| veector |
I was shocked to see that no one had actually started the article. So I did it just to add some brief information.
I'm not experienced enough with Wikipedia to know the conventions well enough to write comprehensive articles including links and such. So I'm calling out to get others to add to the article.
It would be preferable if someone other than Paizo folks could write about the Pathfinder RPG and make sure to keep it as unbiased as possible.
| apotheon |
Get a list of as many non-paizo.com references as possible.
I tend to write a lot about Pathfinder RPG and its relationship with D&D in the relatively new RPG category at SOB (my personal Weblog). While I'm not too keen on posting links to my own writings at Wikipedia as source material, for fear of a perception of conflict of interest and "original research" arguments, I figure that if someone else wants to link to my treatments of the subject as sources for some additions to the Wikipedia article, they're welcome to do so.
| apotheon |
Anyone who's interested in the Wikipedia article -- I recommend you head over there and contribute more reference links, more content, et cetera. I've seen someone come through and delete a good-sized chunk of information from the article (not rephrase it -- delete it), and someone else recommend the entire article for deletion because there wasn't enough independent (read: non-Paizo) information in the article and in reference links. I added a couple of links after that and removed the deletion recommendation from the page, but I'm not sure they won't come back, and I don't have the time to check on it daily to see if someone else found some other "notability" complaint for the article.
The Pathfinder RPG article at Wikipedia needs a little bit of babysitting to make sure it survives to the point where it is no longer subject to these dangers. If there are a lot of people checking into it when they have the time, and contributing content and links as needed, it'll be easy for everyone involved to do his or her part. If there's only one or two of us, it will be much more difficult, and we may fail to keep the page intact.