BoyWiki:Agora/29 May 2015

Agora/29 May 2015

Essays

Shall we create a header for essays that informs readers that the views expressed are not necessarily the opinions of BoyWiki? Lysander (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, you can if you want however I am guessing that a lot of the stuff in category essay is going to be eventually purposed for deletion because it is poorly sourced and does not have any informational, cultural, artistic, or historic significance to boylove. --Etenne (talk) 20:34, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

I thought the whole point of an essay was to do the kinds of synthesizing, editorializing, and original research in general that are prohibited by Wikipedia. Lysander (talk) 20:53, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

BoyWiki is first and foremost a cultural and historical archive of information about Boylove. It's not a blog, or BoyChat, where such things are more appropriate. However, some essays are acceptable if historically relevant, well written, comical, ect... and appropriately referenced. So for example an essay by Tom O'Carroll or some other know public figure may well be appropriate and worth being preserved and archived... simple opinion pieces by an unknown Joe Schmo are probably not.--Etenne (talk) 21:34, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Is BoyChat a suitable archive? For example, can ancient posts to BoyChat still be found by Google? BoyWiki has a few advantages, for example that the text can be wikified. Lysander (talk) 22:57, 29 May 2015 (UTC)