Talk:Yahoo! Role-Playing

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I am looking for some of the old urls for the realms, I know they are out there. I just don't have the link list on my lap top, its all on my comp which is in storage. So if anyone wants to help out and post them, that would be cool. eNiasni 16:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC) eNiasni

[edit] Cite Sources People!

This page badly, badly needs a total overhaul. Sources, for one - but also information on notability, and the formatting does not conform to WP:STYLE either. I thought about adding it to WP:XFD, but I think it can be improved. --Haemo 11:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey eNiasNi - you are tackling a hard topic that Wikipedia has seen fit to delete before when focusing on some of the larger more noteable roleplay communities that grew during the Yahoo Chat era. There have been seperate pages created for Ayenee and Eden that I have seen, but they were all removed eventually due to sources not being reliable. What can you do but publish it for prosperity on your own website? There is not much else that can be done in my opinion, it is a pity that such passtimes may eventually be forgotten and misconstrued. Recording history is selective anyway. We only really read about what selective people believe should be recorded. I'd love to give you my assistance with this, but going by the previous attempts from other people, I don't think it's worth the effort as it will most likely only be removed.

--Tina 06:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely, I was a part of this community once upon a time, and I don't believe there could exist one reliable source to verify any of this information. Kind of sad. --Kinkify 23:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Sources

Most of the sources of this information come from the first hand accounts of people who were involved in the maintance of Ayenee, Tenaria, Eden and (unfortunately) Gor roleplaying relms. The majority of the original sites including Ayenee Is and tutoral boards such as the Tech board and Psi Board have long since been lost.

- Chance Gearheart