Gazetteer Wiki:Advertising vs. Directing

Hello there! You're about to create a page for your wiki, and I bet you're excited! But before you do, know the differences between advertising and directing (creating a directory page to make your wiki discovered).

Advertising
Saying things like "This wiki is the best thing ever!" or "Check out my wiki. It's super cool!" is advertising. So is repeatedly bugging people on their talk pages to visit your wiki and spamming links to your wiki's page on this wiki or the link to the wiki itself. However, if the wiki claims to be "super cool" or "the best thing ever," stating that is not advertising. Just word it so that it's factual and doesn't appear to be a claim (for example, "(Insert wiki here) is a wiki that claims to be 'the best thing ever!'")

Directing
Directing is creating the necessary page for your wiki, following the formatting guidelines, and using neutral wording that does not give your wiki an advantage over other wikis. It is also recommending people to visit your wiki. There's a difference between recommending people to visit your wiki and bugging them to visit it. Recommending is telling them to visit your wiki once and not bugging them about it. Bugging them to visit your wiki is repeatedly telling them to visit it and not stopping even after they tell you to.