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Creating the Wikipedia page for orbital racing
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I don't think you can. It's not a particularly noteworthy concept, given that nobody does it, and I suspect the Wikipedia admins wouldn't want a page on it until and unless there's something interesting to say or there are a non-trivial number of people who want to know about it.
The fact that there isn't even a name for what you're describing seems to argue against it being noteworthy, as well. If anyone was interested in discussing it, a name would emerge pretty quickly by consensus.
So should I just assume when my game becomes popular, a Wikipedia page will be formed by someone else eventually for the specific game? Thanks for the help, I'm just pretty astonished that there's nothing about racing space ships in orbit.
Racing in orbit probably isn't generally that interesting, because there's an easily-calculated best way to get from any place to any other place and everyone would just do that. It would be like racing clocks
This isn't true if people can make custom maps and there are n-body physics. You could argue the same thing for almost any racing game depending on where you shift the goal post. The real-time piloting skill is what makes it racing.
See that's exactly why Slingshot Speeders is the first. Human piloting skill, n-body prediction (impossible beyond a certain extent) combined with the miniaturizing of gravity wells and their strength. Still counts as orbital racing using proper orbital mechanics.