Forum:Starting pages for websites/wikis

I just a few minutes ago deleted a page created to advertise a wiki on the Wikia network. The wiki is Sims-related so it does not fall under the 'irrelevant' banner by which we've denied affiliate requests in the past. However, I still feel I was justified in deleting it because:


 * The wiki is not officially affiliated with us
 * Even if the wiki were affiliated, it is not large enough and therefore notable enough to warrant getting a page here.

I want to stress that we do have pages regarding sites which we're not affiliated with; The Sims Resource and ModTheSims both come to mind here. We do not have pages on our wiki regarding affiliated wikis, such as the Spore Wiki, MySims Wiki, etc. but for our purposes I'd like to treat a wiki in the same way we'd treat an external site. That said, this matter returns to one of notoriety. The wiki which was advertised here is not well-established and probably has no editors other than its founder. Even if we were officially affiliated with it, I would say we should not have a page regarding it on our wiki.

The reason I bring this all up is to wonder whether we should establish some sort of guideline or policy regarding how these situations are dealt with in future, how we determine notoriety, how we handle the advertisement of other sites on the wiki, or whether we want to be in the business of writing these sorts of articles at all.

I look forward to your feedback. --  LiR speak ~ read 18:18, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Given that most, if not all, of our affiliates seem to be Wikia-based wikis, I'd say writing a page dedicated to the said site would be more tedious and redundant than merely linking to the sites and let them do the talking, especially if our dedicated pages were lacking in related content anyway. Despite not being affiliated with them, I can understand why we have pages for TSR and MTS as they're notable in their own right. All in all it does seem to be a mixed bag and I'm personally not too sure how to approach this but I do think for the sake of consistency that something concrete is established surrounding this. 18:30, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know about creating a page of a wiki's affiliation, but I'm sure we need to have a guideline for our affiliations. This will also prevent any random sites or wikis that attempt to affiliate with us, which, as you said, actually have no activities and the only contributors are the founders (The Sims Wiki:Language Portal might be a bit different topic). I'm curious how affiliations work in other wikis though...  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  06:43, December 9, 2012 (UTC)