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This article should be renamed as "Current Documents Used To Play Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition."

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Or possibly "List of Rules Material for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition".

The current title is definitely misleading as they certainly aren't required to play an average game of 40k at the moment. I think the word "Used" in Ginjitzu's suggested title is also slightly misleading for the same reason.
   
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Slipspace wrote:
Or possibly "List of Rules Material for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition".

The current title is definitely misleading as they certainly aren't required to play an average game of 40k at the moment. I think the word "Used" in Ginjitzu's suggested title is also slightly misleading for the same reason.
Agreed. "Available" would be better.
   
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 Ginjitzu wrote:
Slipspace wrote:
Or possibly "List of Rules Material for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition".

The current title is definitely misleading as they certainly aren't required to play an average game of 40k at the moment. I think the word "Used" in Ginjitzu's suggested title is also slightly misleading for the same reason.
Agreed. "Available" would be better.
Feel free to make your own article. I even give you explicit permission to fork mine (although that isn't needed).

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 BaconCatBug wrote:
 Ginjitzu wrote:
Slipspace wrote:
Or possibly "List of Rules Material for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition".

The current title is definitely misleading as they certainly aren't required to play an average game of 40k at the moment. I think the word "Used" in Ginjitzu's suggested title is also slightly misleading for the same reason.
Agreed. "Available" would be better.
Feel free to make your own article. I even give you explicit permission to fork mine (although that isn't needed).
That seems unnecessary. You're article is actually excellent, and in need of no amendments that I can see. It is only the misleading title with which I take umbrage.
   
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 Ginjitzu wrote:
 BaconCatBug wrote:
 Ginjitzu wrote:
Slipspace wrote:
Or possibly "List of Rules Material for Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition".

The current title is definitely misleading as they certainly aren't required to play an average game of 40k at the moment. I think the word "Used" in Ginjitzu's suggested title is also slightly misleading for the same reason.
Agreed. "Available" would be better.
Feel free to make your own article. I even give you explicit permission to fork mine (although that isn't needed).
That seems unnecessary. You're article is actually excellent, and in need of no amendments that I can see. It is only the misleading title with which I take umbrage.
I disagree that the title is misleading. If you feel so, feel free to fork it and amend the title.
   
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The opening article line is a legitimate and self explanatory addition to the title:

The following is a list of the documents needed in order to have all the rules needed to play a game of Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition, published by by Games Workshop Group PLC


Nit picking at the title is fairly asinine imo.

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 Ratius wrote:
The opening article line is a legitimate and self explanatory addition to the title:

The following is a list of the documents needed in order to have all the rules needed to play a game of Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition, published by by Games Workshop Group PLC


Nit picking at the title is fairly asinine imo.

On the contrary, it's fairly appropriate. It is amazing that people think you somehow need to "have all the rules" to play.
Do you need the FAQ for Apocalypse if you're not playing Apocalypse? Need the FAQ for Necrons when nobody is playing Necrons?

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 Kanluwen wrote:
On the contrary, it's fairly appropriate. It is amazing that people think you somehow need to "have all the rules" to play.
Do you need the FAQ for Apocalypse if you're not playing Apocalypse? Need the FAQ for Necrons when nobody is playing Necrons?
You might not need it at that specific instant of time, but you do need it in general.
   
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 BaconCatBug wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
On the contrary, it's fairly appropriate. It is amazing that people think you somehow need to "have all the rules" to play.
Do you need the FAQ for Apocalypse if you're not playing Apocalypse? Need the FAQ for Necrons when nobody is playing Necrons?
You might not need it at that specific instant of time, but you do need it in general.

You don't need it at all if you never play Apocalypse.


Ultimately, the only documents you need to play the game are the rulebook and your codex. It's certainly helpful to have all of the rules if you are likely to find yourself playing a variety of opponents and game styles... but there are a lot of players who only ever play using the same army, against the same small pool of opponents. There is absolutely no reason for players to feel like they need codexes for armies that they are never going to use or face on the table.

So yes, the title is misleading, and I have changed it.

 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
 BaconCatBug wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
On the contrary, it's fairly appropriate. It is amazing that people think you somehow need to "have all the rules" to play.
Do you need the FAQ for Apocalypse if you're not playing Apocalypse? Need the FAQ for Necrons when nobody is playing Necrons?
You might not need it at that specific instant of time, but you do need it in general.

You don't need it at all if you never play Apocalypse.


Ultimately, the only documents you need to play the game are the rulebook and your codex. It's certainly helpful to have all of the rules if you are likely to find yourself playing a variety of opponents and game styles... but there are a lot of players who only ever play using the same army, against the same small pool of opponents. There is absolutely no reason for players to feel like they need codexes for armies that they are never going to use or face on the table.

