Board Thread:New on SporeWiki/@comment-1073312-20151009230119

Hello

One thing that is charming about the fiction universe is that there are always new ways to make content. One trend that is current, is the use of diplomatic bureaus, manifestos, media outlets (which is rousing interest recently) and assessments of other fiction's economic and political power. These are great editions to the universe, because they represent reality a great deal.

But, like in reality, these new modes of fiction also contain a lot of subjective points of view. Most articles are still written in an objective way [or from the user, who's opinion is always the right one ;)], and so this represents a new challenge for the wiki.

There have been concerns from a number of users, including myself that such fiction may create perception shifts of fictional empires and characters. Inevitably, the DCP is one example, it is seen differently by different users. I guess that the DCP probably feels more bad or imperialistic to newer users due to it's behaviour in GXS (and that it is more outwardly colonial than the Xonexi). The problem is this: how are new users supposed to know what is true and what isn't?  How will that inform their decisions in the fiction universe?.

This revelation actually came to me today after reading the French Colonial Empire/Mirusian Diplomatic Bureau. I'm not going to bash it, but when I first read it this morning, it made me think of how the ULE took on a policy of appeasement, which made sense. Reading it again this evening, I pondered: How true is this?  From what I already know, the Dominatus and ULE gave each-other a wide birth. Fortunately, I know this information, but newer users may not. And given that Catface has been inactive a long time, there is no easy way to find out. Now lets step back into the fiction universe. The French have every reason to believe the ULE was appeasing the Dominatus and extragalactics.

At the end of the day, all of us here want to be able to build fictions without belittling others. It is a source of great anxiety for many I have spoken to. One step forward in my opinion, is add this template to pages with subjective content (and that may include foreign relations articles). I do not want to force everyone to use this template, but I would encourage using this template. It benefits your anxiety just as much as it could help newer users, or anyone in fact, to study the fiction universe a bit more and not read one source and pass it off as fact.

Finally, I just want to say that this template is open for editing. Please consider amongst yourselves how it should look. I also think it should have a picture to go with it, possibly diplomacy-related. Have fun making such designs and choose one amongst yourselves on this thread. But the template can be added straight away to pages as well. 