Forum:CT Archive/Fansite webmasters

Fansite webmasters are currently accepted as "notable fans" on Wookieepedia. But are they really? I think it's time to modify our Notability of fan projects policy to exclude these people. Consider: Does creating and maintaining a website make a person a notable fan?

Note that this would only affect articles on people who are recognized purely because they run fan sites (such as Eric Przybylski). Articles on people like Curtis Saxton would still be kept, because they're recognized for other work.

My proposed addition:
 * Webmasters: If a person is recognized purely for creating and/or maintaining a Star Wars fan site, he is not considered notable enough to warrant his own article.

Please do not add any further options to this consensus track. --Imperialles 15:02, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

In favor of addition

 * 1) Very much so. --Imperialles 14:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Darth Culator (Talk) 14:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) JMAS 14:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Sorry, Riff and WhiteBoy. (You should make it "he or she" when it becomes policy, though.)&mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 15:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Well, duh. Unit 8311 18:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) About damn time. &mdash;Jaymach Ral'Tir (talk) 19:00, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) I've long thought we should do it this way. Havac 19:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Yes. -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 21:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 7) This will forestall people insisting they be added. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 21:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 8) Din&#39;s Fire 997 00:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Would this mean people who have been acknowledged in official works, like Tracy Duncan (tuckerized as Dunc T'racen) or Wayne Poe (brief cameo as the Atrisian god Wapoe), would still get pages, despite the fact that their main contribution is still their webmaster work? -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 14:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. --Imperialles 14:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)