User talk:Truemper

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Fan fiction
Hi, i think i saw you were working on an article about some home-made game not created officially under the Star Trek copyright

At this time, we aren't creating new articles like this, because there are probably thousands of games like this on the net, far too many to list on Memory Alpha's limited diskspace and bandwidth.

If you wanted to create a link to the Borderlands site, things of that sort are listed at fan gaming. -- Captain M.K. Barteltalk 22:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

PBEM RPG
Okay, I didn't realize that that kind of content was not desired. I was thinking that the concept here was to bring all things Trek together on one page.

One thing you do need though I think is an article on Play-by-email (PBEM) RPG's vs. other types, such as IM and Forum RPG's.... You may not want to connect directly to specific RPG's but I still think it would be good to educate people on the different styles of trek gaming that are out there.


 * We have a page called fan gaming where you could add information like that.


 * I'm not sure that people's home-made email games are part of "all things Trek" -- but hopefully we can give them a chunk of space there. Since things like this have no built-in quality control on content, playability, or interest, its really hard to write factual article about them or the things contained within -- so that would definitely fall outside our scope as an encyclopedia. Reasons like that, combined with the fact that our webspace wouldn't accomodate detailed descriptions of hundreds of thousands of websites, half of which will probably close or reopen randomly; these are reasons why we concentrate on things that are created by Paramount Pictures, legal owners of the Star Trek name.


 * There is a http://stexpanded.wikicities.com page that does try to accomplish this with games however... and feel free to edit here if there's anything about valid Star Trek topics you wish to add... --- Captain M.K. Barteltalk 23:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)