The Sims Wiki:Custom content policy

Draft

This page is still a draft. The policy is still being discussed at Forum:Merging with the Customized Sims Wiki.

The Custom content namespace on The Sims Wiki is used to document notable pieces of custom content created by The Sims community, such as lots, houses, Sims, neighborhoods, worlds, and mods. All pages on custom content must follow this policy.

NB: The Sims Wiki is not a file sharing or file hosting platform, and does not host any custom content. It only seeks to document and provide information on existing pieces of custom content.

Notability

See also: The Sims Wiki:Notability Policy

There are hundreds of thousands of custom content available for The Sims series, ranging from simple clothes and furniture to houses and community lots, or even game changing mods and entire ready-to-play neighborhoods. Although The Sims Wiki contains a lot of information, it is not an indiscriminate collection of information, meaning that not everything goes. Custom content listed on the wiki needs to have attained a certain level of notability for inclusion.

Notability is usually decided on a case by case basis through community discussion and consensus building. There are a few basic guidelines as to what constitutes as a notable piece of custom content:

Verifiability

Verifiability means that other users can look up the information provided on the wiki on other sources, such as another website. In the main article namespace where regular wiki articles reside, this is possible through people owning copies of The Sims and being able to verify that the information on the wiki matches what is found in-game. For custom content, this is possible through people downloading copies of the custom content to verify the information on the wiki is accurate.

As such, all custom content must be publicly accessible. A publicly accessible piece of custom content is one that is:

• ...hosted on a proper custom content sharing site. These include The Exchange, Mod The Sims, The Sims Resource, among others. These websites list custom content in a user-friendly format, providing creators the ability to upload screenshots and write descriptions on the custom content, and will provide a download link that other users can use to obtain the custom content in question. Some websites may also offer additional social features such as the ability to message creators and leave comments. Custom content that is not obtainable through these websites, or is only obtainable from file hosting websites such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or even Sim File Share, are not considered notable enough to warrant their own article on The Sims Wiki.