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)

Really, Lagg? Since this was being discussed on our forums I decided to drop by. I don't really care about if we have a Wiki page, but what I do care about baseless slander and hypocrisy.

Firstly, I am not blocked from the Wiki which is how I'm here. I'm only banned from the IRC for making one of your brethren upset entirely outside of the IRC and Wiki itself something, something, bad for the community.

Let's see:

>the site is shady

Why.

>has links to people who have been accused of (but not proven to be) partaking in market manipulation

This applies to every trading site ever. We don't condone it, either.

>there's evidence of the site being forced on various forums

Please enlighten me.

>The website has also been accused of taking code and resources without proper attribution

Perchance you are the one accusing in all of this?

If you're still going to fall back on notability without looking like a massive hypocrite, then go ahead and delete OPTF2 because that's even deader in the water than my project. Although I'm sure you'll tell me that it warrants an article for some obscure reason because it's open source or something. --Fiskie ^{Talk :: Contribs} 23:28, 3 November 2013 (PST)

I'd like to take this opportunity to warn you against making ad hominems in this discussion, particularly because of previous issues regarding your behavior in the past. I'm willing to listen to arguments regarding whether or not this deserves an article on the Wiki, but I won't tolerate any more of the same type of behavior that caused your previous departure. -- LordKelvin 23:41, 3 November 2013 (PST)

I'll answer in order. 1) It's shady for the reasons given directly after that statement. 2) That may be so but yours is the one I was contacted directly about. If you think you're being judged unfairly, put a delete marker on other trading sites citing that reason, because I don't want anything on this wiki documenting such a website. 3) 4chan (as LordKelvin said) and clearly this wiki given what the page initially looked like and the fact that you seemed to just materialize here shortly after this discussion started. On top of the fact that you or someone there finds it necessary to create a thread about it. 4) I'm not, but given your history I'm not willing to open more people up to your harassment. So believe what you must. (Edit: and just so this is clear, that "it didn't happen on this website, so it doesn't matter!" nonsense is part of why people are wary of you and your connection to this project) 5) Given that I'm the maintainer and actively doing just that, along with it having existed since shortly after TF2 did and spawned a project that is heavily used by this very wiki and hundreds of people according to pypi I'd have to disagree with that statement. But I digress, if you think it shouldn't be there feel free to put a deletion marker on it and it'll be given the same attention this page was. -- Lagg 23:59, 3 November 2013 (PST)

Linking price manipulation groups to one website (mine) is just confirmational bias at work. We don't condone it and I have never seen any Bazaar-exclusive price manipulation. If we saw it then we'd act upon it and hand out consequences. But we have never seen this happen.

4chan is where this project started and where it was originally funded. That's why it was "forced", per se, because the site owners (me and Accell) frequented there well before we even met and developed it, so we were basing the site around the community's ideals. Regardless I've stopped going to the general threads for over half a year now because they've declined in quality. Accell still goes there on occasion.

Clearly you only just want to spread FUD if you are going to spread accusations like I'm stealing code or promoting price manipulation especially if you don't have a single fact to back it up. I don't really care about this wiki anymore since I don't even play the game, but just stop with the slander and assumptions, yes? --Fiskie ^{Talk :: Contribs} 04:12, 4 November 2013 (PST)

I'm confused, you're saying you don't condone it and have never seen it. But just prior claimed that every trading site does it. Which is it because at this point I care less about this one project and more about the possibility that there are more instances of it and we're giving them pages to link to themselves on. If you don't want to put a delete marker there yourself you can mail any given staff member. Anyway, as for spreading FUD. Did I not explicitly say the accusations were unproven? Even considering that though, I'm inclined to trust the word of those who have helped report things before and have never given any reason for me to doubt them over the possibility of them lying (to what end?) and keeping a page up that already has issues with notability. Or ignoring this fact and going with your alternative theory, that it's just me accusing you, what reason would I possibly have to do that? Why would I risk my integrity and reputation to smear a project I don't even care about otherwise unless there was a specific reason to do so? You're really grasping at straws here, particularly if you have the gall to claim slander when your harassment of a reader was right out there in the open on a logged IRC channel along with your nigh-sociopathic justifications for it. Give me a break. -- Lagg 04:38, 4 November 2013 (PST)

When I said "we've never seen it" I mean "we've never seen Bazaar-exclusive price manipulation efforts" which was very heavily implied. I never said it's the trading sites that do it, either. Let me make this clearer: it's not the fault of any trading site, but the actions of individual users who have no solid affiliation. And if the accusations are unproven, stop parroting them like they're facts (oh we don't want to be linked to so and so because they do x, etc). I'm more concerned as to why people need to report non-existant internal affair issues about us to you in the first place, but I don't think I want to know. Just stop holding a grudge, yeah? --Fiskie ^{Talk :: Contribs} 05:27, 4 November 2013 (PST)

I can understand that unaffiliated people are doing such things and have no doubt that it happens. But the issue here is that you were pretty much named explicitly (to quote: "the bazaar.tf admins", am I wrong in assuming you are in that group?). As for "parroting", please don't try to weaken the accusations as if they were merely taken as fact immediately when seen. I refer back to my previous statement saying that I don't have any reason to doubt the word of these people particularly when they have helped before. Finally, this is not about a grudge (again, why would I or any related party have one? To what end would that serve?). This wiki is powered by the readers and editors. They care about the content of these pages as much as we do and honestly probably get just as annoyed when it's tarnished as the next guy. This is not by any means the first time or last time I've been contacted privately once a questionable article has went up. Whether because these people didn't want an account for personal reasons or were just lazy. This is a decision that was made months ago already and remade yesterday for purely pragmatic reasons. Notability is strained, connections questionable, site legitimacy challenged. These 3 things are strengthened by your own history, like it or not. -- Lagg 06:06, 4 November 2013 (PST)

I am pretty sure proof-less accusations or a personal dislike for the owner are not valid or objective arguments against censoring a site from the wiki. As for it being too small to be in this wiki, consider this: There are only two other well-known trade-matching services, only one auction service (which has been down since I first read the wiki article a few hours ago), and zero sites that provide automated trading with other people. There is no way that anyone can possibly argue that there are too many sites that provide the same service as bazaar.tf on this wiki. -Gimmechocolate (talk) 01:11, 4 November 2013 (PST)

Proofless is a rather strong word to use here given that there is plenty of it on this page as well as the accounts of staff and editors. As for dislike of the owner, neither I nor the rest of the staff hold a grudge against Fiskie beyond his past attitude. Make no mistake though, there is no right for a site to be put on this wiki. It's a privilege, and if it is decided by group consensus that the page shouldn't be here. It won't be, period. Censorship has nothing to do with it, it's a pragmatic choice based on existing evidence of notability (or lack thereof) and avoiding hassle in the future. Furthermore, considering the fact that I know of several sites that provide automated trading and have written and contributed to bot projects doing just that and are moderately widely deployed. I'm having trouble believing the veracity of the rest of your claims. -- Lagg 01:22, 4 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)