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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.

 

== Usually USER page content ==

If the page is about a very important topic (see below 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.

If one is unsure about meeting the below criteria, these should be '''user pages'''.

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 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 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]]'''.

 

 

 

 

 

If you are documenting an [[extension]] to a base temperament, especially in the [[11-limit]] and higher where multiple primes may dictate conflicting tuning tendencies, do so only if the extension:

* is the best available extension to the given [[subgroup]]/[[prime limit|limit]] in a specific tuning subrange of the base temperament, or

* is particularly simple compared to other extensions to the same subgroup, or

* splits the base temperament's [[generator]]s in a nontrivial way and is better than other extensions to do the same by either of the above criteria.

Otherwise, only include temperaments which have low [[badness]] in a non-absurd, non-arbitrary [[subgroup]], or are restrictions of such to lower [[prime limits]]. It is of course also a requirement to include all the standard temperament data - subgroup, [[comma]]s, [[mapping]], and at least one [[optimal tuning]], and a strong recommendation that at least one sentence of rationale (for why this temperament was documented or why this extension may be chosen) be provided as well.

Only include commas which are [[tempered out]] by at least one low-badness [[temperament]] in a non-absurd, non-arbitrary subgroup, AND which are important for defining that temperament (not incidental).