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So let's say I build some kind of application. And I create a website for it and a Twitter account and whatever else. Should there be a Wikipedia article for th
by gchucky 17y ago
So let's say I build some kind of application. And I create a website for it and a Twitter account and whatever else. Should there be a Wikipedia article for that? By having lower notability standards, there would be, as the article could use the sources I created. Seems to me that there shouldn't be an article for that, though, as that's really just a case of self-promotion and advertising. Besides, there really isn't anything particularly notable about the product itself, is there? It's just something I made on my own in a few days.
- gojomo 17y agoBy the 'true and useful' standard, yes. If someone wants to write it, why stop them? Whether your app dies in obscurity or explodes in popularity, if Wikipedia could collect true and useful info about it, why exert extra effort to exclude or erase that info? If there's a topic that only a dozen people in the world (currently) care about, but one or two of them are willing and able to write neutral, reference-style articles about that topic that will be of interest to the next dozen people, why exile that work elsehwere because of traditional standards of 'notability' based on the idea of limited staff time and print-page column-inches?