Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-26397550-20190724024112

Hi all, it’s time for another announcement set. There’s been some minor policy changes, new additions, and just something we’d like to advise you about this time.

Policy changes
These are some minor tweaks we've made to the policies or that will be added shortly to account for Roblox's progression.

Notability criteria
We've made two minor tweaks to the notability criteria:
 * The subscription count criteria under players that are YouTubers has been raised to 50,000 (from its previous minimum of 10,000).
 * Community Sages are now included as an addition to player notability criteria under the same specification of Roblox employees (in that a good amount of information is necessary for the player, otherwise the page will not be allowed).

Please keep in mind for the YouTuber subscriber change that any player articles that followed the 10k minimum made before the change are grandfathered into new policies and may remain as long as they are otherwise stable articles.

Game Promo codes policy
Very soon, we will be adding and enforcing a rule that no longer permits the addition of promotional codes for a specific game to its article or other separate article. In other words, we won't be allowing any promocode lists on game articles anymore. These are better suited for a game-specific wiki. Feel free to start helping early by removing these if you know of articles with them.

Wiki Additions
Here's some side things we've added to the wiki for your usage. Keep in mind that although these additions may be used however you want, they must still abide by our wiki policies.

New Userboxes
Have you added any userboxes to your profile? We've kept it updated with new additions, but just recently we've added the Personal Specialized section of three special userboxes.

User timezone isn't new, but we'd like to draw some attention to it, especially as we've moved it. Using the documentation, you can configure this to show as your used timezone. Depending on your timezone, you may need to change this twice a year, so keep that in mind. (You can also use User daylight along with this, if you want.)

A brand new specialized userbox is User developer. At default, it just stands as a notice that you're a developer on Roblox, but using parameters you can find on its documentation, you can select a particular field of development to display. Use multiple copies of the userbox if you apply to multiple fields, if you'd like.

There's also another new userbox under this section- User lgbtq. This is a special userbox that we've had up for a while, and originally planned during Pride Month, but it ran a little late. If you're interested in showing your LGBTQ+ pride or even standing as a straight ally, read the documentation for how to add it to your profile. You can use multiple copies of the userbox if you categorize under more than one selection. Remember that you don't have to use these, but they are just an option!

Message Wall Greeting
It's not entirely the most common thing known that you can customize the little region above your message wall to list some stuff like personal guidelines or just some reminders. You've seen most of the staff using them, but might not have known you've been able to do so yourself the entire time! So, we've added an edit button to your message wall greeting so that it's a lot easier to change it!

You're free to put just about anything on there, but please keep in mind the following:
 * Repeating wiki-wide rules is pretty redundant, so we suggest not taking space up to remind people of them
 * Admins are not obligated to moderate any "rules" you set for your own wall
 * Please don't make it intrusive or bulky, and don't use it to make it harder for people to use your message wall

We encourage anyone and everyone to customize their message wall greetings, even if it's just welcoming the visitor to your wall.

Reminders
And a few quick reminders to close off:
 * Rants or brigading on this wiki are prohibited in any form
 * We do not allow posts talking about your ban or other moderation
 * Please remember to link correctly on articles
 * For pages within the wiki, you do not need to use a full link; you can link to Builders Club by using Builders Club instead of Builders Club
 * Please link to players using Player link. We prefer over ROBLOX . The template automatically links either to a community page or the Roblox profile depending on if they have a page or not.

Page comments
We regularly clean out articles of unconstructive or spammy comments. If you don't want your comments to be deleted, please have a purpose to them and be polite and courteous.

We often find that people who frequent some articles go on the comments to question deletion of comments in these cases. As an additional note, please ask a wiki staff member on their wall for more information instead of posting these. These are considered off-topic comments.

Shutdown Rumor Disproving
There’s been some rumors going around about Roblox shutting down in 2020. As is with every single one of these rumors set upon by YouTubers, please be advised:

Roblox IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN. These are FAKE rumors!!!

The "twitter post" being given as "proof" isn't from an official Roblox account at all. Nothing is shutting down. Companies at this level of stability do not shut down out of nowhere. This is easily false simply by common sense!

Don't believe extreme rumors told to you by random people. Roblox YouTubers are NOT reliable resources for this stuff.

Thank you!

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