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RFC - The Scope of this Wiki
What is the scope of Puzzles Wiki?
Please express an opinion on these options below! A bolded Support, Oppose, or Neutral should be appended before writing further reasoning or discussion.
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Soni (talk) 03:31, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Option 1 : Hunt Puzzles and similar only
This option limit our primary scope to Puzzle Hunts and Hunt puzzles. Some future delineation may be required to decide where exactly this line falls, but by and large, the primary scope of the wiki would be Hunt Puzzles.
- Support - I think, especially in the wiki's youth, that having a focused subject matter and working to flesh out that content is more important than being inclusive of all puzzle types. I believe we should aim to make this wiki the de-facto place for puzzlehunt information, and once that goal is realized, broadening the scope of the wiki. Mononoko (talk) 03:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Option 2 : Inclusion of Escape Rooms
Hunt puzzles, plus Escape Rooms and similar.
Option 3 : Inclusion of Rally-yes
Hunt puzzles, plus Rally-yes and similar.
Option 4 : Treasure Hunts and ARGs
Hunt puzzles, plus also Treasure Hunts, Alternate Reality Games, and similar.
Option 5 : Stand-alone puzzles
Hunt puzzles, plus other standalone puzzles of all types.
Option 6 : All of the Above
- Support, with caveats (and also deprioritize until later) I think ultimately, this is probably the option that creates the least questions of "what is a X puzzle?". But for that matter, I would say that the individual notability criteria for the different types of puzzles has a fairly wide range. For instance, we can catalog as many individual hunt puzzles as we can, but maybe for treasure hunts/rallyes/ARG's, it might make sense to only have pages for the top-level franchise, or second-level "hunt"-equivalent (i.e. not one page per clue). Escape rooms could be per company, I suppose, since we probably couldn't get much sourced material for each room. There are also other types of less-hunty puzzles (e.g. logic puzzles could be per genres, plus it could be integrated with "hunt puzzles that use a certain genre" elements. Puzzle games (most likely at a game-level page, not a page per level), mechanical puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, I guess should be evaluated on notability.)--phenomist (talk) 03:40, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
