Category talk:Historical Groups

Obtaining Historical Status

A policy is in place which outlines the method to attain historical status.

Groups must no longer actively contribute to the game. A nomination should be made on Category talk:Historical Groups. Within two weeks of a nomination, the group must be approved by 2/3 of the voters, and have a minimum of 15 voters for a nomination to pass. The only allowable votes are Yes and No. Groups that pass will be added to the category as described below. Groups must allow a week to pass between nominations. Groups must allow 4 months in between when the group disbands and when they can be nominated for Historical Status. (Note: Only for Malton-based groups)

Nominations for Historical Status

When nominating a group, please add a note to Template:Wiki News and add {{HistoricalGroupVoting}} to the top of the group's page. Also, please add {{HistoricalVotingRules}} under the group's application for historical status.

New Nominations

Red Rum

Voting Rules

Votes must be numbered, signed, and timestamped. They can take one of two forms: # comments ~~~~ or # ~~~~ Votes that do not conform to the above will be struck by a moderator.

The only valid voting sections are Yes and No. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote.

Once the biggest ever group of murderers in this game, I had a lot of fun with these guys when we were shooting people and each other (I genuinely didn't expect to get shot by my own team quite so much, but it always made me laugh). Probably our most impressive stuff was when 10-30 of us would show up at once and kill everyone we could see, but my particularly favourite bits were the stupid things we did, like our Tea Party in the Blackmore Building. We combat revived the RRF holding the place, barricaded it up and then, when people started turning up proclaiming it was back in survivor hands, we shot them too. Hurray!

Here's some of the stuff we did below, but there was also a lot of cool stuff with other groups, whether we helped organise it (like the St. Valentine's Cherubs) or just turned up to have some fun (too many PKA events to list!). Thanks for all the good times! --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 13:18, 6 April 2012 (BST)

Cool Events: Tommy Gun | Creedystock | The Great Military Biscuit War | Battle Royale | Siege of Jerusalem | Dia De Los Muertos | Red Ranch | Hunting Season | Big Red Vasectomy Tour

Spinoff Stuff: Flat Earth Society | ¯\(°_o)/¯ | The Daily Ruminations | PANCAKE | Scour the Earth |
Lord Curton's Gentlemen's Hunting Club

Yes

1. Y'arrr - cheers to Beardo, Strata, DevilAsh, Revenant, Dancing Banana, Suburban Ed, GioV, Cypher, Goribus, Amber, Vis, binlaggin, Vandr, phozil, dipcup, shad, Genie, bluefish, turk and no doubt a whole load more people I've forgotten for all the awesome times! :D --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 13:24, 6 April 2012 (BST)
2. While their impact on the game as a whole may be perhaps up for discussion, they seemed to be a successful PK group back in the day. Well known by the public at large, while maintaining a style of their own that set them apart from the pack. Decent enough, so a yes. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 13:47, 6 April 2012 (BST)
3. my first Pker group. ah the wanderers. this makes me sad.--User:Sexualharrison13:53, 6 April 2012
4. Absolutely. I thank all of the guys that contributed (you know who you are) and disagree inherently with Thad, but don't want to poke too much fun out of him in case he bans me again. Much love to everyone, I have really enjoyed rolling with the biggest PKing group in UD for the past seven or eight (good lord, that long?) years. --Ash  ^{|  T  |  яя  |} 14:09, 6 April 2012 (BST)
5. makeitsomakeitsomakeitso 14:11, 6 April 2012 (BST)
6. What the hell? I go inactive for a few months and you guys go dead? Not cool. But your group was cool. And DEFINITELY historical. —Aichon— 14:52, 6 April 2012 (BST)
7. :( Karl forgot me--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 16:22, 6 April 2012 (BST)
8. Red Rum was for a very long time the very biggest PKer group - and that continuously, while most PKer groups tend to fade away as fast as they rise. If you even consider to vote "no", your perception is seriously weird. -- Spiderzed█ 16:29, 6 April 2012 (BST)

   :D --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 22:05, 6 April 2012 (BST)

