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(Hi! Just a heads up. This is meant for editors wondering what the deletion reason was for faction/player pages. If this doesn't describe you it likely won't be of interest to you.)

(tl;dr: articles about players or groups of players don't serve a useful purpose and as such unnecessarily strain miraheze's storage infrastructure)

1) Prone to becoming obsolete; players inevitably stop actively playing, effectively rendering these kinds of articles usless. This becomes impossible to indefinitely maintain as only administrators can delete pages, and the same principle as for players applies. Factions are groups of player so this directly extends to them aswell. This excess data puts unnecessary strain on miraheze's infrastructure.

2) NOT: metainformational/organization articles (eg. Improving the wiki. These are of use to contributors) OR historical information (eg. April fools events. These are of use to end users who wish to learn about events they did not experience) OR content explicitly contained within the game (eg. Resources. There are of use to players who require information about a specific mechanic or item) OR a guide or tutorial (These are useful to players who require help with the game). The commonality between all of these is that they are related to the game or wiki and are of practical use to all end users (a good rule of thumb is to imagine yourself as a contributor or new player. If this article is potentially useful to you it likely belongs on the wiki). While these types of articles are related to the game, they are only really serve the same player or group of players who created them; they do not serve all end users. As such we can say that "they don't serve a useful purpose".

Articles which cover unofficial or unintended content (such as this one!) should ALWAYS explicitly be marked as such by using Template:CommunityWarning.

As this wiki is by the users for the users, if there is a large enough push by the users and or editiors, we could compromise on a solution like organizing these types of articles into a single list so the community can self-regulate and prune bad additions without potentially wiki-disrupting permissions which griefers could use to cause catastrophic damage. To let me know about any ideas or complaints regarding this please let me know by leaving your comment on the talk page of Improving the wiki.