Red Dead Wiki talk:Weapon Pages

Policy Creation
When did we agree on this? I know this is a convention, but I disagree with obliterating all relevant real-world reference. This game takes on a very distinct historical time period, and in doing so may exhibit some significant anachronisms, but also significant realities.

I think that maintaining a strict boundary on what and how we use historical and factual reference would be incredibly helpful. Sure, readers are indeed coming here for game information, but the beautiful part about a wiki is that it can provide additional information that is not nessecarily what you set out to find. In fact, I think this is one ofthe features that makes this wiki more appealing to users than any of the dozens of FAQs and Walkthroughs that will flood the net once this game is released. It's game-relevant but also provides a very summarized.

It is not as if these pages are overly cluttered or in dire need to editing. I'm struggling to see where the harm would occur in contrast to running a type ship in terms of the amount and content of the historical references. If it is an issue of maintaining a standard, I would be more than happy to volunteer to establish and enforce limitations.

I think we're needlessly restricting our scope and relegating this wiki to being on the same playing field as an FAQ, when we could easily exploit increased versatility and access to information. -- Tiktaalik 15:43, May 9, 2010 (UTC)