Article Creation Guidelines

It is not required to read any of the guidelines before starting to edit or create pages on this wiki. No sanction can be given to an editor for not following a guideline, and informing a user of a policy is generally necessary before a sanction can be given.

Notability
The objective of this project is to build an encyclopedia that contains information of the greatest possible quality about topics related to Tropity. Since each article added to the wiki adds more maintenance and copy editing work, it is not possible, with a limited number of editors, to simultaneously have an unlimited number of articles and retain a good average article quality. A notability policy is necessary to establish what topics can be covered in articles on the wiki.

Articles should usually only be about one subject. Notability is determined by consensus: an article is considered notable if there is consensus that it is notable and considered not notable if there is consensus that it is not notable. Pages must also contain sufficient information about that topic. Pages where it is difficult to obtain accurate information may be deleted.

When there is no general agreement on a subject's notability, it is not considered notable and may not be covered in this wiki, unless it meets one of the criteria in the following table.

Inclusion criteria
Pages may be deleted when they do not fit the inclusion criteria. For pages in content namespaces, the inclusion criteria is determined by the notability policy. In other namespaces, different criteria apply:


 * Files may be deleted if they are not useful or relevant to the project or if they constitute a copyright violation.
 * User and blog pages may be deleted on the request of their author unless they contain content that is useful for the project.
 * Project pages may be deleted if they are not about the project or if they are obsolete.
 * Templates may be deleted if they are unused and unlikely to be used in the future.

In addition to the above criteria, any page may be deleted if there is community consensus to delete it. Administrators may delete pages for cleaning up or maintenance. Furthermore, instead of being deleted, pages that do not meet the inclusion criteria but have useful content can be moved, without leaving a redirect, to a subpage of the page of the user who created them or was the major contributor. Like other pages on this wiki, user pages are not owned by any user. A user may put pages about non-notable subjects in subpages as long as they are related to Tropity.