Talk:Periphery

Sources?

Where does the information about the Hanseatic League come from? Frabby 04:01, 28 February 2009 (PST)

Maybe from Field Manual: Periphery, The Periphery, or The Periphery 2nd edition? I'm not really in the mood to check which, but I think its from one of those. Onisuzume 04:42, 28 February 2009 (PST)

Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League may be in the Deep Periphery, but that is still the Periphery. Why should it not be included in a list of Periphery nations? --Scaletail 19:19, 7 March 2009 (PST)

The Deep Periphery is located beyond the Periphery. The first is "misterious, legendary, largely unknown, and far far away" to the Inner Sphere which has irregular contact through ComStar with the Periphery. If it were the same then there is no point in having two articles at all. The Hanseatic League is included in the Deep Periphery article as it should.

I agree with Scaletail. The Hanseatic League has more worlds than the St. Ives Compact, and a formidable army compared with some of the Periphery powers listed. A similar argument could be made for other deep periphery realms. Previously, Deep Periphery resided beneath the "See Also" heading. So far, I took the liberty of elaborating this small section to include the five major deep periphery powers.

I know this might mess up some links, but why not combine the articles? In that way, "deep periphery" powers would be a fourth catagory on this page, easier to navigate to and higher profile. That, or perhaps place a link to Deep Periphery on the main page.--S.gage 01:20 6 May 2009 (EDT)

My feeling is that people do in fact differentiate between the (near) periphery and the deep periphery, and that they should be treated separately. But I admit that this is arbitrary. As a compromise, I suggest to include a disclaimer in the article that says something to the effect that "periphery" as per this article refers to the "near periphery" adjacent to the Inner Sphere while technically the it also includes the "deep periphery" beyond. Frabby 23:19, 5 May 2009 (PDT)

Wording

I am somewhat concerned about the wording of the text - it is not encyclopedic, but rather looks as if it was taken verbatim out of a sourcebook. If the latter were the case then this would be plagiarism and in violation of the "free content" core policy of this wiki. Can anybody confirm or falsify this suspicion? Frabby 23:19, 5 May 2009 (PDT)

Arbitrary classification

Differentiating between "major", "medium" and "minor" periphery powers is somewhat arbitrary and as such I suggest this separation is abandoned for the article. Plus, there should be a category "Periphery factions" to which this article should link. Frabby 23:19, 5 May 2009 (PDT)