Talk:Roblox

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• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.^[?]
• Per MOS:CAPTION, Images should have concise captions.^[?]
• As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers, dates shouldn't use ^th; for example, instead of (if such appeared in the article) using January 30^th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings, headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.^[?] Thinking of Roblox Studio
• Per criterion 2b of Wikipedia:Featured article criteria and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Headings and sections, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long – consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[?]
• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, then an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 08:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Also, a few of my suggestions:

• Remove citations from lead per WP:CITELEAD
• Try to make the article have a better flow. Some sentences are quite short and can easily be merged with other sentences.
• Expand the infobox: There are many more parameters that can be filled there; there isn't even a link to the website!
• External links should go above references (at least I believe)
• In § Development, it seems to read as more a timeline than an actual paragraph
• There are some sections that can easily be merged, for example § Players, is this really worth a whole section?
• This is just my opinion, but the article seems to go into a bit too much detail. All of the sets include a code that can be used to redeem virtual items.

Once again, just some of my opinions, I may be completely wrong! — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 09:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Berrely, I've implemented a couple of your suggestions, there is a bit of a problem with LEADCITE, since most of the content in the lead is not actually cited elsewhere in the article, we have to keep the citations there for now, or otherwise it would fail WP:V. I'm not entirely sure how to fix that at the moment, but expanding the "Development" section (which is definitely the weakest one IMO) to include a more general overview of the history of Roblox might help, and would also help with the other problems with that section. I am fairly sure, from looking at a few prominent articles, that References are supposed to be above external links though. Devonian Wombat (talk) 03:46, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Devonian Wombat, sorry for replying so late! Apologies I was viewing on mobile and got confused by the references, you are correct on that front. The reason there shouldn't be citations in the lead is that the lead is meant to relay information already said in the article, but this is not a huge problem. Good job on massively improving this article (really comparing the current article from when you first edited it and now is astounding)! — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 09:19, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

• I suggest splitting the Erik Cassel article from ROBLOX; Why on earth is Erik Cassel not a separate article? Erik is a vital person to ROBLOX's history, and articles like Alex Balfanz, Uplift Games or Adopt Me! have already been developed without any questioning from the community, so the Erik Cassel page should also be a separate one from ROBLOX. This does not deserve to be a redirect page. It's way more important than that. He also doesn't have a minor appearance like the developers mentioned in this, he literally was one of the creators of the game. MatEditzWiki (talk 15:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

  Notability is not inherited. Every topic is evaluated separately. For Erik Cassel to have an article, reliable secondary sourcing that meets WP:GNG must be provided. -- ferret (talk) 15:10, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

  Good source for Erik Cassel's huge involvement in Roblox - ^[1][2] I believe these two together at minimum are sufficient reliable secondary sources. Countless articles from large outlets mention and build upon this trove of information. Shredux (talk) 23:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Iraq's Ministry of Communications just banned Roblox over "security, social, and behavior risks" per Shafaq News.^[1] Tornadoboy7 (talk) 22:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

On November 18, Roblox introduced age checks to all users. Starting in January of 2026, all users must complete the verification process, or they will not be able to chat. Users will be placed into age groups (under nine, 9 to 12, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, 18 to 20 and 21+), which will prevent users from chatting with users outside their age group. (this is wip) DudeJay17 (talk) 15:07, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I will implement the age check update info into the article shortly. Unfortunately I've had a very hectic week and trying to figure out how to implement this information felt taxing up to a point. Still not entirely sure how to do it. But I'll figure it out. λ NegativeMP1 18:28, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

ok DudeJay17 (talk) 02:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

On this topic, requesting some criticism of the practice: Poor face estimations, potential of predators accessing inappropriate age groups, etc. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2026/01/05/roblox-face-scan-child-safety-features/87970290007/ Horizons 1 (talk) 00:34, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Roblox has received so much criticism for almost everything they've done that I find this one specific critique to be WP:FRINGE (only one source covering the criticism so far), as much as I and pretty much everyone else in the general community hates the update. Maybe this specific critique could be added to Child safety on Roblox? I will, however, use this source to provide expanded information on how the AI estimation software works and its potential margin of error. λ NegativeMP1 00:51, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

The redirect KreekCraft has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 12 § KreekCraft until a consensus is reached. Fram (talk) 09:05, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@NegativeMP1 Why does this topic deserve only 1 sentence when I find many reliable sources talking about this shutdown that happened.

shane (talk to me if you want!) 16:37, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

1. The shutdown had no long term consequences, so it's mostly irrelevant.
2. Roblox has had several outages before; one being longer than usual isn't extraordinary.
3. Just because it was in sources doesn't mean it can be in the article by default, per WP:VNOT.

Also you tried adding a sub-section dedicated to the outage, which inherently gives more attention to such a minor blip - if even a blip at all, in Roblox history. That is not due for such a minor event to get a section almost half of the length of the entire 2021-2025 history section. Your addition also read a bit like a rumor mill; if it's unclear whether or not the event caused the outage, then why is the section focused on it and lead readers to believe it did? λ NegativeMP1 16:43, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

@EditorShane3456: would you mind addressing my above comments rather than trying to reinstate the content anyways ? I also want to bring up WP:NOTNEWS. This left no long term consequences. And you haven't made a decent case for how it's important. Please do so rather can continuously trying to add it without communication. λ NegativeMP1 16:04, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

You might want to add info surrounding the classic face removal, its pretty big in the community and facing heavy backlash. Sarranidian (talk) 07:45, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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