So yes, the title is misleading, and I have changed it.
Excuse me, but what? I am going to be complaining to Yakface directly. Change it back immediately. The title is not misleading. This is nothing but an abuse of moderator power. Just because you disagree with it does not give you the right to change it unilaterally.

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I'm the article mod. It is literally my job to edit articles if I feel that there is something inappropriate about them.

I have also edited out the rant you inserted at the top of the article.

 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
I'm the article mod. It is literally my job to edit articles if I feel that there is something inappropriate about them.

I have also edited out the rant you inserted at the top of the article.
So you're editing the article now, because you disagree with it? The article did not break any rules. If I change my signature to indicate you edited the title are you going to edit my signature too?

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You're apparently still not getting the point. Your claim that all 102 of those documents are 'needed' to play a game of Warhammer 40K is false and misleading. So yes, I edited it.

The article system is not the forum. It's a collection of articles about the game, which anyone is free to edit, under oversight of the article mod. Articles will be edited if they are found to contain errors, or format issues, or for any of a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not they break the rules of the site. That's precisely how they're intended to work.


 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
You're apparently still not getting the point. Your claim that all 102 of those documents are 'needed' to play a game of Warhammer 40K is false and misleading. So yes, I edited it.

The article system is not the forum. It's a collection of articles about the game, which anyone is free to edit, under oversight of the article mod. Articles will be edited if they are found to contain errors, or format issues, or for any of a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not they break the rules of the site. That's precisely how they're intended to work.

Except there is no error. Your OPINION is that it is misleading. It is, however, not misleading. I assume then I can report any articles I find to have a misleading title and they will be immediately edited? Otherwise it seems like a case of "Rules for thee and not for me."
   
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A player with a Space Marine army, who only ever plays against someone with a Tau army does not need the Tyranid codex in order to play a game. People who do not use any Forgeworld units (which is still a lot of players) do not need any of the Forgeworld documents in order to play a game.

Those documents are required in order to have all of the rules. They are not required in order to play a game. The only documents required to play a game are the documents that specifically pertain to the armies and rules being used for that game... and ultimately, even the FAQs aren't technically required to play.

So yes, the title and the intro text to the article were misleading.


And sure, you can report any articles that you feel need to be edited. You can edit any articles that you feel need to be edited, because, again, that's how a wiki system works.

I would, however, caution against abusing that system in order to try to make some sort of point. You're making a mountain out of a molehill, here.





 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
A player with a Space Marine army, who only ever plays against someone with a Tau army does not need the Tyranid codex in order to play a game. People who do not use any Forgeworld units (which is still a lot of players) do not need any of the Forgeworld documents in order to play a game.

Those documents are required in order to have all of the rules. They are not required in order to play a game. The only documents required to play a game are the documents that specifically pertain to the armies and rules being used for that game... and ultimately, even the FAQs aren't technically required to play.

So yes, the title and the intro text to the article were misleading.


And sure, you can report any articles that you feel need to be edited. You can edit any articles that you feel need to be edited, because, again, that's how a wiki system works.

I would, however, caution against abusing that system in order to try to make some sort of point. You're making a mountain out of a molehill, here.
The intro text stating that you edited the title name was not misleading...
   
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No, it was an uneccessary rant that you added because you weren't getting your own way. So it was removed.








 
   
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 BaconCatBug wrote:
 insaniak wrote:
You're apparently still not getting the point. Your claim that all 102 of those documents are 'needed' to play a game of Warhammer 40K is false and misleading. So yes, I edited it.

The article system is not the forum. It's a collection of articles about the game, which anyone is free to edit, under oversight of the article mod. Articles will be edited if they are found to contain errors, or format issues, or for any of a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not they break the rules of the site. That's precisely how they're intended to work.

Except there is no error. Your OPINION is that it is misleading. It is, however, not misleading. I assume then I can report any articles I find to have a misleading title and they will be immediately edited? Otherwise it seems like a case of "Rules for thee and not for me."


Presumably they'd be edited if the Mod agreed with your reasoning. That's exactly how the Moderator system works - it's ultimately a group of people following guidelines and applying those guidelines to the best of their ability and judgement. The first 3 people that commented on this article all made the same point about the misleading title, so it's a bit of a stretch to claim this is some sort of Mod power trip. I think your article is a good resource for locating what rules may be needed depnding on the army you play but the title was not an accurate description of the contents of the article because I doubt there's ever been a single game of 40k played that required all of those rules sources.
   
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Shouldn't Codex: Daemonkin be removed from the list, as it's been superseded by the second printing of Codex CSM? Unless there are rules in it that aren't in the big codex.

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Edited because mod edit changed the meaning.

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