User:BudjarnLambeth/Notability guidelines: Difference between revisions

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== Likely USER page content ==

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.

=== Pages with significantly more automated template content than human-written content ===

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=== NEW pages about intervals, commas, or equal tunings ===

==== In general ====

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.

==== Commas ====

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.

==== Equal tunings ====

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:

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 == Likely USER page content ==
-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.
 === Pages with significantly more automated template content than human-written content ===
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 === NEW pages about intervals, commas, or equal tunings ===
+==== In general ====
+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.
+==== Commas ====
 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.
+==== Equal tunings ====
 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: