Wookieepedia:Notability of fan projects

Articles on fan projects, such as websites, fan clubs, fan activities, fan films, or fan fiction are allowed on Wookieepedia so long as they are sufficiently notable. Articles on non-notable fan projects will be deleted.

The following criteria may be used to determine notability:


 * 1) Content: A website must have substantial content. A fan project must be non-trivial (i.e. a completed fan film, a completed video game mod, etc.)
 * If the Wookieepedia article is almost as long as the text on the site, this is a bad sign.
 * 1) Longevity: A fan group, project, or website should have been in operation for at least six consecutive months.
 * A website does not need to have spent six months at the same URL.
 * This guideline could be ignored for subjects that pass other criteria by a substantial margin, such as fan films which were completed in less than six months.
 * 1) Media coverage: A fan project which has received at least national coverage in mainstream media can have its article kept, even if it fails to pass longevity or content criteria.
 * Another Hope was a short-lived phenomenon, but it made it to National Public Radio.
 * 1) Domain name: having a domain name is not proof of notability, since a domain name is relatively easy to acquire. On the other hand, a fansite which shares its domain with other sites may still be notable.  Most sites hosted for free on sites such as Geocities, LiveJournal, or MySpace, however, are probably not notable.
 * 2) Message boards: Due to the ease of setting up message boards, and the multitude of message boards with very few members, a message board must have more than 100 active users to be notable.
 * 3) Number of articles: Fan sites and other fan projects should get one and only one article. If an article on a fansite can be merged with another article, it probably should.
 * For instance, an author or notable fan's personal blogs could simply be discussed in a section of her article or listed in external links. Club Jade, for example, would not go in the article for its main operator and contributor, because it's more than just her personal blog (it's also a small fan club, a fan fiction archive, etc.)  Her SW.com blog, though, would be kept as an external link.
 * Websites as big as TheForce.Net can have more than one article: not so much because they are more important, but because the Jedi Council Forums, the Star Wars Technical Commentaries, and some of the other projects it hosts would be obviously notable even if hosted on their own website.
 * 1) List of fan sites is a place for any web site that doesn't qualify for a full article, but does qualify as a genuine fan site.