Thread:Haldarn/@comment-31941757-20170529031724/@comment-195370-20170529070002

You can find policies and guidelines at FFXIclopedia:Community_Portal;. To be honest, that's not been updated in a long time, so some aspects of it are outdated and/or irrelevant now.

If this is with regards to info copied from BG-Wiki there's nothing formal in the policies as, when they were written, it wasn't considered there would be another community project covering the same information.

Consider, though, that we are a tiny community in comparison to a decade ago, and that time enough is spent currently attempting to maintain and update information for FFXI - there is simply neither time nor resources to cause conflict with the BG-Wiki authors, who will defend their moral right to exclusively display the original content they've created.

As mentioned before, cloning articles reduces FFXIclopedia's relevance as a source of information, in comparison with BG-Wiki. It also gives the site a bad reputation in the wider community and, quite frankly, is unnecessary.

Articles on any topic, written from FFXIclopedia contributors' points of view, are more than welcome of course!

As a collaborative site, my word isn't necessarily final on any given issue, but as the only active admin (due more to the fact that no-one else wants the job), it's me who has to take the time dealing with the fallout of this kind of thing - time I would rather spend editing/playing. If you do disagree with my point of view and have another solution, do put it forward and we can consider it together.