Forum:Updating policies, guidelines and the wiki/Notable

This policy details Halopedia's policies on notability, which is loosely based off Wikipedia's notability policy.

Overview
Notability determines whether a topic merits its own article. Article topics are required to be notable, or "worthy of notice." It is important to note that a notability determination does not necessarily depend on things like fame, importance, or the popularity of a topic—although those may enhance the acceptability of a subject that meets the guidelines explained below:

Criteria
Keeping in mind that all articles must conform with the policy on verifiability to reliable sources, and mere description of the information by official sources are not sufficient toy establish notability; they may be notable based on meeting one of the following criteria:


 * The information has all the necessary quality that can be included in articles and that it has significant coverage to such extent that it is more than a trivial mention. Furthermore, the information has reliable and reputable sources that are independent of the subject.
 * The information has all the necessary quality of having its own article. There is a foreseeable certainty that the information will see sufficient and future growth. If otherwise, the information must be capable of presenting itself concisely in a section of an article than in its own article. If the information is essentially a copy of a Wikipedia entry, a simple interwiki link to that Wikipedia will suffice and that information should be kept in a form of a summary.

Comments
I didn't want to break up such a lovely-written post, so I'm using this. Anyway, what about those minor Jiralhanae we encounter in Halo: Contact Harvest? Most of those are just mentions as being in the pack; same goes for most of the Jiralhanae mentioned in that one Evolutions story. My idea is that we merge the articles on minor Jiralhanae into a larger on covering their respective packs. My reasoning is quite simple - the information on each page regarding a pack member is very similar to that of other articles covering the same pack - it's all the same apart from how the character died (if even mentioned).--  Fore  run  ner '' 09:06, 25 May 2012 (EDT)


 * Why not? While they are all notable of having their own article, it's obviously much more better to follow what you've proposed. — subtank   18:05, 25 May 2012 (EDT)

What's that going to mean for the "Known Brutes" template, though? Are they now going to become like "Brutes of Maccabeus' pack" or "Brutes of Parabum's pack" instead? Tuckerscreator (stalk ) 18:14, 25 May 2012 (EDT)


 * There are still a few notable Jiralhanae able to have their own pages. We can split it up into sections like on the SPARTAN Armor navbar, which Maccabeus' and Parabum's packs getting their own sections due to the number of Jiralhanae mentioned.--  Fore  run  ner '' 07:52, 26 May 2012 (EDT)