9. $50 says Skynet shows up to vote no on this. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 16:45, 6 April 2012 (BST)

   It seems you're still as active as ever.. A bit plan hindering on my hunt for a certain imposter masquarading around as me, but you can make it up to me if you leave this Death Cultist here with an infection next time. ;) --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 07:25, 7 April 2012 (BST)

10. YES! Asheets 16:59, 6 April 2012 (BST)
11. Piling in. These guys were before my time, but it's obvious they made a major contribution to the art of PKing. ~~ Chief Seagull ~~ ^talk 20:00, 6 April 2012 (BST)
12. --RadicalWhig 03:18, 7 April 2012 (BST)
13. Assuming that this is not another of their 'pranks', they should be passed into history without question. One of the game's defining groups. --Papa Moloch 04:01, 7 April 2012 (BST)
14. Uhm, yeah. Even if they are still active I think that predating this one then adding it when they're gone is appropriate. There's only about 4 or 5 groups I'd say that for too. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 11:41, 7 April 2012 (BST)
15. --Mallrat ^{TSI TKS CTD} 11:43, 7 April 2012 (BST)
16. This pack of lunatics unleashed a species of tongue-in-cheek madness that endlessly delighted everyone with a sense of humor and an appreciation for fine wine, and endlessly pissed off everyone who took the game too seriously. They are one of the few reasons this category exists. Bravo, Karl and company. Come visit me, or I shall cry. --Paddy Dignam^{IS DEAD} 18:20, 7 April 2012 (BST)
17. The single most infamous PKer group in all of Malton. I don't care who you are or how new you are to the meta-game, you have heard of Red Rum. And most of you at some point have either joined us or been shot by us. Oh and Axe, I've been false flagging for awhile. I'm in Ed's Peasant Militia, I just didn't want to spoil the surprise for you lot. I've also been tagging up as 'Wanderer' for revives. I told the Militia I wasn't going to tag up until Red Rum it was put up for Historical. Go ahead and check my profile again. -- Goribus 19:19, 7 April 2012 (BST)
18. Helped set the gold standard of murderous malefactors. -- Albert Schwan  _{Saturday, 7 April 2012}
19. D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 02:32, 8 April 2012 (BST)
20. Really goes without saying. --Banana reads Scoundrell for all of Yesterday's News, Today! 04:49, 9 April 2012 (BST)
21. Aww, it's a shame Red Rum is disbanding. Thanks Karl and the gang for all the laughs. -- --Kooks 10:56, 9 April 2012 (BST)
22. They'll be back. Maybe not as Red Rum but still. No one quits UD for good. Everyone returns :P        16:31, 9 April 2012 (BST)
23. Yes, yes and yes again. Red Rum was always fun to hunt and it was always a pleasure to be killed by them. Sorry to see you disband. --Raven Corvus 19:56, 9 April 2012 (BST)
24. Most notable PK group i've run into.--~ Zach016 ^D.H.H.S. 17:45, 10 April 2012 (BST)
25. We're going to miss you guys. As everyone above. --Private Mark 04:15, 11 April 2012 (BST)
26. Allah's work is done, thank you for the faithful jihad, Yes allahahalalala --Binlaggin 09:13, 13 April 2012 (BST)
27. Of course - Without a doubt, this group should be inducted into historical groups. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 20:57, 13 April 2012 (BST)

    Nay - Criteria states: "1. Groups must no longer actively contribute to the game." I assume you guys are still together in game? Do you still want to edit the Red Rum page? If so, then you'll have to wait to get included as a Historical Group. Recall that The Dead had to make a new page, rather than reopen the old one. Now, if Red Rum basically says: "Yeah, we're done." Then I will be willing to change my vote. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 22:03, 6 April 2012 (BST)

    Nah, we're done. We had a vote on it on the forums and everything. --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 01:14, 7 April 2012 (BST)

    How long ago was it? D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 08:10, 7 April 2012 (BST)

    The thread to wind up Red Rum started in December 2011 - it's definitely not a snap decision! --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 10:35, 7 April 2012 (BST)

