Notability policy (Grandfathering)
• Verifiable info & citing
• Deletion
• Neutrality
• Article standards (No bloat)
• Documenting reception
• File & image names
• Page drafts
• No AI usage
• Personal info (Doxxing • Libel)
(Last updated on 2024-12-01 15:15 UTC.)
All articles must cover notable topics
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
It is not possible to maintain a good average article quality with an unlimited number of articles because each article added to the wiki requires maintenance and copy editing work and editors are a scarce resource. A notability policy is necessary to establish what topics can be covered in articles on the wiki.
Articles should usually only be about one topic. Notability is determined by consensus: a topic is considered notable if there is consensus that it is notable and not notable if there is consensus that it is not notable.
When there is no consensus on a subject's notability, it is not considered notable and may not be covered in this wiki, unless it meets one of the following criteria:
| Article | Notability criteria | |
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| User |
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| Experience |
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| Group |
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| Avatar items | Individual | For individual items in the avatar shop, under the Catalog namespace;
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| Item series | For groups of related avatar items (series articles);
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| Sales | For sale events regarding items in the avatar shop;
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| Events |
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| Contests |
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| Scripting API descended from Instance (in which case, it should have a page in the Class namespace) | ||
| Scripting API NOT descended from Instance e.g. data types should be put in the Main namespace. | ||
| Feature or functionality of the game engine, studio, or website | ||
account that are awarded through badges
Pages created without a way to verify notability (e.g. created without an infobox with the ID of the item/experience/user supplied) will be assumed to be non-notable and deleted immediately. All pages should contain a way to verify the notability upon creation.
The notability policy does not apply to pages that are not in content namespaces. Notability determines whether a topic can be suitable for a stand-alone article, not whether it can be covered in an article about a broader topic.
Grandfathering policy
While most notability criteria have only been expanded upon over time on this wiki, one criteria element that has changed sometimes are the numeric amounts noted in some notability criteria, such as place visits, group members, and asset sales. In every increase of these amounts thus far, all pages that met the previous minimums at the time of their creation that do not meet the updated policy have been grandfathered into the new policy, given that they are not stub articles. Therefore, they are not moved or deleted for not meeting a minimum if they were created at a point where they did meet a previous minimum.
When determining if a page has been grandfathered, the date of the first revision of the active page instance (note that this revision may have been deleted for some pages and you may have to ask an administrator to check) should be compared against the notability policy of the time of its creation. Since notability policies have mostly been only expanded upon over time with few old criteria being removed, the visits or member count are typically what needs to be verified if no other basis for notability seems apparent.
For a documented history of date ranges and their applicable numeric amounts to compare an article's contents as of its page creation to, please see the Notability numeric criteria history page.
All material must be verifiable
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
Readers and editors must be able to check the information in articles. The preferred way to achieve this is by supporting material in articles with inline citations, often placed at the end of a sentence or paragraph.
Inline citations are required for the following:
- Direct quotations
- Disputed or challenged statements
- Statements that are likely to be challenged
- Contentious material about players, experiences, and groups
For other material, citations are not required, but they are strongly recommended unless everyone agrees that the material is obvious.
The Roblox Wiki has a list of credible sources that should be preferred when supporting a statement. Sources that are credible and independent of the topic are preferred, but citing other sources is permitted when nothing better is available.
All material must be neutral
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
Material located in content namespaces must be written from a neutral point of view. When there are multiple views that have been published on a topic, they must be represented proportionately and without editorial bias. Opinions that are not verifiable can be presented by quoting significant proponents but they must not be presented as facts. If different sources make conflicting assertions, the assertions should be presented by quoting the sources instead of being presented as facts.
Pages will sometimes be deleted
The following is a guideline on the Roblox Wiki.
Pages may be deleted when they do not fit the inclusion criteria. For pages in content namespaces, the inclusion criteria is notability of the topic. In other namespaces, different criteria apply:
- Files may be deleted if they are not useful or relevant to the project or if they constitute a copyright violation.
- User and blog pages may be deleted on the request of their author unless they contain content that is useful for the project.
- Project pages may be deleted if they are not about the project or if they are obsolete.
- Templates may be deleted if they are unused and unlikely to be used in the future.
There are other cases in which a page may be deleted, including:
- Pages may be deleted if there is community consensus to delete it.
- Pages may be deleted by administrators for the purposes of cleanup or maintenance.
- User pages may be deleted if they contain errors, have formatting issues, or have not been edited recently.
