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==Inclusionism and deletionism== | ==Inclusionism and deletionism== | ||
Content can be off-topic for the page in question, or for the entire wiki. [[Inclusionist]] and [[deletionist]] philosophies can come into play here. Some wikis, such as [[RationalWiki]], have debated whether to expand their mission and become general encyclopedias. (In the case of RationalWiki, this idea was rejected, but the inclusion criteria were left so loose as to still potentially encompass much of what a general encyclopedia would include.) Some general encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, continually debate how notable a subject must be in order to be worthy of inclusion; this was theoretically settled with the [[wikipedia:Project:Notability#General_notability_guideline]], but there is still some room for interpretation of what meets the criteria. | Content can be off-topic for the page in question, or for the entire wiki. [[Inclusionist]] and [[deletionist]] philosophies can come into play here. Some wikis, such as [[RationalWiki]], have debated whether to expand their mission and become general encyclopedias. (In the case of RationalWiki, this idea was rejected, but the inclusion criteria were left so loose as to still potentially encompass much of what a general encyclopedia would include.) Some general encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, continually debate how notable a subject must be in order to be worthy of inclusion; this was theoretically settled with the [[wikipedia:Project:Notability#General_notability_guideline]], but there is still some room for interpretation of what meets the criteria. | ||
When a wiki has no established policies concerning what is worthy of, and suitable for, inclusion, then those who add such content do so at their own risk, because there could be a purge of all that content as soon as the community decides to impose a new norm. This could also happen if the wiki has a relatively inclusionistic norm, and then the norm changes. | |||
==Spam== | ==Spam== | ||