Talk:Gielinor/@comment-20355458-20150817114311/@comment-4547854-20150818012324

I'm very mixed on the whole existence of this page. From one stance, I can see why it shouldn't. This literally seems like a copy-paste from the RS Wiki and if we wanted a history of Gielinor, we can easily just go to the RS Wiki and read it there.

However, this does somewhat have purpose here. As we have a page for the Adventurer, despite being a significant character enough to have a page here to clarify some stuff, why not have a page for Gielinor? If this was less copy&paste and followed the Adventurer to a lesser extent, we may have a golden page here. It's a convenient small little read for those new to the RSRP Wiki, or for some veterans even, and for further reading they can go ahead and find it on the RS Wiki.

And as an additional note, with the notion that "It's on the RSWiki, why bring it here?," then why do we have pages for so many races? Humans, Mahjarrat, Elves, etc. The RS Wiki has those pages, so why not Gielinor? Hell, we should honestly make more planet pages like Freneskae, anywhere that is RPable really. I get that the race pages are meant to be guides, but the point is still out there. We could turn this to a guide if possible, as to how to not bend/break Jagex's lore in terms of what's happened in the past.

As to the whole date thing, I do believe Jagex should start keeping track of time. Maybe not make it correlate with IRL time, as many books and movies don't do such a thing, however make it reasonable. Like, after a few quests perhaps and a bit of time goes by, Jagex should come out and say "Hey, guys, it's Year 2 now. Cheers!" I think the fact that all pre-RS3 quests are within the timeframe of a year is, for lack of a better word, absolute bullshit, and a bigger frame of time should be given to make RS time make sense.

What may have been cool is if this page recorded Gielinor as it has been in RSRP history, however I know this is very well impossible as many may have disputed claims in areas of time. So it's a good idea to stay away from that.

But as Loth said with dates, if we do use a custom set/IRL time, we do need to add the Custom Content tag as it's breaking lore Jagex has put out currently.