Forum:CT:Changing Official Partners to Official Friends

As you know, here on Star Wars Fanon we have Official Partners. Partner is an interesting term here in that it's not used very often to describe what it's meant to achieve. Most websites say they have Official Friends or Affiliates. To me, Partners implies that there has to be some sort of benefit to us, that a partnership must absolutely guarantee a benefit or else it's not worth it. I'm not sure that's the best course of action.

I prefer the term Official Friends. What that implies is an endorsement. It's two sites saying that they approve of one another, and that you should go there&mdash;and that is the key benefit. It's far more clear to the layman than Official Partners, because it doesn't raise questions about what kind of partnership it is. Official Friends simply says "here is a list of sites we endorse." I would hope that this will lead us to view future friendship requests not through the lens of "what's in it for us?" but rather "is this a site we want to publicly say we approve of, and a site we're comfortable with saying endorses us?"

So I propose a simple change from Official Partners to Official Friends. This will change on the main page, and Star Wars Fanon:Official Partners of Star Wars Fanon will move to Star Wars Fanon:Official Friends of Star Wars Fanon.

Voting will last for one week, until January 2, 2013, unless more or less time is required. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil.

Support (1)

 * 1) As the proposer. - Brandon Rhea (talk)  18:27, December 26, 2012 (UTC)