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Back when people were getting fed up with the FR WikiProject, someone put an 'abandon ship' style notice on the front page of the project page telling people to come here instead of joining that project. I will admit now that it we me that referred to that message as spam. That was perhaps an unfortunate word, but I didn't want to see that project derailed. I still don't. And I don't want to see this project derailed either.
What I have proposed (over on Wikipedia) is that, the FR work team is formerly set up to work in cooperation with this team.
I won't repeat all of my comments here. You can surf over to my: A call for formal cooperation between this 'work team' and Forgotten Realms Wiki discussion topic, to see what I said.
But, I think that there are a number of issues that are of mutual interest to both this wiki and the FR-loving editors on Wikipedia.
I would especially like to see the editors here have a major input to the policy of the FR work team back over at Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has rules that restrict the quantity of fictional content that is written about and a lot of D&D articles (including the FR ones) have been tagged for deletion. I think that seeing D&D articles aparantly attacked has caused a lot of Wikipedians loose some of their enjoyment in writing for Wikipedia. And I think that some of the people writing here may be people who previously were more active on Wikipedia. The FR part of the D&D community is not going to be able to totally rewrite Wikipedia policy, but I do think that the FR Work Team page could be used to educate people about when to post there and when to post here. (Better still, the page could link to tutorials and resources that help people make content that is not taken down.) And I think that some sort of joint cooperation could ensure that FR fans, who decide they want to help create encyclopedic FR content, know what all of their options are.
I hope to see some of you, with Wikipedia accounts, come over and add some constructive comments that can help both wikis get the best out of each other. David Shepheard 01:19, 21 January 2009 (UTC)