Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-30552110-20170228014926/@comment-4812386-20170301014724

A wiki isn't a publish-anything-you-want garbage dump or a self-promotion medium. Allowing articles about any topic in content namespaces would unfortunately turn it into that. However, users can publish any article as a subpage of their user page because it is only for content namespaces that the inclusion criteria is determined by the notability policy.

The notability policy is about notability, not popularity. There can be an article about any subject if there's consensus that the subject is notable. The numbers of place visits and group members are just heuristics for determining quickly whether a subject is notable. They're bad heuristics because they only account for popularity. If you have suggestions of heuristics that account for other factors that can make a subject notable and that can be determined objectively and easily, we can update the notability policy to include them.