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This page gives some rough guidelines intended to be used by Wikipedia editors to decide whether a role-playing game should or should not have an article on Wikipedia. While satisfying these notability guidelines generally indicates a book warrants an article, failing to satisfy them is not a criterion for speedy deletion.
These guidelines may be considered a specialized version of Wikipedia:Notability, applied to role-playing games, reflecting the following core Wikipedia policies:
- Wikipedia articles must not be vehicles for advertisement
- Verifiability
- Neutral point of view
- No original research
- Wikipedia is not a soapbox
- Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
- Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
Claims of notability must adhere to Wikipedia's policy on attribution; it is not enough to simply assert that a book meets a criterion without substantiating that claim with reliable sources.
"Notability" as used herein is not a reflection of a game's worth. A book may be brilliantly written, fascinating and topical, while still not being notable enough to ensure sufficient verifiable source material exists to create an article in an encyclopedia.