Project:Scope

This page outlines the scope of the Warwick Wiki by providing some rules of thumb on which topics should receive pages here. These guidelines are not strict, and you should feel free to deviate from them whenever doing so would make the wiki better.

General rules

If a topic meets all of the following criteria, it should probably receive a page on this wiki:

1. It is related to the University of Warwick in some way.
2. There is at least one reliable source providing information on the topic.
3. If the topic is a person, it is someone very notable.

Specific areas

Rooms and other spaces

• All teaching rooms and meeting rooms should receive a page. This includes, but is not limited to, all rooms listed on AV Services "Supported Areas page.
• Offices should receive pages if there is something to say about them (other than their location). This could be as simple as the current occupant.
• Any room with a proper name should receive a page.
• Any other notable room or space that has stuff to say about it (beyond its location) and at least one reliable source should receive a page.

Buildings

• In general, all buildings should receive pages.
• All buildings with internal layouts on the campus map should definitely have pages.
• Any building with a name on the campus map should probably have a pages.

People

• Extreme care should be taken over pages on living or recently deceased people. Only create an article on these if there is significant, relevant and notable information that is verifiable with very reliable sources.
  • People in high-up, somewhat public facing, positions should probably have pages. For example, Stuart Croft should receive a page, as should heads of departments. Random lecturers shouldn't, and students definitely shouldn't unless they're very, very notable.
  • Where possible and feasible, consent should be gained to create pages on living people that wouldn't be consider notable by Wikipedia.
• Avoid sharing personal details of living people, including dates of birth, birth places, addresses, sexual orientations and other similar things unless this is very relevant to the reason they deserve a page.
  • Some more leniancy can be taken over the personal details of those who are dead, but don't go overboard when it's not relevant.

Societies, clubs and other student groups

• Any SU-approved society or club should definitely have pages.
• Extremely large and notable non-SU-approved societies and group can also have pages, but they need reliable sources.

Events

This section refers to any "thing" that happened over a period of some length of time, not just organised or ticketed events.

• Pages should be created on any large scale events.
  • This includes festivals, large protests, occupations and other substantial gatherings.
  • Events should always be backed up by a reliable source, especially something like The Boar.
  • Pages generally shouldn't be created on recurring events where each installment doesn't have much unique information - instead create a single page on the entire series of events.
    • Something like WSAF has enough detail for individual articles on each installment. Something like an open day doesn't.
  • Pages generally shouldn't be created on standard society events or meetings.

Warwick "systems" and websites

• Pages can be created on any student-facing Warwick-related website or "system".
• For websites, these don't necessarily need to have sources from outside the website. Citing pages on that website is sufficient.

Warwick "lore"

This section refers to campus myths and legends, as well as gossip and wide-spread jokes.

• In general, only create pages on these topics when they're verifiable from a very reliable source - think of publications like The Boar, or webpages of established, SU-approved, societies.
• A single social media account is probably not reason enough to create a page on one of these topics.

Technical documentation

Many aspects of Warwick's tech is very poorly documented, making reliable sourcing hard. Please cite sources where possible, but don't let the lack of sources entirely stop you from creating pages documenting Warwick's tech. However, it is good to provide reasoning and evidence on the way stuff works where possible. {{Note}} is a good fit for doing this.

There's no page limit

The Warwick Wiki is a website, not a book, and text really doesn't take up much storage space. As such, the Warwick Wiki has no page limit and, in general, more pages will be better than less. There are times where consolidating information will be more useful, but don't let the guidelines on this page stop you from creating an article that you think is useful or interesting to those affiliated with Warwick.