New article for TMW in WIKIPEDIA

[iceslice]

Yesterday some of us were talking in the town regarding MMORPG experiences & how to improve it.
I was li'l amazed not to see TMW/mana listed in Wikipedia. Freeyorp suggested us to try to add it.

First I tried this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Icesl ... Mana_World .
When I added it to the main article, it caused some error.

Link of the main article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mana_World

After a li'l twisting of the text it's working fine now. Still not sure if it's longevity gonna linger.

Guys who have experience of editing at least ten articles in Wikipedia are requested to join & enhance further.

[Crush]

Sorry, but I am afraid this article will be deleted soon.

This isn't the first try to bring TMW to wikipedia. All earlier attempts were deleted because of lack of notability and lack of independent sources and not much changed in this regard since the last attempt.

But another quite popular wiki where an article about TMW could bring some publicity is http://TVTropes.org, a wiki about all kinds of media focusing on the tropes used by them where "There Is No Such Thing As Notability".

Note that TVTropes is much MUCH different from Wikipedia, though. Getting familiar with its style, approach and vocabulary is recommended before starting an article.

[iceslice]

But I have placed necessary references/links at the bottom.

[iceslice]

And something is better than nothing.

[Len]

Crush is correct, we did have a very nice one that was deleted

[iceslice]

What was the reason ?
Was that neutral enough ?

[Crush]

Mostly lack of independent and reliable sources.

When there would be a detailed article about us in a respectable news source (print magazine, TV report, important(!) news website etc.) it would be something different. And anything written by us or copied from us does not count because it is not independent.

[CodyMartin]

A wikipedia article would be very nice.

The old deletion discussion can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... Mana_World

[iceslice]

I think, higher experienced Editors' touch will make the article better evaluated.

[Crush]

See, it's deleted. I told you so.

[iceslice]

Ya, but my custom or specialized link is still working.
It said, multiple edit attempts caused such.
Since I am not an authenticated person may be I shouldn't try to edit further. (?)

[Leela]

I checked the german wikipedia about TMW. The article was also deleted from exactly the reasons Crush said.
plus someone had written in the discussion that this game exists since january 09 ...

but to advertise it, it could be posted on gamer forums and so on. And I think this already happens