Fen Spinner Wiki:Notability

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Not all pen spinning content is notable enough for the wiki. Care should be taken to avoid polluting the site with content that isn't particularly useful or interesting to the hobby, such as listing every spinner that has ever existed (PDS alone once had 150,000+ members).

Guidelines

Individuals

Individual or "Notable Spinners" to refer to the category, should be spinners that are remembered for certain community contributions or feats. Below is a list of feats that instantly qualify a spinner as deserving of a "Notable Spinner" page:

  • Significant competitive spinning history
  • Appearance on television or the media
  • Historical contribution to the community
  • Significant teaching efforts
  • Founding a notable community
  • Creating a notable trick
  • Creating a popular mod
    • Note: Not all mods on the wiki are popular enough to warrant a page for the creator, it is worth consulting the wiki team first or leaving a question on the mod talk page.
  • Significant community effort

Legendary Spinners

There exists a special category "Legendary Spinners" that is reserved for the highest honors for their contributions to the hobby. This category is not to be assigned lightly, as it should only contain important individuals that had impacts that still continue to this day. Examples include:

  • Hideaki Kondoh - The grandfather of pen spinning and the first person to collect and compile tricks into a single field.
  • Kam - The developer of modern pen spinning, founder of English-language spinning through Pentix and UPSB, and strongest spinner in the world from the late 90s to the early 2000s.
  • Bonkura - Early developer and promoter of spinning in Japan, trick inventor and media representative who led the push for the initial wave of pen spinning in Japan.

It is wise to consult with the wiki team before applying the category to a person. It should also be noted that there are no instantly qualifying feats that make a "Legendary Spinner", though it is easy to mistake one of the following as being worth applying the category tag:

  • Winning a World Cup or World Tournament
  • Being on TV
  • Inventing a popular trick
  • Being a popular spinner

The category should not be applied simply because of one of the previous reasons. If the category is misused it may become necessary to implement a voting system among the more experienced editors on whether a spinner deserves the status or not.

Communities

A public-facing pen spinning community always meets notability guidelines, so long as the community lasted at least a few months with several members. This includes smaller boards such as PSUK and, of course, Fen Spinner.

Teams and Private Communities

Private communities are considered to be "Teams" as they cannot be accurately differentiated, even if they brand themselves as such. A team is a private group of spinners that chooses to compete or produce content together, but does not have any method of allowing new members to qualify according to equal guidelines. A consequence of this means that 'private communities' such as LPSA are to instead be considered and tagged as teams instead.

Teams are not automatically notable, and need to have demonstrated historical significance, competitive history or notable feats in some way. Teams that consistently produce content over long periods of time and participate in the community are notable, teams that don't participate or have little participation before stagnating or disbanding are not considered notable.

Mods

So long as a mod meets all of the following criteria it is considered worth having a page written about it:

  • It is decently constructed
  • It has been made or desired by more than just the creator.

These guidelines can be avoided in the following cases:

  • The mod is extremely well known and famous
  • The mod is built to an exceptionally high standard
  • The mod appeared in the media.