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Reworded the document to reflect that we no longer accept or maintain articles about non-Pokémon glitches.
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Glitch City Wiki is a very specialized website that focuses on [[glitch]]es, mainly in the [[bp:Pokémon games|Pokémon series]] of video games.
 
As a [[wikipedia:wiki|wiki]], the Glitch City Wiki is open to edits by anyone. That said, there are guidelines concerning what it is accepted and what is not. Following are some rough guidelines as to what we look for in content.
 
== Relevance ==
First and foremost, articles here must be ''relevant'' to the topic of this wiki — Pokémon glitches. WhatIndeed, thisthe meansmajority isof thatarticles iton usuallythis haswiki toare beeither about Pokémonthe glitches butthemselves, mustor '''always'''their becommon aboutconsequences glitches([[glitch Pokémon]]/[[glitch item|item]]/[[:Category:Glitch things|...]], [[glitch technique]]s, etc.). However, as can be seen from the [[glitch]] page, the definition of "glitch" can be very vague, and may encompass any behavior of the game that a player may find "weird". As such, we also accept some articles on things that are not deemed "glitches" by our community, such as [[non-glitch exploit]]s like [[luck manipulation]], a list of [[List of text errors in the Pokémon games|text errors]], and ambiguous behaviors such as [[Slot machine behaviors (Generation I)]]. Articles that describe the inner workings of Pokémon games are helpful for glitch research, and thus are welcome.
 
We used to also accept articles about non-Pokémon glitches. However, we have decided that those articles were of questionable value and are not worth the trouble of managing them. As such, we no longer accept new articles about non-Pokémon glitches, and existing such articles will be deleted. Articles about general glitching concepts are still acceptable as long as they are written with a focus on their applications to Pokémon glitching.
We also tentatively accept articles about non-Pokémon glitches for a number of reasons:
* There may be connections between Pokémon glitches and non-Pokémon glitches. For example, [[Glitch Dimension]] is usually regarded as a Pokémon glitch, but can happen in non-Pokémon games too.
* Our core community of glitch researchers are generally also interested in non-Pokémon glitches.
* For many notable non-Pokémon series, we know of no other website that covers the niche of satisfactorily describing their glitches.
* Precedents (the Glitch City Laboratories Wiki accepted non-Pokémon glitches).
If you feel the need to add such an article, please follow the guideline for [[Glitch City Wiki:Non-Pokémon glitches|non-Pokémon glitch articles]].
 
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