    Yep, Red Rum has been planning this since December. The official announcement was on April 1st actually. Which everyone seems to have taken as a prank. Justasplanned.png -- Goribus 19:08, 7 April 2012 (BST)

    Sorry to hear that. You guys were great. It'll be sad to see you go. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 20:57, 13 April 2012 (BST)

28. Who? Never heard of… all, right, yes, the jig is up. Red Rum brought a whole new side of the game to life for me, probably the side that'll live with me the longest. We had some wacky antics, never took things too seriously, and had policies that had me in stitches (like the friendly fire policy which drove Grim s to distraction with our mathematical proof.) I'm particularly proud of killing my way through most of the leadership, including managing to stalk our illustrious founder Zaruthustra over the course of a week, and of keeping the group going for a while there when I accidentally fell into a leadership position, a fact that I am also proud of concealing for as long as possible, to the point where after I'd handed over the reigns there were still people who didn't know I was in the group. While we're here, let's give it up for Blue Bourbon, Green Gin, Amber Ale, Alliterative Alcoholics, Ryker & Emil: Demolishing Unsafe Masonry, Red Elves Delivering Roses Under Moonlight, Friends of the Featherstone Library and all the other wonderful cover groups that had us shooting anyone wearing "Red Rum" tags as "clear impostors".
    
    I'll miss this group, but really, after infiltrating every other group in the game, what other goals did we have left?
    
    I suppose we could do a big reveal of all our lifetime members, just to see who's shocked?… no mention of the group is complete without Sirens Discord, a very polarising figure for anyone who knew him/her, and who kept the forums going for the group for years after leaving active play. Also, IneptOne, our stealth reviver (who may or may not have pioneered the concept)… Dux Ducis, a fun guy who got eaten by RL and I'm sure is a successful executive somewhere now… Jennifer Thrush for being one scary and wonderful lady, our Muse in all things… Gunner92 for IRC hilarity… OK, now I think I'm just rambling. I'll miss you, Red Rum.
    
    Of course, I can think of no more fitting epitaph than "that strange couplet from the book of Al'hazred, the Mad Arab: “That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons, even death may die.”"
    
    Now, Karl, where'd you put the damn Biscuit Tin? I could use a Jaffa cake!
    His Imperial & Royal Highness, the Archduke d’Œuvre 

    Uh-huh... http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/199/896/2jfg08h.gif --Papa Moloch 10:41, 16 April 2012 (BST)

29. YES, YES, and YES again. This group has been amazingly memorable, for so long, and the perfect day to close its doors. Absolutely gets my vote for Historical, and apparently everyone else's (despite my continued refusal to acknowledge that the group no longer exists). Karloooooooth! *shakes his fist vehemently* --Visible One 14:16, 16 April 2012 (BST)
30. YES. Red Rum was always a fun group to deal with for the Dulston Alliance, and an absolutely hilarious bunch of folks who left their mark on Malton. They deserve this status. -- Ottari ^{DA PDA NW} Read the Dispatch! 07:48, 17 April 2012 (BST)
31. The PKer group. Infamous, effective, irreverent, creative, mischievous, and personally, inspirational. Well and truly deserving of this status. --BOSCH 10:28, 17 April 2012 (BST)
32. They already seemed at least semi-historical back when I joined. -- †  talk ? f.u. 16:14, 20 April 2012 (BST)

No

1. where to begin? 1st. voting has closed, second learn proper formatting, and finally learn to sign properly.--User:Sexualharrison23:00, 23 April 2012

With voting closed, it's readily apparent that the community views Red Rum as a historical group (and with good reason!). This bid is a success. —Aichon— 23:28, 23 April 2012 (BST)

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just a question why and how did the roftwood assault force become historical?--User:Sexualharrison04:16, 23 June 2011 (bst)

here's the vote. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 05:45, 23 June 2011 (BST)

man did it squeak by. must have been when i was inactive for a few months.--User:Sexualharrison06:06, 23 June 2011 (bst)