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From May 2025 onwards, the Xenharmonic Wiki is introducing new '''notability guidelines'''.  
'''This is not actually Xen Wiki policy, it is only a hypothetical proposal by one user.'''
 
 
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The Xenharmonic Wiki is introducing new '''notability guidelines'''.  


These are less strict than Wikipedia's guidelines. The main goal of these guidelines is to stem the tide of dozens of very short new pages about topics of limited musical usefulness.
These are less strict than Wikipedia's guidelines. The main goal of these guidelines is to stem the tide of dozens of very short new pages about topics of limited musical usefulness.
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If the page is about '''an interval''' that meets AT LEAST ONE of the following criteria, 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 interval''' that meets AT LEAST ONE of the following criteria, 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''):
* Both its numerator and denominator are 2 digits or less
* Both its numerator and denominator are 2 digits or less
* It has a [[Wilson height]] of 20 or less
* It has a [[Wilson height]] of around 40 or less
* It is highly structurally important to some musical framework used by at least 2 people
* It is highly structurally important to some musical framework used by at least 2 people


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* tempering it out has low [[badness]] and sensible structural interpretation in a ''non-absurd'' [[subgroup]]
* tempering it out has low [[badness]] and sensible structural interpretation in a ''non-absurd'' [[subgroup]]
* it is incidental to multiple temperaments elsewhere documented on the wiki
* it is incidental to multiple temperaments elsewhere documented on the wiki
* it has [[essentially tempered chords]] in a reasonable odd-limit,
* it has [[essentially tempered chord]]s in a reasonable odd-limit,


Additionally, if it is to be a main space page, you MUST do the following:
Additionally, if it is to be a main space page, you MUST do the following: