Help:Article creation guide

This page will give you some tips on creating articles on the ROBLOX Wikia.

Notability
First of all, before creating an article, you need to determine whether its topic is notable. Just like encyclopedias cannot cover every topic, this wiki cannot have an article about everything. As a general rule, subjects are notable if one of the following criteria is met:


 * There is consensus (local or global) that the subject should be covered in the wiki.
 * The subject is a functionality, an aspect or an important element of ROBLOX; specifically, there can be an article about a subject if it is one of the following:
 * an element of the scripting API (in which case it should have a page in the Class namespace), such as a class or a function (properties, methods, events and callbacks are described on the page of the class they belong to).
 * a feature or a functionality of the game engine, of the studio or of the website.
 * an important event related to ROBLOX (such events do not necessarily need to be organized by ROBLOX).
 * The subject is a group that meets at least one of these criteria:
 * has at least 15,000 members.
 * has been the subject of an entire post on the official ROBLOX blog.
 * The subject is a user who meets at least one of these criteria:
 * has at least 750,000 place visits.
 * is a ROBLOX employee whom a reasonable amount of information is known about.
 * has been the subject of an entire post on the official ROBLOX blog.
 * The subject is a place which meets at least one of these criteria:
 * has been visited at least 750,000 times.
 * has been used for an official ROBLOX event.
 * has been the subject of an entire post on the official ROBLOX blog.
 * The subject is a hat, a gear, a package, a head, a face or a group of such items that are related.

Only articles in the content namespaces (the content namespaces are the main namespace, the Catalog namespace, the Community namespace, and the Class namespace) need to follow the notability policy. If your article does not meet one of the above criteria, you should create it as a subpage of your user page and its name will be. If you create the article in a content namespaces nevertheless, it will be deleted. If the topic of your article does not meet the criteria but you think it deserves to be covered in the wiki, you should discuss it on the wiki discussion board.

Namespaces
This wiki has a few namespaces which are used to organize articles. The namespace is indicated by the words preceding the colon in the page title. Most articles are in the main namespace, which is the only namespace with no colon or word preceding it, but articles about some topics should be put in different namespaces instead:


 * articles about catalog items should be put in the Catalog namespace, like Catalog:Spec-Alpha Biograft Energy Sword;
 * articles about classes should be put in the Class namespace, like ;
 * articles about players and games should be put in the Community namespace, like Community:Clockwork and Community:Clockwork/Dodge the Teapots of Doom.

Infoboxes
Infoboxes are a big topic. They are panels put at the top right of articles that summarize key information about the article's subject. They are created using templates. Infoboxes are used for articles about catalog items, groups, players, games, events, badges, and classes; you can find the complete list of infobox templates in Category:Infoboxes. The template pages contain documentation on using the template to add an infobox to the article.