Talk:ArenaNet Partner Program

Extra links

Just finished updating the page, did we want to include extra links or just match the official partner page? For example Laranity and Mukluk could have more links added to their youtube (same goes for many others). If we don't want extra links we should remove those on Plenyx --Dak393 (talk) 10:06, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

I feel that as long as the links are just as relevant (or in some cases more relevant) to their Guild Wars 2 content creation as the officially-listed links, then our providing these here makes this article more valuable than just a mirror of the Partner page. -- Dashface 12:06, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Since the goal of the Partner Program is to give more visibility to the content creators, adding more links sounds like a good idea. (+you already added a working link instead of the broken one on the website :^) ) Myriada (talk) 12:20, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Ya figured that would be the case and it's why I left the other links too, just wanted to make sure we weren't trying to mirror the main site too closely --Dak393 (talk) 12:24, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Linking to the Site vs. a Table

Recently the table has been removed and the list now just links to the ArenaNet Partner Program page, which is not being actively maintained by ArenaNet and is outdated by at least a year, missing over 40 partners and still listing some partners who no longer have their partner status disclosed on their own sites (suggesting they are no longer partners, as this is a legal requirement). Isn't there merit to having the table here, which is much more easily kept up to date by the community? This table also allowed for multiple links / more easy updating than having to wait for ArenaNet to update their site, as noted in the comment above where ANet's own page had a broken link that was able to be quickly replaced here. The table here also had room for further expansion (for example, many artists, while linking to ArtStation in their partner entries on the page, have tumblr blogs as their main outlets, which could also be added here to help platform creative partners).—Lelling (talk) 12:25, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

The official site is very much maintained and not outdated by a year. Refer to https://github.com/DeltaGW2/ArenaNet-Partners where I pull the data every day. Last Update July 24th. The new partners aren't listed yet, because it usually takes a couple of weeks before changes they get listed there. But it's by no means outdated. Partners not disclosing their partnership or still disclosing a past partnership (like Mela) is a discrepancy you will always have. In fact, the site is more accurate as it even removes PAUSED partnerships. The official site should be the single source of truth. Partners are free to list their primary outlets as tumblr, as many partners do. DeltaxHunter (talk) 12:30, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

ProjektDyad were added in January 2025, over 6 months ago, and they are not on the list on the website. So at least all 2025 partners are missing, which is more than a couple weeks. RE: links - Partners might be able to get ArenaNet to change their primary website or update their links, but again this could take time, and possibly going through an unknown process of requesting a change (it is safe to assume partners do not have direct access to editing their own entries on that page). As was noted in the above section, the partner page did have broken links for an extended period of time in the past. Out-of-date issues aside, the table on the wiki is much more readable & easy to scan, and more useful to someone who might run an event & needs to contact partners (copy-pasting the table into a spreadsheet is much easier than working with what's on the official website, for example). The discussion above also implies that the goal of at least those contributors was for this page to supplement the partner page & give more visibility to creators, rather than just mirror the page (or link to it). If the consensus is that it should be a link, that's fine too, just wanted to send a heads up that there are some benefits to having an active table here! —Lelling (talk) 12:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Couldn't a widget or similar be used to pull the data from the ArenaNet Partner Page as DeltaxHunter (talk) does and create the table here?... Lady Elyssa.2469 13:39, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

So, Lelling, I'm not allowed to name my source, but I have it on good authority that the reason the main site hasn't been updated is due to technical issues that are being addressed. Timeline still unknown.

Wiki table is a good backup, but if there doing if someone is or isn't a partner on the wiki table, the page ought to be locked down and only edited by Dev's related to the partner program. That's way no one is trying to fabricate their participation in the program. HeroineDark 14:13, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Basic javascript is polite enough (CORS) to not permit parsing another website's non-JSON page as text. In order to convert that into a table the wiki would have to use a kind of shitty workaround.

So to review, the options are:

1) A link instead of a table

2) A hardcoded table that can become out of date.

3) Some other way I can't think of right now.

-Chieftain Alex 17:21, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. Lady Elyssa.2469 18:24, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

I feel like the risk of the hardcoded table getting out of date is the same as the risk of everything else on the wiki being out of date - it's out of date until someone notices and fixes it. Perhaps it's not as frequented as the game information pages, but there's also some people in the communities of various partners that usually don't edit the wiki that would care about this part being updated. I know at least one editor who took to DMing many of the new partners personally in order to get correct links & information for the table. From personal experience, I also think wiki communities are better at keeping things consistent and up to date compared to developers (I mean this as a general statement, not just with ArenaNet). I think in general it's better for wikis to host their own information rather than rely on linking to external pages.

Besides, the table and the link can coexist on the page as well, so a user can pick whichever source they prefer / trust more, or compare the two for double-checking. Lelling (talk) 19:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

(Reset indent) I agree, having the wiki maintained table wasn't an issue before and it's preferable to have information here rather than linked in other places (that may not have history or always be up/accurate). Yes that then relies on people actually updating this page, but that seemed to be the case already in the past and it was pretty active. Still link to the official source so people can look there, but I think it was fine having a chart here too. --Dak393 (talk) 21:11, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

I agree with Alex and the removal, yes the wiki is for documenting the game and related stuff but this doesn't seem worth to me, it is also not a function or role of the wiki to support and promote Anet partners. ~Sime 17:42, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

For the record if someone chooses to put the table back, I will respect their decision. -Chieftain Alex 22:26, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Bump topic

New partners were welcomed on monday (reddit). The official list has not yet been updated with these. I'm not claiming that a wiki-updated list would definitely be updated by now, but the official one isn't. --Hazasoul (talk) 20:03, 9 April 2026 (UTC)