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Hi guys,
I've made an article of The Mana World in Chinese. While I'm writing the page, I found that much information of the article in other lanuages are outdated. If you can speak Español, Français, Italiano or Português, Please help updating the page

P.S. How can I create the article in English? It's deleted because of notability and lack of references.

alexander1006 wrote:Hi guys,
I've made an article of The Mana World in Chinese. While I'm writing the page, I found that much information of the article in other lanuages are outdated. If you can speak Español, Français, Italiano or Português, Please help updating the page

P.S. How can I create the article in English? It's deleted because of notability and lack of references.

Oh... I see. BTW, spanish page looks complete, but should be created the English page first with official content to be followed in translated pages. Then I can update into spanish.

Before creating the english wikipage please read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... Mana_World

In 2008 (in my opinion the 'best' time of TMW) the article got deleted because it was not 'notable' enough. I highly doubt it is notable now... Make sure you have references first that this game is notable, and only after that create the page. Otherwise the page will be deleted again...

The attempt in 2008 was not the only one. There were several tries to add an article about TMW to the English Wikipedia. They all failed due to lack of reputable and independent sources. When you want to write an article for the English Wikipedia, it is not enough to write what you know about the topic. You need to write what others publish about the topic, where primary sources (so anything from themanaworld.org) do not count because they are not independent. When you can not reference any reputable and independent sources, your article will get deleted because you can not prove to the Wikipedia community that the topic is notable enough.

But when you would like to write a wiki article about TMW, you could contribute to the TMW article on TVTropes. On TVTropes there is no such thing as notability.

The University of Zagreb's Faculty for Organization and Informatics AI lab is using TMW as a base for their 'ModelMMORPG' project (for which they received a grant). Here is a link to the project's webpage. At the bottom you can find link to a couple of presentation's they've put together, some of which describe TMW.

This one in particular goes into quite a bit of detail about TMW as a project. This should fulfill the requirements of being independent and reputable.

Rawng wrote:The University of Zagreb's Faculty for Organization and Informatics AI lab is using TMW as a base for their 'ModelMMORPG' project (for which they received a grant). Here is a link to the project's webpage. At the bottom you can find link to a couple of presentation's they've put together, some of which describe TMW.

This one in particular goes into quite a bit of detail about TMW as a project. This should fulfill the requirements of being independent and reputable.

Oh, that's that project from mschatten, nice. Thanks for the links
It's a bit outdated now, e.g. the continents, maps and starting area but meh, it's a nice source to mention.

I would love to see a more detailed article and related subtroopes of TMW in tvtropes. Is anyone working on tvtropes article ? I would love to work on it.

noog wrote:I would love to see a more detailed article and related subtroopes of TMW in tvtropes. Is anyone working on tvtropes article ? I would love to work on it.

According to the edit history there wasn't a content-related contribution for years, so feel free to edit.

lol, this is funny. Wikipedia mention TMW in its own article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_op ... ideo_games and it is only game in list without wikipedia page.