Historical Content on TibiaWiki[]
First let me state that it just happened that I posted this here, there were at least a good dozen other pages that this could've been written on, but by luck of the draw I've ended up here. Feel free to move this to a more correct page if desired.
Now down to business...
I've noticed that the Yellow Spell Wand page redirects to the Wand of Cosmic Energy page automatically. I was wondering why TibiaWiki couldn't have a page for the now removed Yellow Spell Wand as a historical reference for people who may wish to see the way Tibia was. Of course to avoid confusion at the top of the page there could be a message in a big, bold font reading to the effect of WARNING, THIS PAGE CONTAINS HISTORICAL CONTENT WHICH IS NOT APPLICABLE TO THE CURRENT RELEASE OF TIBIA.
Additionally, I've noticed that there are a lot of screenshots on TibiaWiki from older editions of Tibia, which would almost be unrecognisable to players who just started today. While I would be happy to go around taking new screenshots of these things, I would object to simply replacing the old with the new as the old screenshots would be a valuable historical reference for people interested in history of Tibia. So, unless there's something like this already that I don't know about, would it be possible to create a vault of sorts where historical images could be moved to when being replaced with updated images. The vault page needn't be anything more than a page listing the images in the fashion set out below..
Image001.jpg
Image002.jpg
Image003.jpg
..where each entry is a link to the image, and each entry is a brief, descriptive name, for example "Hardek73.jpg" where this file would be a screenshot of the NPC Hardek from the 7.3 edition of Tibia.
Things that would be worth recording would be the different display of Hitpoints/Names, different outfits/styles, different textures, screenshots of places that have been heavily renovated (for example Ab'dendriel prior to the 7.9 update) and the like.
Feel free to discuss this, and I await with interest a reply from an administrator.
Regards, Clyde.
There is no particular page that this exactly fits into. I made a similar post on Talk:Tibian History about recording specific historical events and such. Your idea, is slightly different but the two can work together. Perhaps all such history information could just fall under the page title History. Old images, significant events, stories, old facts, no-longer-existent players, items, places. Since some other pages have been 'resurrected,' most old item pages should be brought back. Thinking on tibiahistory.com, which has unfortunately fallen apart, i wanted to bring those same topics here. Only with Taghor and Havey's permission, though, could their specific articles be moved here, but old images can be.
--DM ><((°> Contribs <°))>< talk to me 13:55, 21 May 2007 (PDT)