(This is largely unchanged from its source page in Wikipedia, which is a general-purpose encyclopedia. Not all of this page is exactly applicable to the Genealogy Wikia, which has a mixture of encyclopedic information and "non-notable" information and opinions about and from ordinary people and their researchers.)
the Familypedia or "Project" namespace, for material about meta-subjects related to genealogy (example, Project:Charting ancestors);
the help namespace, which is used for pages intended to help contributors and/or readers to get the most out of their experience here (example Help:Contents);
the many redirect pages, which are used to re-route one page to another page automatically.
The standard definition used by the software at Wikipedia:Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard stubs (but in any case, many articles tagged as stubs are quite substantial) or stublists (lists templates with little or no content).
Quality of articles[]
Articles range greatly in quality, from featured articles to candidates for speedy deletion. Some articles are quite lengthy and rich in content while others are shorter (possibly stubs) and of lesser quality.