User talk:TheWanderer2995

Let's Play[edit]

The proposed deletion is based on the question of whether this is a concept peculiar to a couple of websites, and thus not notable enough to justify an article. Internet phenomena which become notable get articles: things like FAQs and even lolcats; but I'm sure you'll acknowledge this is not in the same ballpark. See WP:WEB for some further discussion of the issues involved. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So what could I do it prove that this does deserve a small excerpt in the Wikipedia Library? TheWanderer2995 (talk) 16:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Provide solid evidence of notability, with references to reliable sources. A blog posting or a mention on Something Awful, obviously, is not a reliable source; an article in Wired or MacWorld would be. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's not really a mention on Something Awful, it's a whole community on Something Awful with its own forum on it but I'll see what I can do. Thanks. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 16:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All kinds of special interests have Yahoo! groups, forums, etc.; that doesn't make them notable. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wanderer. In response to your query, I would suggest removing all material that you researched yourself, and build the article only using information from independent, reliable sources, as Orange Mike suggested above. If you do have such sources, don't forget to cite them! Marasmusine (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When you say researched myself, do you mean that say if I posted references to many of the topics I mentioned in the article that would be good? Because all the data I posted is truth, it's just not cited well I guess. Thank you. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 17:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose what is really bothering me is that I can find many, many mentions of Let's Plays outside of Something Awful, however I can find no offical mention of it, such as an article in Joystiq or IGN. I wish to keep this article alive so how much is needed before it is no longer unsourced. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 18:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried again to make the article acceptable, if there is something that it still needs please inform me specifially how I can fix it. I feel that this can be an addition worthy of Wikipedia. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 19:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To keep the article, we need evidence that this topic's been substantially discussed in third-party venues. If there's not any such discussion, that's pretty much the definition of "not notable"! --Orange Mike | Talk 19:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly do you mean by third party. Because yes there is discussion about Let's Plays on areas of the internet that isn't on Something Awful and the like, the problem is that they are not an offical post on Wired or on IGN. But I'll assure you that while trying to find an article like that I have found thousands of discussions on a number of different forums and blogs. The topic is out there and discussed it's just that I figured that linking to a number of different blog and forum posts would be frowned upon. Take this as an example And that was just the first result to come up. There are plenty more. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 19:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever, I don't care anymore. Delete it right now if you want, I've already cleared out the informantion. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

August 2008[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Let's Play has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bblogspot\.com' (link(s): http://atecgames.blogspot.com/2008/03/idea-of-lets-play.html) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

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