User blog comment:SpiderRolling/Wiki Clean-Up?: Ex-Fangames, Inspired By, and Never Released Games/@comment-25029787-20171027181308

I agree that a line should be drawn on what constitutes a page on the wiki as far as different types of ex-fangames. Regarding to-be-released pages, I was personally more lenient with pages such as Einsamkeit or Yume Nyaki (the latter of which has now seen a release) due to what I saw as a relative lack of activity in the fanbase's development (meaning I believed if the pages were deleted, it may discourage the creator and lead to the project being abandoned; I am unsure if it would have the same gravity now that fangame development has been kickstarted by the DDJ). The Uboachan article raised a valid point about the wiki itself having a gravitational pull on the development process to the point that some developers have worked on their pages before a game was even fleshed out, a process that has occurred multiple times.

Like that of CrystalCreation's suggestion, I created the Abandoned/Unreleased Fangames category as a catch-all tag for projects created by developers who disappeared or became inactive in the development of the game, the tag being the only category on such pages. Additionally, the Work-in-progress Fangames category was meant to have the same function of being the only tag on pages in order to separate them from proper fangames.

In short, I support heavier moderation on what qualifies for a fangame/ex-fangame (and therefore what qualifies for a page on this site) and agree that fangames currently in development and fangames that failed to reach beyond development should be separated from playable fangames.

(apologies for the text wall by the way, here's hoping I didn't go typing in circles haha)