Guild Wars Wiki:Guild pages

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This page is an official policy on the Guild Wars Wiki. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow.

Shortcut: GWW:GUILD

Note: There is currently an active policy draft

The purpose of the Guild Wars Wiki is to help players, and pages on guilds can help players locate a new guild or learn about the history of the game. Therefore, players are allowed to create pages about their guilds in the Guild: namespace. The intent of these pages should be to inform the reader, not boast or put other guilds down.

This article sets out the standards and ground rules that all guild articles need to follow.

Contents 1 Naming and contents 2 Categorically disallowed 3 Strongly discouraged 4 Deletion

[edit] Naming and contents

• All guild pages must reside in the Guild: namespace. This namespace is isolated from the main namespace by:
  • Disallowing any form of redirection to or from pages outside of this namespace
  • Strongly curtailing links from the main article space. Links are only allowed from official mentions of guilds, such as from articles on official tournaments.

Note that these limitations don't affect links pointing out from the Guild: namespace, such as linking to articles in the main namespace or user pages; outbound links are perfectly allowed.

• All guild pages must be named with the full name of the guild as displayed in-game (including uppercase first letter formatting), i.e., use [[Guild:Zealots Of Shiverpeaks]]. In the presence of naming conflicts try the following disambiguation attempts in order. Chances are one of them will work. In case of continuing conflicts, contact an administrator.
  1. Use the guild tag in parentheses: [[Guild:Zealots Of Shiverpeaks (ZoS)]]
  2. Use the territory of the guild: [[Guild:Zealots Of Shiverpeaks (America)]]
  3. Use the guild's preferred style of play: [[Guild:Zealots Of Shiverpeaks (PvP)]]
• All guild pages must contain the template {{guild}} at the top; this template clearly marks the article as a guild article.
• All images used on guild pages must contain the template {{guild image}} in its description; this template clearly marks the image as a guild-related image.
• Image names must be prefixed with the word "Guild" and the full name of the guild. (examples: Image:Guild Example Guild.jpg, Image:Guild Example Guild cape.jpg). As with the above, this is to clearly identify an image as being guild-related only.
• For detailed instructions on how to format your guild page and what information to include, see the style and formatting guideline. This page also provides a handy template for such guild articles.

[edit] Categorically disallowed

• The guild page must not contain any defamation. This includes making statements about other guilds. All information about players and guilds must strictly adhere to the no personal attacks policy.
• While achievements may be listed, guild pages must not claim impossible or verifiably false achievements. Where possible, claims to fame should be documented with hard evidence such as mentions on the official Guild Wars website, championship trophies, etc.
• Guild pages, which include their talk pages, shall not be used as a chat forum, recruitment board or guild roster. Guild pages shall not be used to contact the guild members.
• Guild pages should be relatively stable. Do not list such information as who is online, what the guild's current rating/rank is, etc. (It is OK to list the final ratings from past ladder seasons.)
• No guild page shall redirect to or from a page outside the Guild: namespace. No guild article may transclude a page outside the Guild: or Template: namespaces.

[edit] Strongly discouraged

• Guild pages should not deviate from the style and formatting guideline for guild pages in formatting or content without excellent reasons.
• Guild pages should not use Guild Wars Wiki resources in an unreasonable manner, nor use any complex or esoteric template.
• Guild pages should not use large or large numbers of images. A single image of your guild members striking a pose or a guild cape is allowed. Profiles of every character of every player in the guild is not.
• Guild pages should generally not be created or maintained by non-members. In case of doubt, an administrator may ask the primary editors of a guild page to prove that they are members of the guild. The purpose of this policy is to minimize the chance of aiding rumor or misinformation campaigns.
• In general, guild pages should avoid making comments about other guilds. This includes making statements like: "unlike other guilds, Zealots of Shiverpeaks has only friendly members".

[edit] Deletion

• Guild pages of certifiably important guilds (eg. guilds that have participated in official championships) will never expire. Many of these guilds are currently inactive, so they will be tagged with the {{historical guild}} template. The threshold for admission into this class of guilds is high and contingent on community consensus.
• Guild pages of guilds that are not certifiably important will be tagged as {{inactive guild}} if both of the following two conditions are met:
  • Condition 1: Wiki inactivity - The guild page has not received any edits for 6 months.
  • Condition 2: In-game inactivity - The listed contact (forum, website, guild leader, etc) is inactive or the guild article doesn't list a contact.
• Pages tagged will be deleted after 1 month from the tagging date. Any user of the Guild Wars Wiki may remove this tag if they know that the guild still exists.
• Guild pages that are found to violate these policies may be edited to fit these policies. A guild that harms or frustrates the Guild Wars Wiki may forfeit their privilege of having a guild page. In general, guild pages should not be kept if the guild leader or all editing guild members request deletion (although verification of current membership/position may be required, to prevent abuse). Requests and execution of deletions should be done according to deletion policy. As with all articles on Guild Wars Wiki, any content posted to a guild page can potentially be reused by others, even if deletion is later requested.