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When to link to GW2W

It's been common practice to link to articles on GW2W using {{{gw2w}}, even if the two articles have nothing in common except the name. I propose that we end this practice and only link when there's some reason for visiting the other article, besides the coincidence of names.

Generally speaking, Lore and Location articles are usually good ones to link, e.g. to compare Lion's Arch with Lion's Arch or Glint to Glint. In contrast, skills in GW2 usually are completely different from those in GW1 (and often the names are simply typical RPG/MMO-style names, e.g. it's misleading to link Wild Strike to Wild Strike). (And yes, I think we should do the same thing at GW2W.) – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 07:33, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't know of any case where "the two articles have nothing in common except the name" and they're linked, please point to one?

Regarding the question, I would go the same route GW2W uses for linking to GWW - same topic, regardless of name change, except in the case of pure mechanical things such as skills which, if a need to link is required (some people would say yes due to the reference and legacy of GW1 to GW2, however I do not think that GWW needs to link to GW2W), can go to trivia instead of a box that mostly gets in the way of articles formatted like skills are. Konig/talk 17:12, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I linked above: Wild Strike has nothing in common with Wild Strike except the name, which is probably used by dozens of RPGs/MMOs. It's as meaningless as saying Mhenlo shares a name with Mhenlo Park, CA. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 17:29, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Well in that particular situation, Silver Edge is wrong - it's shared topic, not shared name (e.g., Ventari's sanctuary and gw2:The Grove). See original comment. Konig/talk 02:54, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

I guess I phrased my suggestion poorly. I am saying that, on both wikis, we should only link articles when there is a meaningful connection. Normally, the coincidence of having the same name doesn't meet even our minimal requirements for trivia, so it is both unnecessary and misleading (in my opinion) to link the two Wild Strikes (or any other skills for that matter). This would be a change to current practice for both GWW and GW2W.

I agree that we should link articles with dissimilar names, but similar topics (V's sanctuary and the Grove, in Konig's example). – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 03:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Finished with Event NPC's

Atlast!, done ^_^, Wayfarer's Reverie NPC's should be fully completed. -- Thon Ghul|Talk 18:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

What to do with skills that were removed from the game?

As in September 13, 2012's Lightning Orb (PvP)? Yoshida Keiji (talk) 15:56, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I'd say slap the removed/historical content tag on them and note in the trivia with the skill revision history that there used to be a PvP version. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first PvP split skill removed from the game so there's probably a precedent to follow though. Toraen 18:08, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

{{historical content}}, and update {{historical content nav}}. If anything else needs to be done, just look at the history of the already removed PvP skills. Konig/talk 18:18, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies, skill articles are not my specialized field and while helping the Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Skill history, I found no guidance. I thought there were precedents but couldn't recall one to track down. Does the wiki keep a record of all removed skills? Will check these two templates now to see what is tagged by it. Yoshida Keiji (talk) 01:12, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

List of removed skills. Konig/talk 04:11, 15 September 2012 (UTC)