User talk:NotAracham

My opinion on the wiki request #27792
(the request in question, while I'm not a wiki creator or steward I think there's no problem with giving my opinion. Excuse my backseat moderating.)

First, the request contains a lot of text unrelated to the wiki. We can trim it down to figure out what kind of wiki they're requesting. The parts in red are the ones I consider unrelated, the parts in green are the ones relevant:

Hello. I'm Switzerland. I want you to create a wiki project for me - CountryPyramids Wiki This wiki will be about states, major cities, ordinary cities and so on. The wiki will have its own canons and non-canons, its own rules and administrators. I love Meta, you created one wiki for me. I love you very much and thank you. However, I will be very glad if you accept this request. And also, can you please answer quickly? Thank you in advance. While. And I also forgot that this wiki, which I ask for, can contact the Polandball wiki a little. However, I will repeat once again that my wiki will have its own rules, canons, non-canons, wiki friends and wiki enemies.

There's obviously a language barrier at play here, however, the following can be reasonably assumed about this request:
 * The wiki will cover various places in the world

The following I'm not so sure about:
 * The wiki will have its own canons and non-canons. This kinda makes me think this wiki is an alternative history wiki, with the "canons" being events that happened in the real world, and the "non-canons" being alternative history events.
 * This wiki (...) can contact the Polandball wiki a little. This presumably comes in response to Agent Isai's comment ("Is this related to "Countryballs"?"). I don't know what the *ball wikis are about, but I suppose they're either alternative history wikis or wikis memeing the country they're about, for example, being about exaggerated stereotypes of those countries. From this line, I assume the requester was inspired by the Polandball wikis to request this wiki. Given that it's unlikely to be content forks of an existing wiki, as they seem to be different in scope, there would presumably be no problems in that front.

In any case, this request is clearly unclear and should be. Some questions need to be asked to the requester:
 * Is this an alternative history wiki? Or is this a wiki about cities and events in those cities in the real world?
 * Will the wiki be mainly about living people? (if the wiki is about real cities, it's important to know if citizens of those cities are in the scope of the wiki)
 * Is this a Polandball-inspired wiki? Will the wiki be a fork of Polandball?

However, I doubt the requester will be able to give satisfactory answers due to the language barrier. OrangeStar (talk) 18:36, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The feedback is appreciated, thanks. There was no consensus on what to do with this request among the Wiki Creator group, I took the action to move it as purely an administrative step. :)
 * That said, great feedback, I'll take the initiative to see if we can get some closure on this request. --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 18:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem, glad to help. To be honest, I think the request will be rejected no matter what because of the barrier. I think it highlights the importance of having a lot of wiki creators that speak different languages. OrangeStar (talk) 19:06, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, it's a felt pain for sure, a role we always need more of in both different timezones and languages of expertise. --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 19:31, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

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Can you see now I'm update https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:RequestWikiQueue/28157

Gani (talk) 08:05, 27 November 2022 (UTC)