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: --[[User:BudjarnLambeth|BudjarnLambeth]] ([[User talk:BudjarnLambeth|talk]]) 06:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
: --[[User:BudjarnLambeth|BudjarnLambeth]] ([[User talk:BudjarnLambeth|talk]]) 06:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
== Minor variations, overly niche pages ==
For the most part, I think these notability guidelines are pretty good; however, you have:
* "Minor variations: Systems that differ only trivially from existing systems. For example, 17 equal divisions of 8/3, which is just 12edo with a slight octave stretch."
This would tend to knock out more than you might want to knock out.  For instance, although 17ed8/3 and 19ed3/1 are minor variations on 12edo, each of these is part of a series that has members that deviate considerably more from their nearest EDO.  So they not only merit a mention, but should be able to keep their own articles to avoid interrupting the #ed8/3 and #ed3/1 series.
Related to this, you have:
* "High complexity: Temperaments of high complexity or EDOs with extremely high divisions (e.g. 31132edo), unless accompanied by a clear explanation of its utility or theoretical significance. This also includes temperaments and commas in impractical subgroups (e.g. 2.43.83)."
The guideline about things being too niche due to high complexity would knock out pages for high EDOs and complicated(*) ratios that have not found use yet — these should probably be left alone, maybe after adding something like a {{tlx|niche}} tag.
(*)We should be wary of using "complex" with respect to ratios unless we really mean it, since this has a specific mathematical meaning that is not generally what is intended here.
Added:  [[User:Lucius Chiaraviglio|Lucius Chiaraviglio]] ([[User talk:Lucius Chiaraviglio|talk]]) 07:30, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
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