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		<title>Comments for page &quot;Sortes Sanctorum&quot;</title>
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				<title>Sortes Sanctorum vs Sortes Biblicae</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>r_b_bergstrom</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>293006</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Looking at it further, I do note that the wikipedia page that I just reverted away did say that Sortes Sanctorum is different from Sortes Biblicae, and that sometimes the two are confused/conflated. So it may be that you were attempting to correct an error on our page. It may be that we've described Sortes Biblicae instead of Sortes Sanctorum.</p> <p>If that's the case, I would encourage you to edit the page (perhaps on a smaller scale), to include some text that addresses this distinction or corrects the information here. If you do so, I would like to also encourage you to explain it in your own words, rather than merely copy-pasting text from wikipedia.</p> <p>If the distinction is interesting enough to warrant the extra effort, you might consider adding a separate Sortes Biblicae page, and move the text from this page to that page, before then explaining what Sortes Sanctorum actually is on the existing Sortes Sanctorum page. Neither are topics that I know much about, I'm afraid. My gut instinct is that even if there is a distinction to be made, this page could probably fit both topics on it (at least unless we go into a much higher level of detail than we currently do).</p> 
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				<title>We are not Wikipedia</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>Someone had replaced our Sortes Sanctorum page here with a large quote directly from Wikipedia, nearly the entire page from wikipedia.</p> <p>I reverted it to the previous version. Here's why: We are NOT wikipedia. Our goal is <em>not</em> to just blindly duplicate wikipedia. Especially for a topic such as this where the wikipedia page is sort of a dry, dense, intimidating wall of academic text. <em>(In fact, if you go read the talk page for Sortes Sanctorum on wikipedia, the only discussion there is about how the page there is a copy-paste job from an uncited older source with archaic diction. But that's beside the point, I guess.)</em></p> <p>Arcanawiki is primarily a tabletop RPG site, so our articles tend to focus on interesting ways to use something in gaming. This means we're often writing in a more informal style, with an eye on what's interesting and usable for gaming or fiction writing, rather than what's of the greatest academic interest.</p> <p>If there were specific facts on the wikipedia page you wanted to incorporate here, that'd be okay, but we should take care to:<br /> a) focus on things relevant to gaming,<br /> b) tell it in our own words instead of just copy-paste from wikipedia,<br /> c) not delete entire pages of material written by fellow arcanawiki users without a very good reason to do so.</p> <p>In regards to point c, I feel a little bad reverting your contribution. For all I know whoever made this change could also be the person who wrote the wikipedia page that I've not exactly spoken highly of. My apologies for any hypocrisy in my actions, or if I'm coming across as an overbearing gatekeeper-type. I'm not trying to chase you away, I'm just trying to explain why I undid your work so this is less likely to happen in the future.</p> 
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