Team Fortress Wiki:Archived discussions/Talk:Bazaar.tf

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How-To

Tried to make it more wiki-like and less "come use us and here's how" --Eoj Nawoh 06:49, 6 February 2013 (PST)

Deletion

I'm not convinced that this page needs to exist, since (1)It's not notable, (2)It still reads like a how-to, and (3)There's little to no useful information here. Users have had over a week to change this, but since nobody has, I'm assuming that point 1 applies here.

I'll give this page another day or two, and then delete it. --User LordKelvin Signature.png LordKelvin 08:33, 17 February 2013 (PST)

Notability

I believe that this page should be allowed another chance.

Full disclaimer: I am a Bazaar "Affiliate". All this means is that my name on Bazaar is blue and that my community has a banner on Bazaar's communities page.

In the interest of being accurate and informative, the wiki's admins should not allow their personal feelings to interfere. bazaar.tf is certainly popular enough to be considered "notable", regardless of how the site's staff may or may not have acted. The fact that this page was previously very poorly-written should not bar it from existing in the future, after being rewritten of course. bazaar.tf is still very actively maintained and developed. A reddit post about a browser game developed by bazaar.tf reached the front page of /r/tf2.

If the main reason for barring the creation of a new bazaar.tf wiki page is the fact that in the past it was merely used for self-promotion, then the problem is not with Bazaar itself. The problem was with whoever edited the page previously. Instead, allow someone else to create a wiki page. -- Dr. McKay (talk) 14:26, 14 January 2014 (PST)

Just looking at the Alexa rankings, Bazaar is ranked slightly above TF2 Warehouse, and significantly above TF2 Trading Post, both of which are listed as notable community trading websites. The 3-month trend shows the rank has improved by about 90% in that time period, so in regards to popularity there isn't much to be debated. The about page also shows information about popularity. As I write this, 154k total users, 400 online, 640k trades, and 118k automated trade offers.
I hate to bring up the old argument that seemed to have shut this page down in the first place, but I'm not exactly sure how this kind of site could fix prices (if you know, please explain!). From what I can tell, current item prices are gathered from backpack.tf automatically, with the source cited alongside of the price, and again on the about page. As far as individual trade prices goes, that's up to the users.
The contributions to automated trading by the site's developer(s) is quite significant in itself, and I believe the exact same bot-base has been adopted by backpack.tf[1]. If a site has reached the point where it's affecting and contributing to the largest community sites, I certainly think it should have its own page. Rannmann (talk) 15:08, 14 January 2014 (PST)
I take it nobody with authority cares to respond to this? Dr. McKay (talk) 18:09, 12 May 2014 (PDT)