Thread:GD Protostar/@comment-31868138-20190531093033/@comment-25406802-20190603233704

As a person who has been consistently checking the validity of articles, I find myself being slightly confused in the context of this debate. From what I understand, there is a chatter on whether or not pages that have to deal with levels and players as attempt to give them attention to stay.

Personally, I've never been in favor of pages made in the wiki as an attempt for a user to promote their own level and say, "Hey, I made a detailed article, so therefore you must check me out, I gave all the details" as I find the need of promoting oneself to be unnecessary. I can see the argument, however, that this domain's primary purpose is to promote levels that are not of official content and promote the players that are among the game as well.

I do not like self-made articles that regard oneself or their level because the idea of trying to use the wiki as a way to promote oneself and solely as that, especially when the level is not rated and can't prove of much significance. For a site where there are 800 pages, an article which advertises a work of someone else without actually being rated while being practically unknown and unheard of will get buried in the wiki and get forgotten by mostly anyone else except for the person who made the page. It would sit among the rest of pages without much attention since there is no actual relevancy in comparison with other levels, and will result in the lack of views and perhaps edits, which would likely come from a singular person. Thus, it can be seen as a burden to the whole wiki, where only one person will contribute to a page which has less of a meaning compared to others.

At the same time, we've also been lenient about level pages and users, having pages such as Ridonculous Guy existing even though practically nobody knows this player to this day. If they do, then it would be a very unknown but tiny percentage that would know the user. They haven't done much notable to the game, but they still stand. Additionally, there are levels such as UNation and Green World. UNation was an extreme demon collab made by the members of the GD Wiki, who succeeded in making an extreme demon despite it being far from the quality needed to have it rated. It does not possess much relevancy to the entirety of the game, yet it holds close members from the GD Wiki who find significance on this as it's memorable and thus don't want to see it deleted. The same applies to Green World, as it was made by a group of GD Wiki users. They obviously want these pages to stay, and we've given the two level articles that exception.

I'm not sure how to add onto this, but I feel the message I'm making is pretty clear that either or could work out, and if we delete user pages and levels because they are "unnecessary", we have made exceptions, and we have to take note of the dedication the user of interest had in making the page, regardless of it being relevant or not, popular or not.