Forum:Staff pages notability

I've noticed a sudden influx in the amount of wiki pages being created concerning Nitrome staff. Some of these are the well known artists, programmers and musicians – people who have an ample amount of source material to sustain an article.

Then there are other members that I'm not sure qualify as Nitrome staff. Ones that come to mind are testers - they've only been credited testing one Nitrome game, maybe two? We have no idea who these people are - many of them don't have particularly notable, if any, sources to put together to make an article. The end result is a bunch of pages that remain stubs because they haven't received enough recognition on Nitrome to say anything about them at all.

Sure, it's possible that one of the testers for Icebreaker iOS might come back to test another Nitrome. And if they do become a notable asset to Nitrome Ltd then maybe it would later be a good time to create that page about them. But we can't count on all testers to turn out like that. Look at Craig Annal - he hasn't done anything for Nitrome since 2005.

I would like to motion a re-examination of the implied criteria we've been using for creating Nitrome staff pages. Instead of creating an article for the sake of their name being on a credits page:


 * The staff member has to have done a "notable amount" of work for Nitrome.
 * A sufficient amount of sources need to be publicly available.

Of course, these are rather arbitrary points that require some more analysing. Should "notable" be determined by the number of games the person has been associated with or if their role at Nitrome is "standard" (ie. programmers, artists, music)? I understand that there's only so much limited information concerning these staff, but wouldn't that provide all the more reason to merge these pages about the individuals/not have them at all?

(don't use the vote template - what are you supporting/opposing if a yes/no question wasn't asked?) 08:08, January 28, 2014 (UTC)