Thread:Ironwestie/@comment-2170536-20140423022613/@comment-5754239-20140423172132

Greetings Spottra, and thanks for your input. I appreciate that you made sure you were comprehensive with your post and that you have some feedback. The Manual of Style (which I will refer to as "MoS" for the remainder of this post), like all of our guidelines, should reflect what the community has agreed on. After we discuss this topic, I'd like to post this on the forums, with your permission.

To start off, I did not change the MoS based on your posts. I did not mean to discredit you or your posts by stating something to the contrary in one of our guidelines. As of late, I have been experimenting with what we should add to the guidelines, as I had not had any suggestions or objections until today.

I understand that the Hay Day Wiki contains both encyclopedic and unencyclopedic content. Perhaps "the Hay Day Wiki aims to be an encyclopedia on all things Hay Day" was an overstatement. I do not object to having strategy tips and user made guides, however I believe that since there are many methods in which to do something guides should be kept outside the main namespace or with a disclaimer template attached. Again, I do not object to calling this wiki a "game guide", but I prefer it to be one that is organized and not necessarily one that says this particular way to do something is the best.

I have read the entirety of Wikipedia's article on NPOV. I based the Hay Day Wiki:Neutral Point of View guideline on some aspects of their guideline. Being fair to each opposing view and avoiding offering opinions are points that I am well aware of. Stated in our guideline on NPOV are some exceptions and suggestions to this rule, such game guides and community related discussions. I quote, under the Exceptions section:
 * Community pages deal with things such as guides and tutorials, which may not be always in third person. Guides and tutorials should place community on them in order to distinguish them from other articles.
 * Pages in the Help namespace are also used as tutorials and are not always in third person.
 * Talk pages, the forums, and comments do not have to be in third person. In fact, they are harder to understand and write in third person.

To help alleviate the problem, the MoS can be changed to reflect some of the things we have talked about, namely what this wiki should be called. Bear in mind that anyone who is logged in can edit both of these guidelines. In my opinion, everything is a work in progress.

I've said this before, but I'd like some of the points we've covered posted onto the forums to get some additional opinions. I wouldn't want another person to object on this issue again.

Until next time, ~ironwestie (talk) 17:21, April 23, 2014 (UTC)