Team Fortress Wiki:Archived discussions/Talk:Bazaar.tf

How-To

Tried to make it more wiki-like and less "come use us and here's how" --Eoj Nawoh 06:49, 6 February 2013 (PST)

Deletion

I'm not convinced that this page needs to exist, since (1)It's not notable, (2)It still reads like a how-to, and (3)There's little to no useful information here. Users have had over a week to change this, but since nobody has, I'm assuming that point 1 applies here.

I'll give this page another day or two, and then delete it. -- LordKelvin 08:33, 17 February 2013 (PST)

Why is bazaar.tf "not notable" enough to be on the wiki

The new baazaar.tf page seems to have been deleted for lack of notability, even though bazaar.tf has a userbase similar to tf2tp.com, has many features no other trading site listed on this wiki has and is getting constant updates. I don't understand why this medium sized website doesn't have the right to be on this wiki, but other similar sized websites such as: scrap.tf, tf2tp.com, and tf2auctions.com. Furthermore, why should a page loose its right to exist just because it was poorly written at one point? If this were the case the wiki wouldn't cover 90% of all content. The fancy spellbook wiki page has existed for 5 days so far, and yet it still is missing critical information such as the fact that you can get a page from the halloween milestone achievement, and that said achievement seems to be the only way of obtaining Tumidum pages. If the entire TF2 community, in which every active member should know about the new spellbook, can't even fill in the basic information in 5 days, how come the bazaar community is dismissed as "not notable" when they don't produce a polished page in about 10 days, especially when the page is way in the back of the wiki and few people in the community had any way of knowing of its existence? Edit: I would like to add a link to the about page of the website, showing active users, total users, etc., just to make sure everyone knows that this website isn't just some tiny website desperate for views: http://bazaar.tf/about Gimmechocolate (talk) 22:27, 3 November 2013 (PST)

That's what was decided by the staff when it was discussed and again when the page was recreated. There are issues with its notability because none of the staff who participated in the discussion had heard of it save a few scattered posts and the author has a history of throwing tantrums on the wiki and other attitude problems until he was eventually blocked. Furthermore the site is shady and has links to people who have been accused of (but not proven to be) partaking in market manipulation and there's evidence of the site being forced on various forums and this wiki will not be a part of that advertisement. The website has also been accused of taking code and resources without proper attribution. To answer your question about how this was deleted again so quickly: past abuse of the community sites pages for advertising has resulted in it being kept a close eye on by staff and editors alike. If you think that other community sites don't deserve a page either, feel free to mark it as such as well. Finally, usage statistics aren't relevant here. Especially when provided by the same website they're claimed to be taken from. -- Lagg 22:40, 3 November 2013 (PST)

The previous page was deleted because, as I said, it was more of a how-to rather than an actual page that documented the features of the site. The quality of the previous page was substandard, so it was deleted. Additionally, I believe the site was still in beta at the time, and we have policies against creating pages for incomplete products.

Different rules apply to community sites, as opposed to in-game content, I should think that would be obvious. I'm still not fully convinced that this site is notable enough to merit a page on the Wiki (mainly because the only place I've actually seen it mentioned is on 4chan, and even then only a very few times), and the Wiki should not be used as a form of advertisement in any case, otherwise every small TF2 site would demand to have its own page, which would create clutter. -- LordKelvin 22:28, 3 November 2013 (PST)