- User pages may be deleted if the user in which they are under has had a prolonged period of inactivity (2+ years).
Pages that do meet the inclusion criteria but have useful content may be moved, without leaving a redirect, to a subpage of the user that created them or was the major contributor. Like other pages on this wiki, user pages are not owned by any user, but unmaintained user subpages may be subject to deletion.
If you believe a page has been deleted in error or would like to have a deleted page restored, contact a wiki staff member. Page restoration is not guaranteed, but a staff will usually be able to provide the page's last revision content if it was deleted for maintenance or cleanup purposes.
Articles should meet our style standards
The following is a guideline on the Roblox Wiki.
All articles should meet the base standards defined by our Manual of Style. An article with just one or two sentences is not sufficient and may be deleted.
Upon publishing, an article should:
- follow the standard article structure defined in our Manual of Style
- have an infobox that is fully filled, if an applicable infobox exists
- have a decent amount of information on the subject
- include a relevant image
Article bloat & excessive detail
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
The content of articles concerning a specific developer, experience, group, or other subject should not drill down to such a depth where it contains specific information that only a few avid fanatics may find useful or interesting. Many bloat issues may stem from a misunderstanding of what the Roblox Wiki is not.
Articles should avoid bloat, such as:
- Extremely trivial content
- e.g. a community member's favorite color
- Listicles
- Most articles on the Roblox Wiki are prose articles, and are not meant to devolve into trailing lists.
- e.g. An experience page containing a list of every single collectible, consumable item, or promotional code within an experience.
- Forms & procedures
- Group pages, in particular, are not to be recruitment tools and spiral into procedural drawl.
When adding detail to an article, a good question to ask may be "is this topic well known for this thing?"
- For example, in the experience, DOORS, it may be reasoned that a sensibly-lengthed list of key NPCs/entities may be desired.
Documenting reception of topics and incidents
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
In select cases, it may be necessary to document the "Reception" of topics. These names are preferred for sections discussing notable feedback or occurrences relating to a topic. Roblox Wiki does not document or allow "Criticism" sections of articles, as they tend to encourage lists of personal complaints to be added instead of actual notable information. In some extremely rare cases, it may be necessary to document "Incidents" and/or "Controversies" of topics, rather then just reception.
For these sections, any and all claims made are held to a high degree of scrutiny. All content in these sections must be verifiable. All instances of Reception, Incidents, and/or Controversies sections must have citations. Sections of these types that lack citations or lack verifiable sources for citations will be removed.
Subjective, generalized statements such as "the community thinks" or "players felt" are not allowed. Often, these statements are used to mask the opinions of one individual or a small minority as being notable enough to discuss on the page. As aforementioned, statements added to these sections must be met with verifiable sources.
Not every article type that is permitted to have a Reception, Incident or Controversy section needs one. Articles that meet the requirements for these sections should only have them if the general reception to the topic is notable. Reception should include citations that are demonstrably applicable to a large group of people. The opinions of an individual or the personal beliefs of one are not permitted for these sections.
- Community pages
- Articles about individual players or Groups on Roblox should never have a Reception section.
- The documentation of incidents and controversies surrounding a player or Group is permitted, but will be scrutinized thoroughly in fear of libel. Any documentation of such without citation meeting the wiki's standards, or citations that are not credible, will be removed.
- The documentation of this content is for verifiable content only. Roblox Wiki is not a place to make or promote allegations or claims.
- Experiences
- Articles about very notable experiences can document their Reception. However, any discussion of Reception must be verifiable. Masked opinions or complaints are not suitable for these articles, and will be promptly removed.
- Reception does not include a lack of personal appeal; no experience will meet every interest group, so this is not necessary nor appropriate to document. (e.g. a dress-up game may not personally interest you - and you may not see the appeal of the experience - but the next person might)
- Articles about experiences can document incidents and controversies in relation to the experience, but they must be inherently notable. Any incidents or controversies have a high requirement of citation.
- Events
- Event reception has high requirements of citation. If something for reception cannot be cited, it should not be added.
- Reception sections may not be added on articles about events until 3 months following the event's official conclusion.
- An event is concluded when its official event page is disabled, or, for events that may lack pages, when promotion of the event by Roblox ceases.
- Similarly to Experiences, Reception sections for Events should not include a lack of appeal and/or interest. Masked opinions or complaints are not suitable for these articles, and will be promptly removed.
