Talk:Second Life Railroad

Content editing and removal

"who are we to decide what goes and what stays"... As long as information is not out of date or proven to be wrong information should stay as it is and not be needlessly removed. This is for the benefit of all viewers of the SLRR main wiki page. --Stryker J 11:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

If the information is about Linden Labs' SLRR, is objective and is factual, it stays. If it is biased and self-serving, it goes. It's that easy, Stryker, everyone except you gets that.
Many residents are becoming aware of the "cat and mouse game" being played by the VRC with the information here, more will be soon.
Yevad Doobie has even filed a support ticket to have his entry removed from the "SLRR Stations" list.
Jer Straaf 23:37, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Linden word on the subject ;)

I'm the Linden responsible for community-facing stuff on this wiki, so I hope this clarifies:

Okay, first, Jer, it helps to not type in ALL CAPS. That looks like shouting and has the unfortunate effects of provoking anger.

Second, this isn't Wikipedia, we don't enforce NPOV like they do. Sometimes NPOV is useful, but many articles are expected to have subjective bias based on real experiences, which can turn a dry read into something more vivid and useful — especially when it comes to culture. (We're more like TVTropes that way.) However, we're always subject to the Second Life Terms of Service here, so inflammatory behavior that violates that isn't cool.

It's fine to list related pages towards the end of an article. This is not out of scope. Linden Lab encourages connecting related ideas. On help pages, you often see this as "See also" or "Related resources". (This is common on Wikipedia as well.) The point is to provide broader context without diluting the article's focus. Without those links, most Residents would be at a loss as to where to go next — in this case, to find out about other railroads. So, it's alright to list "Other Railway initiatives", and I see some of these initiatives already have their own pages. That's the right thing to do, and that's great!

Hopefully railroad factions who aren't yet included will be inspired to make the listing more comprehensive.

What would be beyond the scope of this article? As an example, if other railway initiative descriptions began to take up multiple paragraphs and dominate the article — then those should be moved to other pages too. Again, I emphasize: simple links are good.

Carry on, choo-choo!

- on 2010-09-01 @ 4:58 AM Pacific

• retracting comments from 11:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC) to Jer and Torley --Stryker J 17:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

This text-brawl needs to end now for everyone involved. I've given Jer Straaf a warning due to unuseful, inflammatory rambling which doesn't constructively followup on my earlier comments. Remember that there are many external places where dissenting opinions can be raised. This wiki, however, is owned by Linden Lab. - on 2010-09-02 @ 9:19 AM Pacific