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WiKirby:Article creation policy
The following is a treatise on how and when and when not tocreate articles on WiKirby.
No new stubs
Readers and editors alike will come across severalred links on articles. In most circumstances, these links are red because the subject matter has yet to be broached by an editor who is confident enough to cover it fully. Under no circumstances should a new article be built just for the sake of existing. An article that only consists of one sentence is not one worth reading, and should not be created. Articles like this are candidates fordeletion, and should be either deleted or expanded as soon as possible.
Repetitive content and uniqueness principle
For the sake of brevity and not to artificially inflate the wiki's article count, articles should be mostly unique in the subjects they cover, and should not largely tread the same ground as other articles. As an example, the tag-team bossPon & Con have an article which discusses both of them along with other aspects of their boss fight. Given that neither Pon, Con, or their children are ever seen or interacted with separately, nor do any of them have enough unique information to justify separate pages for each, it is not appropriate to create a page for Pon, another for Con, etc. On the other hand,Nruff has a separate article due to appearing multiple times as a standalone enemy, and having enough unique information about it that doesn't fitNruff and Nelly.
On the other end of the spectrum, there may be subjects that are extremely similar in appearance, behavior, or both, but officially operate under different names and identities, and have enough information that could be present in an article for them separately. A good example of this are the pages forSusie,Parallel Susie, andPres. Parallel Susie. All three of these subjects look the same, have similar names, and fight in almost the exact same way, but since they are treated as separate entities, operate separately, and articles about them wouldn't have redundant information, they each get their own separate articles.
Expansion of sections into full articles
In some cases, an article may become so complex that it is necessary to split sections off into their own articles. In this case, the information in the original section should be ripped out and replaced with a shorter summary with a link to the new article inset, using the{{Main}} template. Generally speaking, expanded section articles should not in turn have their sections split into smaller articles, in order to prevent too much nesting from occurring.
For more information about this particular subject, see theArticle manipulation policy.
Defining new red links
When writing an article, an editor may be tempted to create internal links to pages that do not yet exist. When doing this, it is the editor's responsibility to be mindful of the following questions:
- Is the red link an official name for a subject? (More on naming standards here)
- Is the subject important enough to warrant its own article? (e.g. "Kirby" is an important article, but "Kirby's left cheek blush" is not)
- Is the subject something that is not covered at sufficient length in an article of a different title? (e.g. there is no article for the Boost Patch inKirby Air Ride because it is covered adequately on thePatch page)
In a perfect world, WiKirby would neither have nor need red links, because all information about everything would exist on the wiki. Despite this world not being perfect, an editor should carefully consider adding new red links, as this will only serve to exacerbate the imperfection. Sometimes this is necessary for the sake of memory and multi-tasking, but ideally, an editor would create a new page and link to it using a new link instead of creating a red link.
