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| − | In the early days of the [[Doom Wiki]], Wikipedia had a fair amount of related coverage, and several articles were used as bases for [[Special:PermaLink/7436|in-depth writeups]] here. Because the two share a [[wiki]] engine, [[mw | + | In the early days of the [[Doom Wiki]], Wikipedia had a fair amount of related coverage, and several articles were used as bases for [[Special:PermaLink/7436|in-depth writeups]] here. Because the two share a [[wiki]] engine, [[mw:What is MediaWiki?|MediaWiki]], "back office" components such as [[m:Help:A quick guide to templates|templates]] and help pages could often be imported as well. The nascent community, infused with {{wp|Geek|geek culture}} (thousands of articles documented {{wp|Tolkien's legendarium|Middle-earth}}, ''{{wp|The Simpsons}}'', and {{wp|Roadgeek|highway taxonomy}}), welcomed Doom content and encouraged power users to contribute to both sites. In a few cases, Wikipedia even disseminated news about fan projects. |
Since that time, Wikipedia has increasingly excluded video game content (and pop culture without representative celebrities, in general). Far stricter thresholds for crossover media coverage were imposed, and articles about minor public personages removed by corporate decree, under new, unilaterally established rules regarding editorial neutrality, notability (defined as references to a work in secondary, mainstream media sources), or personal privacy protection. By the letter of policy, many more Doom topics could in fact have articles if someone thoroughly scoured offline sources from the 1990s, such as magazines, newspapers, and trade journals. In practice, Doomers not only considered this onerous but were reluctant to clash with Wikipedia's voting bloc, who typically stonewall topics associated with teenagers unless {{wp|Wikipedia:Notability|procedurally forced into them}} by mainstream news reporting. For example, {{wp|Doom 3: BFG Edition|BFG Edition}} has a Wikipedia article because it received a modern online-heavy PR campaign with regular social media updates. [[DEU]], far more important to the overall narrative of Doom's impact, does not. The overall effect was to drive editors of Doom content toward the Doom Wiki (at that time hosted on [[Doom Wiki:Departure from Wikia|Wikicities]]), where such material could be considered as on-topic or not in accordance with rules established to properly serve the needs of the same community creating the material. | Since that time, Wikipedia has increasingly excluded video game content (and pop culture without representative celebrities, in general). Far stricter thresholds for crossover media coverage were imposed, and articles about minor public personages removed by corporate decree, under new, unilaterally established rules regarding editorial neutrality, notability (defined as references to a work in secondary, mainstream media sources), or personal privacy protection. By the letter of policy, many more Doom topics could in fact have articles if someone thoroughly scoured offline sources from the 1990s, such as magazines, newspapers, and trade journals. In practice, Doomers not only considered this onerous but were reluctant to clash with Wikipedia's voting bloc, who typically stonewall topics associated with teenagers unless {{wp|Wikipedia:Notability|procedurally forced into them}} by mainstream news reporting. For example, {{wp|Doom 3: BFG Edition|BFG Edition}} has a Wikipedia article because it received a modern online-heavy PR campaign with regular social media updates. [[DEU]], far more important to the overall narrative of Doom's impact, does not. The overall effect was to drive editors of Doom content toward the Doom Wiki (at that time hosted on [[Doom Wiki:Departure from Wikia|Wikicities]]), where such material could be considered as on-topic or not in accordance with rules established to properly serve the needs of the same community creating the material. | ||
