User blog:SniperGhost/This has got out of hand....

Right the debate on mixed geneseed and loyal traitors has gone too far- even the admins are disagreeing on this so enougth is enougth, a new policy/rule is required to guide people on what is allowed and what isn't concerning this highly grey topic, which GW has been inconsiderate enougth not to detail or to contradict themselves.

This is what I propose as a compramise:

1. All mixed chapters should have 'unknown' as their geneseed and the founding ideally should be between the 3rd and Dark (13th) foundings for reasons concerning canon as the Imperium either has no records for these foundings or GW has failed to detail them, making them fair game as there is less existing canon to screw up and it should only be vaguely hinted that they might be several sources of geneseed within the chapter, rather then confirmed. 2. All loyal traitors should have very well written backgrounds and have a date of death or retirement as it is simply impossible for a loyalist to remain in active service for over 10000 years, unless they are a dreadnought, and in that case would have to be an elite or little known member of the Death Watch or some other Inquistional arm. 3. If any of these types of articles (especially the loyal traitors) are perceived by several members to be NCF for whatever reason then the author must successfully defend his arguement (and for loyal traitors must make some reference to the Horus Heresy/Grand Crusade which supports his arguement) to avoid it being deleted, modified or moved to his userspace. If they fail to do so then they will have a grace period to fix the articles so it is well written and no longer clashes with this wiki's policy. 4. I reconmend a forum or collection of forums are especially made for these arguements concerning canon, so they can be easily filed away and retrieved for reference if that arguement or an arguement of a similar point crops up again.

This policy would essientially neutralise any NCF issues, without cutting off a creative source as mixed chapters would be allowed as long as their multi-heritage, isn't explicity confirmed and DOES NOT mention the use of traitor or lost legion geneseed at all, due to the multiple controversties caused by such an action. It would also any article to redeemded, promote the authoring of more Inquistional articles and provide guidelines for judging the worth of any articles or arguements in the future so these debates can be relatively quickly and satisfactorily solved for all parties.