Category talk:Night of the Dead

I hate to play Devil's Advocate, and I know that Psi has effectively given the go-ahead for this, but the fact that there's now six pages relating to a fanon map makes me very uneasy, in that it feels like special treatment. I'll boil it down to a few points:


 * It's been a past rule that there is not to be articles that spin-off from fan-created articles. This was put into place with Stellar Forces for instance, where it was declared that while the game itself is noteworthy, we weren't to create articles for it. Stellar Forces is perhaps the most noteworthy piece of fanon there is in regards to articles we have, by virtue of being an actual commercial product. So under what precedent is there for extension of a fan created map?


 * Volume of content is not a sufficient reason. Heck, you could get a long-enough fanfic and divided it into chapter articles based on this notion.


 * Notability isn't a sufficient reason for branching articles. Firstly, there's Stellar Forces. Secondly, there's the fact that things with arguably greater notability such as the songs of Nerd Alert/Husky (what's notable is subjective, but that hits range from 600,000 to 6 million for their StarCraft songs speaks for itself) were seemingly deemed not notable by way of early edits. The only real virtue for NotD's inclusion is its mention by an official source.


 * There doesn't seem to be sourcing of information. I understand that some of it comes from the game, but take its lore for instance? Is that sourced? And then there's the fact that it obviously isn't relying on canon content at all. It strikes me very much as original research, which is something that wikipedia stamps down hard on and for all intents and purposes, isn't something wikia is meant for either bar sites that are specially catered for it. And since it already has a site, wouldn't it be better to post the info there rather than directing users to an external site? Yes, I know how frustrating editing in HTML or CSS can be, but if it's just listing stats and images, it isn't that sophisticated in terms of coding.


 * On a more subjective note, the articles feel like they're shooting themselves in the foot, being lists. It strikes me that if it does have to be hosted on a wiki, Liquidpedia or the StarCraft Fan Fiction Wiki would be better choices-the former is solely based on maps and strategy, the latter where users can create as many articles as they like.

In essence, I know the appeal of wikia's editing-I've used my wikia homepage as a secondary homepage for my ff.net account for instance. Here however, with multiple articles, it seems to have taken a course of its own, defying past actions and making it very much like we have double standards.--Hawki 06:24, February 18, 2011 (UTC)