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Photics
They've made a new site for GW - http://guildwars.us/ and the old link doesn't work. So Photics GW fansite still exists but it's not the old one that got the honored status. RazoR 39999 11:54, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Also Coldfront doesn't have a GW section anymore. But they still have a forum section for GW. RazoR 39999 12:05, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

PvX@Wikia
Do we wish to continue listing this? Are the builds there still usable? I thought when it was forked over to Curse it was left pretty much to the trolls and assorted monkeys.... -- Wyn  talk  18:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * There are still some viable builds listed, but anything up to a specific point is unreliable, and many of the builds are troll related. I'm +1 for dropping the listing. User Ryuu Classic R.jpg Ryuu   -  Matters. ≡ 21:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, guildwars.com still lists Wikia as an official site; until they change that, as documentarians rather than arbiters, we can't unilaterally decide to remove it. As a compromise, I've added a note that it is no longer reliably maintained. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Social networks
What about an idea to add here (or in the separate article) some existing social networks related to GW, like in Twitter or Facebook? Of course, with the official Guild Wars and ArenaNet pages there, which are important sources of the offician info (currently they are mentioned only in ArenaNet article as external links with no description, authors etc). I know some Twitter microblogs which are in fact community-driven and give very interesting things/news/links, I think that many people know them too. --Slavic 19:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I think it's a great idea to list them. The question is how and where. On the one hand, they aren't technically fansites. On the other hand, I see no reason to maintain separate articles. So, what if we renamed this article to List of fan resources and included these sections:
 * List of fansites (same as current article)
 * List of official resources (all ANet sanction sites, guildwars.com, official twitter & facebook links, NCSoft store, ...)
 * List of social networks (similar to current article, listing community microblogs, etc).


 * — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:21, 23 January 2011 (UTC)