Board Thread:Wiki Admin Talk/@comment-4932052-20130610144646/@comment-4812386-20130610232750

The rules currently state that there should not be articles about groups with less than 10,000 members or about users or places with less than 250,000 place visits. If you disagree with the rules, you are free to suggest changes to them on the forum or on the rules page's talk page, and if you can get other people to agree with you, then the rules may be changed.

Currently, however, unless group, user or place articles comply with the requirements, or unless there is strong consensus to keep them, they cannot stay in the main namespace. However, you are free and encouraged to put such pages on your user space.

The reason for this is that each page in the main namespace gives everyone on the wiki a lot more maintenance work, and having to spend hours fixing and improving pages about users, groups or places that are not important or that nobody cares about is not a very good way to spend our time when it could be spent improving other aspects of the wiki.