OCA talk:Salad

I'm happy to delete pages about non-notable rules that aren't Conway's Life, on the theory that this is the LifeWiki, and it would become a truly horrible messy pile of random information if we tried to turn it into the LifeAndEveryOtherCellularAutomatonInExistenceWiki. However, this rule has quite a few links to it that will break if I delete this page.

Maybe it's actually slightly notable? Or is there a summary page that all those pages could link to instead of this page, so that people would still find it easy to click on the link to look up what rule "Salad" is? And the same with Goat Flock and GlideLife... I agree that a whole separate page just to give the rulestring information is maybe a bit excessive. Dvgrn (talk) 19:23, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Agreed. Perhaps we could link to the rule's forum thread? It's worth noting that most of those pages already list the rulestring anyway, but that would allow people to learn more about it and why it's at least somewhat interesting without cluttering the wiki. Ian07 (talk) 19:44, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Maybe we could have a page with sections on interesting rules. This could allow new explored NT rules to be on the wiki, but not clutter it with new pages unless necessary. There could be small sections on known technology and patterns, like how the other 't-' rules are in the tlife article. AforAmpere (talk) 20:42, 25 March 2019 (UTC)