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Should we create a kinship template to make every entry the same?

{| kinship-infobox
| name        = Name of Kinship
| image       = Name_of_Kinship.png
| website     = http://www.nameofkinship.com
| leader      = 
| officers    =
| description =
| progress    =
|} 

Should we force each kinship to have their own page? --Hinney 11:35, 19 March 2007 (PDT)

Or should it be one page per server - hopefully there will be different names for US & Euro servers - with Kinships listed alphabetically? DancesInTrees 01:41, 20 March 2007 (PDT)

--I support the idea of a template for Kinships. Very much. The EQ2 wiki site (eq2i.com) uses a template and it's valuable. I'm sorry to say I am not skilled enough at wiki code to create such a thing. Broogen 2Apr07

I support the one page per server. And I think the infobox should include server on it. And I haven't a clue how to do it either (yet). :-/--YuriPup 06:33, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

We'll get to it eventualy... Gryphen already started adding some of those templates... --Xander 06:41, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

It would be nice to create a category page for kinships like we do for items and quests and that will give us two methods to search for kinships. Something like

• Create page for kinship using the <Kinship> (World) as the page name

Protectors of the Apple Pie (Brandywine)

• Then attach two categories to the kinship page

[[Category:Brandywine Kinships]][[Category:List of Kinships]]

But I think most ppl would find that overwhelming to do. So when the this page gets to big i guess a simple alphabetized table listing "<World> Kinships". We then can include a brief header for each page

Splitting this page to EU and NA lists

Option A)

Split the 'list of kinship' page into two lists:

• List of Kinships (NA)
• List of Kinships (EU)

And update the Main Page to indicate

• List of Kinships EU / NA

Option B)

Create a sorted table of Worlds for EU and NA that links to each List of Kinships (World) page.

Option C)

Do both but create sections instead of pages for the List of Kinships (World) since there's still just a handful of kinships listed.

Any Thoughts --Hinney 19:25, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

B) sounds good to me - even though some of the pages would be a bit bare yet (primarily the new EU servers) they're filling up nicely so I'm sure it wouldn't be long before they all in use. DancesInTrees 11:19, 26 April 2007 (PDT)

I just wanted to say that I will be keeping the Gladden list of kinships in alphabetical order in case someone notices my edits of that list. Also the current page format is fine but perhaps we should add a template to the kinship listing. The template should include name, size category (small, medium, large, and huge), casual/hardcore, family friendly (y/n), voice capable (y/n), main playtime (EDT prime, PDT prime, Euro, etc), last updated and description. Existing listing could be edited to add put the new fields in place. This format would add some basic info people are looking for in this type of guild list and would also have a datestamp so that people would know the guild is likely still around. --Bodha 14:13 EDT April 26

North American Worlds Arkenstone Brandywine Elendilmir Firefoot Gladden Landroval Meneldor Nimrodel Silverlode Vilya Windfola

European Worlds English French German Eldar Estel [RP] Belegaer [RP] Evernight Sirannon Maiar Gilrain Morthond Laurelin [RP] Vanyar Snowbourn

Just a thought... What do you think? --Hinney 01:38, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

I'm not a fan of the pale yellow inside pale orange. More to the point, how about 3 columns in each, then there can be a column each for English, German & French worlds. And the details need to be forced to a new line as the mixture is giving an uneven effect.

No that leaves too much space & still looks wrong. Trying headings instead with [RP] appended where necessary.

I prefer that (this). Not sure about the US worlds now though - should they still have 4 columns? Which way should the alphabetical order go?

moved to test page --Hinney 02:03, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Not sure i like what i did lol, but I think 3 columns is fine.. yeah hte alphabetical is kinda transposed but this is easier to maintain when the server grows --Hinney 02:10, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Protection

Page Protection

We need to devise a scheme to protect this page from bad edits. --Lotroadmin 18:42, 28 April 2007 (PDT)

How about lock the page, and have a separate page for people to add their kinship details or changes - obviously that means a lot more work in copying info across, but maybe not much worse than dealing with bad edits. DancesInTrees 05:36, 29 April 2007 (PDT)