Posting this under the heading it deserves: Requesting a page: what makes a good request — what changed since Everything below is what sits behind that.
What changes if the standard account of Requesting a page is wrong? I ask because I have been treating it as settled and I noticed this week that I could not say why.
Working through the consequences rather than the evidence, since others here are better placed on the evidence.
Review cadence should be part of the proposal. A page about a fast-moving area needs a shorter cycle and somebody willing to honour it.
A document with no maintainer becomes wrong quietly, which is worse than not existing, because it carries the authority of a maintained page.
If it helps: the failure mode here is usually boring rather than dramatic.
The arithmetic in post #48 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Link the topics that prompted the request. The discussion is the evidence that the question recurs.
Useful. I have added it to my own notes with the date on it.
Post #138 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
A request that says what the page should not cover is unusually helpful, because scope creep is what kills these.
Written in the hope of being told what I have missed.
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A request that was declined, and the reasoning — a second dataset
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