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From May 2025 onwards, the Xenharmonic Wiki is introducing new '''notability guidelines'''.  

== Banned content ==

=== Objectively false claims ===

What IS allowed though, are comparisons, as long as they are accurate. (So you CAN say "the Indonesian slendro scale is ''similar to'' 5edo.")

* Content which promotes or risks promoting hatred or discrimination against any group of people

* Content which is in any way obscene, lewd or scatological

* Anything which borders on, or hints at, any of the above

=== What to do if you see banned content ===

If you see banned content in a page, delete that content off of the page. If the entire page falls under the umbrella of banned content, put [[:Template:Delete]] at the top of the page.

 

== Likely USER page content ==

If the page is about a very important topic (see below sections for elaboration) that is a priority for the wiki to cover, then include [[:Template:Stub]] at the BOTTOM of the page. This will tell future authors to write more content for your page, and once it is fleshed out, it can be moved to main space. The aforementioned MOS exception does not preclude requiring this template wherever the manual content is sparse.

The basic principle here is to have '''good rationale'''. Think about ''why'' you are creating this page; in other words, why the concept you are writing a page for needs to have its own article. Did you come across this while playing with a scale or exploring compositional possibilities, or otherwise while investigating structures theoretically? If so, then there is some reason or context that the idea exists in; we therefore urge you to describe that reason when you are writing the page. Additionally, question whether it is really necessary to create a page or if what you have the interest in talking about would belong as a mention somewhere else. The below criteria are soft guidelines in general, but delineate what the good reasons are for a page to be made.

=== Intervals ===

If the page is about '''an interval''' that is fairly simple (as a heuristic: if it has a numerator and denominator each 2 digits or less or [[Wilson height]] below 40), then it can be a main space page, as long as it has at least a full paragraph of human-written content, rather than consisting mostly of just templates.

If the page is about '''a [[comma]]''' such that at least one of the following is true: tempering it out has very low [[badness]] and sensible structural interpretation in a ''non-absurd'' [[subgroup]], it is incidental to multiple temperaments elsewhere documented on the wiki, or it has [[essentially tempered chords]] in a reasonable odd-limit, then it can be a main space page - provided that its particular xenharmonic value is explained and as long as it has at least a full paragraph of human-written content, rather than consisting mostly of just templates.

If the page is about '''an [[equal-step tuning|equal tuning]] (ET)''', proceed with caution. You need to be able to write at least a paragraph of manual, human-written content, which must not consist of simple, superficial observations that can be ''easily obtained'' by someone just looking at tables already provided on the ET page (for instance "this EDO performs well in the 2.9.15.11.17.23 subgroup" is easily readable from the table of harmonics generally provided right below such a statement, and is therefore considered trivial to derive), and must in some way ''point uniquely'' to that specific ET ("this EDO tempers out [comma]" or "this EDO supports [temperament]" ''on their own'' do not specify why that particular ET is important as a tuning thereof). If you can do all of that, it can be a main space page, otherwise, it should be a user page. But note also the following:

* All pages for [[EDO]]s and [[EDT]]s below a few hundred have already been created, implying the remainder of ET pages either have hundreds or thousands of steps (putting a greater burden on notability that way), or have obscure [[equave]]s (which need further justification for considering in the first place).  

* We require that any new pages on EDOs, EDTs, etc. to be linked to from the main page "EDO", "EDT", etc. itself; these links have to be inserted manually for EDOs over 1000 and EDTs over 300. Consider the fact that the EDO page is semi-protected into the calculation.

== MAIN space content requiring extra caution ==

 

If you ever use a word or name that you invented yourself, '''mark it with [[:Template:Idiosyncratic]]'''.