Files must have descriptive names
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
All files uploaded to the wiki should have a descriptive name. Roblox's assigned name for the image, such as 4ed79d33416d50f085c76ba703f4e79b are considered non-descriptive and will be renamed or deleted.
Incomplete pages & drafts must be located in a userspace
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
You may create article drafts in your user space (i.e. User:user/Title), and then ask a wiki administrator or content moderator to move it for you when the page is finalized.
Article drafts not located in a user space, or otherwise articles deemed insufficiently complete, will be deleted or moved to the original editor's userspace.
Do not use AI to generate or help produce content for the wiki
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
The usage of large language models (LLMs; AI-generating text) along with creating AI-generated images for the purposes of creating content for Roblox Wiki is strictly prohibited, regardless of reason for its use.
Why?: There are a number of reasons that using AI is heavily inadvisable. As explained in detail at Wikipedia's policies on the usage of LLMs:
- AI-generated text often fabricates information, particularly information that sounds heavily convincing despite being false.
- LLMs can output fake or unreliable sources as well, including entirely fabricating detailed citations.
- AI models cannot inherently understand our manual of style.
- Due to often being trained on stolen and copyrighted text, LLMs can output that training text verbatim, resulting in the generated text being copyright infringement.
AI-generated text is unreliable and, even outside of this policy, tends to create content that violates many of Roblox Wiki's policies and guidelines.
Using AI generation tools to create images for the wiki is also disallowed, as it serves no viable purpose.
As a clarification, uploading or quoting content that was AI-generated and uploaded to the Roblox website for documenting the topic that uses that generated content is allowed. For instance, if an experience with an article on Roblox Wiki uses an AI-generated thumbnail, then that thumbnail can be uploaded to the wiki for usage on the article, as the thumbnail was not generated for Roblox Wiki.
If you find articles on the wiki that appear to be AI generated, or AI generated images that are unique to Roblox Wiki, please report it to a wiki administrator so that it can be reviewed or deleted.
Personal information about Robloxians may be restricted
The following is a policy on the Roblox Wiki.
As many Robloxians may not wish to have their real-life personal details associated with their Roblox accounts, some personal information may be barred from being included on a wiki page. Personal information should only be posted if it is generally known by the Roblox community.
Allowed personal details
Social media accounts (Facebook, X, TikTok, etc.) may be allowed to be posted if that account is directly linked on or linked to their Roblox profile page.
Posting of a player's real name, i.e. their first name and/or surname (last name) is not permitted under most circumstances. A player's real name may be allowed to be posted if the player has an established article on Wikipedia that contains their first name and/or surname and cites an allowed social media outlet. Exceptions may be allowed upon review from a wiki administrator.
The Roblox Wiki has abuse filters to prevent the additions of private and leaked information, including the real names of players; therefore, informing a wiki administrator of your proposed additions before publishing is encouraged to prevent conflicts with our automatic filters.
Personal information that was not intended to be shared may not be posted and is subject to removal by wiki staff, including leaked first names and/or surnames of players.
Real-life images of developers are subject to restrictions. Photos of developers will only be allowed if all of these requirements are met:
- The player is a legal adult (18 years or older)
- The photo was posted by the player on a public social media outlet that is linked with that player's Roblox account
- The image source is credited on the file page. If that photo is removed from the social media outlet, it shall be removed from the wiki.
Other personal details should be assumed to remain confidential unless allowed an exception from a wiki administrator (under certain situations). Posting of a player's physical location (such as state/provence/territory, or other location of higher precision e.g. city/locale) is not allowed under most circumstances, and is flatly prohibited without first consulting wiki staff.
Leaked confidential information & requesting redactions / removals
Posting of personal information that was clearly not intended to be shared will be removed. Editors should not be deliberately digging through the internet to find personal information about players to add to articles and/or leak.
Players who have a wiki page about themselves can request (through a verified account on the wiki, or using our modmail on our Discord) that certain personal information be redacted from articles. Please reach out to a wiki staff member to fully remove sensitive information about yourself– removed information will still be publicly accessible in our database otherwise. Certain pages may be removed upon request should the page not exceed medium-significance inclusion criteria.
Intentionally misleading & damaging information
The following is a Fandom policy enforced on the Roblox Wiki.
Posting of unverified or exceedingly libelous information is prohibited and is subject to removal by wiki staff. Users posting such information may be subjected to our block policy.
Controversial information may only be posted with multiple credible, concrete outside sources.
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