Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-4196050-20180101233723/@comment-26397550-20180107182626

SharpyHashtagYT wrote: I'm mainly against the notability policy as a whole.

Wikis are what people now look for info about the game they're playing, other than searching it on Bing, Google, or Yahoo!

Let's say that my own place hits 500,000 visits in a month but now starts feeling forever to get 750K let alone a whole Million. Are you telling us that we have to hit JB popularity to get on the wiki, not dealing with it. Yeah, the developer can also create their own wiki but for Roblox, they mainly look here for info about a game. Take MyROBLOX for example, it's a classic Roblox simulator but isn't gaining that many players. Just blow apart the Notability policy. Hi, we aren't removing the notability policy just so you can advertise. It would open means for the wiki to be spammed with large amounts of low-quality pages, as the notability policy is meant to cover content that is known enough to have a page that isn't forced to be a stub because nothing is known. Without a notability policy: Most other pages would follow suit- there's little to nothing to know about it so it would simply be a short stub page explaining what can be seen at a glance on the user's page. This is why the notability policy exists- to prevent mass amounts of low-quality pages.
 * You'd have the page equivalents for users basically be an infobox and "[username] is a player. They play games sometimes and they also did a thing here"
 * Game pages would just be listing stats off and the general purpose of the game rather than any sort of detailed information or history on it as there's nothing to know about it.

Now, we have the limits in place to try to regulate games that are actually known that people would actually search for, which have information that people, you know, actually may want to look up.' If there's no depth to the game since it's some test thing and also unknown, no one's going to look it up, it's all spelled out for you.

The notability policy is a line solely to dictate content so that we are not having to deal with thousands of low quality pages rather than a limited amount of higher quality pages that people actually come here to read about.

As I've said multiple times before; the wiki is not a personal advertisement space, and we are not going to remove the notability policy so that you can get your whatever out there/known. People do not come here to search for new games to play or groups to join. If you consider the wiki an ad space, then you're entirely unaware that this is an encyclopedia, and we aren't looking to put ads everywhere.

If you're desperate to have your game on the wiki, you are completely allowed to do either of the following:
 * Make a post in the off-topic board advertising it or asking for feedback, etc.
 * Make a userspace page (User:/pagenamehere). don't ask why this is using your username!! it's a template
 * Userspace pages have little difference other than they're not in the same notation, and people can still search for them via the Wiki search or search engines, so you should have zero problems.
 * As for games that are notable but do not fit the notability policy, you are 100% permitted, at any time, to argue its notability on the Wiki Discussion board. You can claim its notability and that it should be an exception to the policies. This is something I reiterate constantly to people complaining about the notability policy, but no one ever actually does this for some reason.

I too wouldn't mind making a page for myself or perhaps for my store once I release it, but even I'd wait until it had some sort of history to explain, and I'm aware that the wiki isn't made to advertise, so I just...don't. There's not even a notability policy content set in regards to designing clothes yet. Would be sure interesting if it did, though we have no idea how to regulate such a thing.

If you know of games that should be an exception to the notability policy, again you are 100% free to argue its notability. Otherwise, there's zero good argument to remove it.