PathfinderWiki talk:Scope of the project
Re: Stubby articles versus lists
My reading of this section is that the preference is for multiple stubby articles. Is that correct? I ask because I'm working on a list of in-world books. There are many entries, but few of them are more than a couple of lines. Aeakett 19:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- Welcome to PathfinderWiki! There are several ways to approach this. You could make a simple table listing the book, author, date of publication, short summary, etc as we have done on the Monster index. The other option would be to make a single Books article which would have a number of subcategories, each with a line or two on the information on the book. See Shoanti or Darklands languages for an example of this approach. If you'd like to discuss this project more, please stop by the Forum where we can further discuss its potential (you're not the first to suggest this endeavor, actually) and implementation. -- yoda8myhead 21:48, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Edit: "D&D" -> "Pathfinder RPG"
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Just a minor adjustment: D&D has been replaced by Pathfinder RPG as the base ruleset for rules relating to the Pathfinder Campaign Setting. It should likewise be substituted in the text of this policy. Hairy Dude (talk) 22:40, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- Since some of the products were written for 3.5 I thing it would be better to append "or Pathfinfer RPG" but other than that I'm in agreement-- Cpt kirstov (talk) 14:55, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- This seems a reasonable adjustment allied to Cpt kirstov's suggestion and has been public for over a year now. I shall make this change to close down another to do.--Fleanetha (talk) 09:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
Remove core rules section
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To reflect the focus of the wiki's most active editors, I propose eliminating the "Core rules and elements" section. It is no longer applied or enforced, so eliminating it should result in few or no changes to administrators while providing freedom and clarity to editors to continue making the sweeping changes to content on core rules and elements related to the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project that are already in progress. -Oznogon (talk) 01:54, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Three months without acknowledgement. Of particular note are new articles like material and four essences; requests for citation and expansion of mechanically unclear core rules subjects like Supernatural (disambiguation) and ambiguous or inconsistent properties of 2E traits, and persistent confusion about who to support legacy core rules concepts like schools of magic and alignment in infoboxes and article content.
- Removing this section would allow the content about these subjects—much of which already existed prior to the proposal—to be expanded upon and contextualized appropriately, and for official guidance consistent with this policy to exist. -Oznogon (talk) 03:02, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
Revise scope of the audience
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I propose revising the bullet points in the list of the "major ways in which (PathfinderWiki) will be used" from:
- A game master researching information while writing a campaign.
- A player discovering more information on a topic to enhance their character.
- A fiction reader looking for more information on a specific topic.
to:
- A game master supporting players and their characters while running a campaign.
- A fan of the Pathfinder campaign setting looking for more information on a specific topic.
Game masters are the ultimate arbiters of setting canon at their tables, and PathfinderWiki should primarily serve them. To comprehensively document the campaign setting, we should serve GMs first and foremost. Players should work with their GMs to ensure continuity with their campaign and avoid spoilers; they should not rely on PathfinderWiki to do it for them.
The Pathfinder campaign setting has also expanded significantly from just TTRPG content and fiction. Acknowledge this by expanding the definition of the audience to include all fans of the setting.
As this policy is a guiding light for many other policies, these changes are in my opinion significant and require consensus. See PathfinderWiki talk:Spoilers for related discussion. -Oznogon (talk) 03:08, 17 March 2025 (UTC)