Please help me understand the policy on tokens

I would appreciate some guidance on the matter of which sorts of tokens are allowed on Numista and which are not. I have searched the site and the best answer I have so far is in this thread:

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic34922.html

It says that the following items will be removed:
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• Pressed pennies​
  
• Religious medallions​
  
• Contemporary fakes​
  
• Modern fake coins​
  
• Arcade tokens​
  
• Medallions​
  
• Play tokens (metal and plastic)​
  
• Military orders​
  

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When I look in the token section, I see there are a large number of items in a section called "To Delete", which broadly correspond to this list. However, there is another whole section for "Play tokens" from the UK, including many plastic coins.

Furthermore, I notice that there are many arcade tokens in several of the sections.

I have quite a lot of different arcade tokens that I have collected over decades and I would like to add them. However, I don't know whether or not they are allowed. Is there a canonical guide somewhere on the site that explains what tokens are acceptable? If not, can we have one?

I also want to emphasise that this post is not about arguing which tokens should be acceptable - I just want to know what the rule is so that I don't spend time entering data only to have it disallowed or deleted.

The site really hasn't stabilized yet on that issue. There are some people here who absolutely hate tokens. Some people like them.

I think the root of the problem is organization. People who add a lot of the tokens don't take the time to properly catalog them. Look at this token: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces45074.html, it has a really bad scan and isn't cropped very well. Whoever added it didn't even bother to transcribe the text on the token. A lot of the tokens were like this at one point. These types of poor entries shouldn't be added.

Here is another token example: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42338.html, this one has been properly transcribed and has catalog references. It has a good image, too.

Another issue is how well a token fits into the Numista catalog. Most everyone agrees that pressed or elongated pennies are not really items that should be added to the catalog. Fakes are not something that should be in the catalog either. There is an odd line in there some where.

Bank tokens were used as currency: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces38388.html
Notgeld were used as currency: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7548.html
Merchant tokens were used as currency: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces77663.html
Tax tokens were issued by local governments and have a pseudo-currency status: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20568.html
A border area is Municipal (Canada) or Centennial Tokens (USA). They go by other names is other countries but these were usually issued to commemorate or celebrate an important local event. While they could be redeemed, they were usually used as a souvenir: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces73606.html

Those above are generally items most people see as acceptable tokens as these were used as currency or circulated.

Below the line are the other things. Arcade tokens are mass produced and generally hard to attribute, or so generic that many different places will use the same token. Religious tokens are so numerous and similar it would be difficult to distinguish them. Plus they were not intended to be used as currency. Medallions and medals are also in the group.

Now that all that is said, if you can a well organized arcade token collection, and can improve or add new entries, I would welcome it. But strange crap happens here all the time, so....