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Guild founding

Where the day the guild was born is recorded and corrected, and founders are added by hand.

What it does: The page says the date with its source, has the form to record or correct it and the list of founders, with up to 5 added by hand, each with a reason. The GM records in the game, through the founding letter; this page is for when the addon did not record, or to correct.
Who sees it: The GM in the game (a character confirmed in the highest rank, still in the guild), whoever has the permission to manage the guild and whoever has Manage Server, in a WoW: Forever guild. The others go to the book.
Where to find it: In the guild's book, in correct the founding and the founders.

How it should behave

The date goes from 4 November 2026 to today, and is a calendar day in UTC, the game's.
Once recorded, the date is corrected once here, whether the founding came from the game or the site. The same day again does not use up the correction.
A correction stays written on the page: when, who and the date it replaced.
The limit is only this page's. The most recent record wins: the GM in the game keeps correcting, and their record wins.
A founder is whoever joined by the end of the 14th day after the founding, in UTC, and the GM always.
When someone joined is the earliest date between the first time the site saw the person and what their addon or an officer's declared. A date before the launch does not count.
Each upload recalculates who joined and who left. A founder only leaves the list through the window when the founding itself changes: a datum that arrives later never takes the badge.
Whoever leaves loses the badge and stays on the list. Coming back does not give the badge back; only the addition by hand does.
The limit of 5 added by hand counts whoever left too: taking someone off frees the spot. Adding whoever already has the badge does not use a spot.
Taking off an addition by hand also takes the badge, for good.

You opened this page and landed on the book: you cannot edit the founding.
The date form is gone: it has already been corrected once here.
You corrected it and the date changed again: the GM recorded another in the game afterwards, and the most recent record wins.