I already said BGwiki allows anyone to edit anything, both FFXIclopedia and BG do this, for being my reason why I am reluctant.
And I explained to you why this isn't really a problem.
Guides generally do not get edited by other users. Talk pages allow for suggestions. And if someone makes undesirable edits you can simply revert them in about 2 seconds. I've admin'd multiple wikis over the years and I assure you even the worst changes are easy to fix.
As far as my comments about your attitude, this centers around how dismissive you've been of all the advice and suggestions presented to you. It doesn't really seem like you've evaluated what was said, and are just sticking to your guns regardless of the merit or lack thereof of any of the ideas presented.
The only "problem" I'm seeing is people not wanting me to do this on the forums.
it's not that we don't want you to do it, it's simply us telling you that it's not really the best solution. On these forums, you get very little exposure to your target audience: New/inexperienced users. The forum structure itself really isn't great for guides, which is why you don't really see many of them here if you look around. That and just really, not very many FFXI players actually utilize these forums.
Forum threads get buried over time and can be hard to find, even knowing what you're looking for using the iffy search function. If you proceed with this guide here, once you're done with it and we stop talking about it, it will quickly just fade into obscurity.
]s I said before: You can do whatever you want, I'm not ordering you or demanding that you do anything in particular. But I do hold the opinion that you might want to re-evaluate your stance, because doing so would likely allow you to make more of an impact. These words are posted here as a service to you, not as a command to do something. I also make this suggestion to you because while there are lots of guides on FFXIclopedia, most of them are pretty out of date. So it would benefit from something a little more current. But that's just my thoughts on the matter.
Regarding ascii art: There is a way around this in the form of code tags: [code ] [/code ]
Code:
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# # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # #
##### # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # #### # # #
# # # # # ###### # # ###### # # # # ###### # # # # #
# # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # #### # # # ###
This will use a monospaced font which will work with ascii art. now, I copied the text above so it doesn't come out right as some spaces were removed. But if you insert the needed spaces it will work. So if you insist on sticking with this flawed platform, you can at least add a little touch of coolness.
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