Talk:Gielinor/@comment-20355458-20150817114311/@comment-4547854-20150818124916

Really, it was a cool idea to make this page more of a W42 Gielinor over the normal Jagex Gielinor, however I think we should look to make this more of a guide article over a historical. I have three main reasons.

My first and probably shortest is exactly what Zoe said. Even with the most pivotal moments in RP history, this page is going to be pretty huge. Of course there can be trimming of RS moments and RP moments, but that's going to take a lot of work and converting this into a guide is so much easier.

My second is just the fact there is absolutely no "official" W42 timeline. As in, not everyone acknowledges certain events. Some acknowledge say the Zamorakian Brigade's invasion of Forinthy, while others don't. Even if we have the most important of all, there could still be conflict within that and you could also have salty people bitching that their events were more important, or you could get a flame war over a different side of the story. Of course you can't make everyone happy, that I understand, but this part of the historical Gielinor page is just very tedious to deal with and I don't know if the admins are up for constant maintenence on this page.

And the third is just the fact we have "History Of" pages for all the cities, towns, villages, etc, as well as our own character pages and other nation pages to record all that history. By leaving it as it is, you can avoid the majority of the salt as mentioned in the point above and everyone can tell their own accord of a story. Even if the History Of pages can seem like they lack content, I feel that they're good enough to keep record of our role-playing history and we have our own personal articles to further detail those reigns, what happened in those reigns and get different point of views of the events.

So that's my three cents. I think we could get away with tagging this as a Guide and continue making the planet pages. I honestly love the concept of Planet guides, because then it would help the newer role-players and even some veterans with the history of a planet, what they might find on different planets and if it were possible for their character to venture there.