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:I'm inclined to say that we should liberalize the policies and open the door to more of this kind of content, but it does have some unanswered questions attached to it. -- [[User:LostInRiverview|LostInRiverview]] ([[User talk:LostInRiverview|talk]]) 04:02, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
::If the creator is notable enough that some biography can be written about them, then that could be an indicator as to whether or not they should have a page. Otherwise, if all they can show for is a lot of contributions, those pages could be redirected to the category page until enough is known about them.
::As for dealing with the creator themselves: Wikipedia does not delete or curate articles about living people based on what the subject of the article wants. Every effort is made to make sure that all statements about a person are properly sourced and are not libelous—this is fairly straightforward and common sense. I don't think we need to get too concerned about creators editing articles about themselves so long as they follow all of our other policies and edit appropriately. Despite what many Wikipedia editors think, having a conflict of interest doesn't mean you shouldn't edit at all; it just means you need to edit more carefully. If a user on the wiki claims to be the custom content creator and wants to add something to the article, ideally we should have a way of verifying that it is them before we accept them as a primary source of information (I don't think we need to have Wikipedia-level strictness on sources). They can provide a link to the wiki from their personal website or on a forum proving it is them. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 14:36, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
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