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 ::These articles were written in a way that a person talks to you. Tom Dawson guides you through during these lessons. That's why there was decided not to remove the bylines from these articles. At least that's what I understood, apparently that's not correct.
 ::--[[User:Qazaaq|Qazaaq]] 18:07, 20 August 2007 (EDT)
+:::These guides were never mentioned except as an example of "narrative" guides as opposed to "manual" style guides. And while I do not believe it is necessary to ''remove'' the bylines, the tag should still remain - these guides should not be frozen, but updated, and the tag explains that to readers. There are a couple of dtom guides that have been updated substantially by people other than dtom before the discussion ever took place - I think perhaps the bylines should be removed from those, because it is no longer truly accurate. Should the same happen here, we should consider removing the bylines.
+:::For now, these are dtom's words, and so the byline should remain. However, I do not believe that guides with a "voice" require a "name" - if you read this without a name attached to it, it still talks to you just as much. Do you know dtom? I don't - it's just the name of a guy who wrote some wonderful guides as far as I know. "Narrative" style guides are not an exception.
+:::Personally, I like the tag as a compromise to those authors who cannot be contacted. To remove the byline without their consent may be very rude, so we can leave it there and use the tag to explain the situation. This seems fair to me.
+:::Perhaps another tag could be made for ESF posts which got transfered to the Wiki for safe-keeping - explaining where they came from originally and such. I'll think about it, and you may certainly have input. This is kind of an awkward transition for content, because you're moving from a very private medium (your posts are very much your words) to a very public medium (the Wiki). When possible, explicit permission is best, but because of the pruning practices on the ESF, sometimes we want to save something by an author we cannot contact. That would be the aim of such a tag.
+:::Anyway, as always, discussion is welcome, but perhaps this ought to continue in the appropriate area of the [[Community Portal]]?
+:::[[User:DragoonWraith|<span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">D</span>ragoon <span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">W</span>raith]] [[User_talk:DragoonWraith|<span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">TALK</span>]] 18:21, 20 August 2007 (EDT)