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 Being a Guardian would be cool. Always use the DMR. '''This is''' [[User:CraZboy557|<span style="color:orange; font-family: Gill Sans Ultra Bold; font-size: 105%;">'''craZboy557'''</span>]], '''signing off.''' 12:25, 19 February 2013 (EST)
-Hi guys, i'm just wondering why we called the site Destinypedia in the first place. I mean in the 'Destinypedia's about page' it says that they've been using the name since December 2011?
+Hi guys, i'm just wondering why we called the site Destinypedia in the first place. I mean in the 'Destinypedia's about page' it says that they've been using the name since December 2011? -[[User:DarkKnight|DarkKnight]]
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+:Because the owner of this site is also owner of http://halopedia.org. Thus its pretty logical for the site to be called destinypedia. [[User:Sgtfrankieboy|Sgtfrankieboy]] ([[User talk:Sgtfrankieboy|talk]]) 17:13, 20 February 2013 (EST)
+I can confirm that destiny.wikia was the first (created on May 23, '12), followed by destinypedia.wikia (created on September 19, '12) and now this wiki (domain registered on November 28, '12). As for why "destinypedia", it's a common naming convention to use "{GAME}pedia". I've made several suggestions with regards to changing the wiki name to something of unique identity in my previous comment but no one has replied yet.  — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 21:17, 20 February 2013 (EST)
+:destinypedia.wikia moved from destinypedia.net. [[User:Sgtfrankieboy|Sgtfrankieboy]] ([[User talk:Sgtfrankieboy|talk]]) 21:19, 20 February 2013 (EST)
+::Well, that domain (.net) was registered on December 22, '11. So, the original destinypedia came first, followed by destiny.wikia and now this wiki.  — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 21:31, 20 February 2013 (EST)
+Destinypedia was chosen because 1) it matches the Halopedia template as the sister-site and 2) destinypedia.com was available. I'd prefer that the domain name matches the wiki name, and I'm not sold on "Ad Astra". Using "Destiny Wiki" doesn't help with originality because there's another Wikia named that. I don't want to rush into a change, so we'll stick with this for now. First I want to wait until we get more Destiny info. If we learn of a super-intelligent race or some kind of book of knowledge in the series, those types of things would be cool names to look at. In the meantime, people can realize that we're the independent Destinypedia and they're the Wikia one. As I said, it's the same way with minecraftwiki.net and minecraft.wikia.com and I think people get the difference. I'd also like to keep the name for a little to see how things progress--having the .com name counts for something. I understand they had destinypedia.net and later created destinypedia.wikia.com (after destiny.wikia.com btw), but I personally don't view that as a huge deal because creating a Wikia site takes two seconds and requires no effort. If they had an independent wiki at destinypedia.net already, I wouldn't have used the name. I already saw a Wikia staff member poking around about merging the wikis. Is there a history of two huge/popular Wikia sites covering the same series? I don't see that in 5 years destiny.wikia.com and destinypedia.wikia.com both being huge sites with tons of articles each covering the same topic. I imagine either a merge or one will be much smaller. Wikia has an interest in having only one site, and to match the pattern, it would be destiny.wikia.com. When they analyze that we're destinypedia.com, they'll want to use the "Destiny Wiki" name for their site. So if we're persistent, we may get to solely use the name that matches Halopedia and the ideal .com name that goes with it. Worst case, it's the Minecraft Wiki scenario and people figure out there's an independent one and a Wikia one. But don't get too caught up in that rant, because like I said if there's something fitting from the Destiny universe, we'll definitely think about using it for a name. P.S., we're on friendly terms with destiny.wikia.com. They approached me and said hey, no need for hostility between Destiny fans. destinypedia.wikia.com was nasty to me when I approached them with the best intentions, and I guess they also kind of bucked destiny.wikia.com a little by creating destinypedia.wikia.com after destiny.wikia.com was already created--a second Wikia site to serve the same purpose as one that already existed. I don't mean that to be ironic about what we're doing: the point of this wiki is to be the independent Destiny site and an alternative to Wikia, so the number of Wikia sites didn't really factor in because they're not alternatives to Wikia. We still serve the purpose of being independent so we don't have to deal with the imposing Wikia staff, theme, and extreme number of advertisements--things Halopedia has a history of knowing about. --[[User:Porplemontage|Porplemontage]] ([[User talk:Porplemontage|talk]]) 22:20, 20 February 2013 (EST)
+Hopefully people will come here instead of the destiny wiki. It's already got a "speculation" section which is something that caused Halo wiki to fail. Also they're not sourcing their stuff so we'll win in the end. --[[User:JoshuaGregory|JoshuaGregory]] ([[User talk:JoshuaGregory|talk]]) 05:20, 10 March 2013 (EDT)