Let's improve the Blackmoor Wikipedia article!

[Big Mac]

A "Blackmoor Wiki" would be a ton of work. I don't think anyone here wants to go to the effort of building a bespoke Blackmoor encyclopedia. It would be a job that would take years to build.

The question is also that WotC has sort of modified their treatment of their copyright over the years. I certainly wouldn't want to do a lot of work to later have it shut down (or simply copied) by the IP holder.

This is why an encyclopedia (any encyclopedia) needs to be something that does not "replace the need to buy the books". For Spelljammer Wiki, I am pushing for a canon only encyclopedia, with zero gaming content. It will citate the exact page numbers of the original books, but not replicate the game rules contained within them.

I've had a few people misunderstand this and copy and paste stat-blocks onto pages. I've got to delete that stuff, but I don't want to chase off the people doing it. I need to somehow educate people into the benifit of not doing a wiki that is "everything".

(If someone else wants rules, they could always turn to unrelated subjects, like the 3e conversion elsewhere.)

My major concern at the moment is that Wikia have ignored my request to turn off the "magazine creator" that will "sell content" from my wiki.

You know what? I'll grant you a special pass so we can discuss this.

Shiney!

Very concise explanation, thanks. That's why I am more for putting together an article based on HTML or similar script and then posting it on a number of pages, instead of going to wiki.

Sounds like a good place to start. We could post it here, on the wiki at mystara.us, DF, the Piazza, my blog etc, if you are interested

I actually think the best thing "for Blackmoor" would be for you to continue doing your great blog work (especially the stuff that gives behind the scenes information). That work would then build a reliable "secondary source" that could supply citation sources for all the weak points in the Wikipedia article.

In fact, I think you could write on demand. You could, for example, do an article that lists every Blackmoor product and gives a backround about when it was published. That would be the perfect way to create a "secondary source" that can be used to support the notability of all of those books (not that I'd want each of them to get a Wikipedia article).