Forum:Discussing notability and establishing a notability policy

Hi,

Branching from this deletion nomination, I seriously think we need to discuss what content related to The Sims series constitutes as notable enough to feature on The Sims Wiki and establish a formal notability policy as we literally don't have one at all.

I can say from the offset that these things are obvious enough that not deeming them as notable is detrimental to the purpose of the wiki:
 * Games, expansions and stuff packs (e.g. The Sims 3, The Sims 3: Pets, The Sims 3: Town Life Stuff)
 * Worlds/neighborhoods (e.g. Pleasantview, Riverview, Old Town)
 * Canon Sims and families (e.g. Bella Goth, Cycl0n3 Sw0rd, Tara DeBateau, Goth family)
 * Objects (e.g. Television, Decorations)
 * General Simology (e.g. Life Stages, Traits, basically the whole of the Simology tab on the navigation bar)
 * Lots (e.g. 1 Free Street, Cemetery, Rabbit hole)
 * Basically anything major that I may have missed which is in-game
 * Notable real life figures related to the series (e.g. Will Wright, Electronic Arts, Maxis)

I may have missed some off but you can see it's a no-brainer to deem the major things as notable.

The real point of discussion comes at the existence of related content which is outside of the series, such as YouTube accounts, fan sites, people and mainly The Sims community, and whether or not we should cover them, which is what the deletion nomination of TheQuxxn brings up.

I do have an opinion on this but to maintain neutrality, I'll keep it to myself for now. Before we consider establishing this as a policy, I would like that this is discussed so that when we do get to that stage we have something to work around.

I'd like to emphasise that this is a very important discussion as it brings a fair bit of the content on this wiki into consideration and I would very much appreciate maximum community input where possible. I look forward to the development of this discussion. 12:38, December 21, 2012 (UTC)