Forum:The Codex of Ultima Wisdom and Freeshards

As per a discussion I had with Withstand the Fury (WtF), our kind and loving host here at the Codex of Ultima Wisdom.

Basically, The Ultima Codex, which we are a part of, has become an official Ultima fansite. Go to UO Herald, and see the big pretty link in the top right corner. This is quite the honor actually, and will be a good way of driving people to our site to educate them about the Ultima series. I also have reason to suspect in the near future there will be a large increase in people accessing information about the old Ultima games, and that the good people of Mythic will be using our site.

The Problem: As WtF has rightly pointed out, as an official fan source we are being placed in a slightly more precarious position than we were previously. We have maybe 20 - 30 pages on the wiki devoted to UO freeshards and UO utilities, some of which operate against the UO Terms of Service. WtF is rightly worried that some people whom are displeased that the Ultima Codex has received official fan status while their site has not might use this as a rallying cry to have our official status revoked

Even though I dislike the idea of removing these pages, I think it might be prudent that we remove the individual UO freeshard and UO utilities pages from our wiki. These pages tend to be poorly maintained, out of date, and I think very few of our core editors have knowledge of these free shards. Discuss. Dungy 15:51, 18 May 2012 (PDT)