QBWiki talk:Notability guidelines
This is a placeholder page for a discussion of potential notability guidelines that will govern all articles in the QBWiki. Suggestions welcome.
Some potential guiding ideas (feedback welcome):
- All schools, active and inactive, that competed in at least one non-league quizbowl tournament (i.e. not a league, but rather a tournament) may have a wiki entry detailing their results. Each school page should ideally have whether or not the school is still active and ideally up-to-date contact information.
- Individual person pages must have either won a major national quizbowl award (Carper Award, Cooper Award, etc.), finished in the top 5 individually at a national championship tournament, and/or have otherwise contributed significantly to the game of quizbowl (I know the last part is a bit murkier, so suggestions welcome). Individual pages should focus on quizbowl-related activities as much as possible and provide some sense of what else the player might have done that simple statistics cannot capture (notable games or buzzes, team-building work, circuit-building work, etc.)
- Categories should be fairly small and help readers navigate; the current "Active Player in X Year" categories are too broad to be workable, IMHO.
Other ideas welcome. -Chris Chiego
As I suggested in the forums thread, I think that notability standards for individual people should be significantly looser. For instance, I think that active participation in the community, work on any writing or editing projects, or having any other things of note (an attributed story, say) should be sufficient for an article. This is likely still sufficient to prevent a fair bit of the clutter that would come from making an article for literally everyone who has played.
When people stumble across a player they don't know much about, I would like their first instinct to be to go to the wiki and look up a quick synopsis of their career and perhaps an amusing anecdote or two.
It would help to have more amusing anecdotes to include for many of these pages; right now, even some of the more-extensive individual player pages lack that kind of qualitative detail. Or at least, basic updates since 2013.
At this point, I'm going to start going through and flagging individual player pages that have no other links to anything else in the wiki except for their teams (i.e. nothing but "X is a player on Y college team. X played at Z high school." from 2012 or something). This will be a new category called "Deletion" so people can easily see the pages I'm marking all at once; see Category:Deletion. I won't delete anything yet, but I want to start doing some clean-up here. -Chris Chiego