User talk:Abce2/article

For the avoidance of doubt, I am reviewing this article. You say besides the refs, but that issue is not a "bolt on" extra for Wikipedia, it is an essential. If there are no references, what are you going to use for sources? You need sources of information to be able to write the article in the first place. All your current references are to Bakugan.com, which is good for "in-universe" information, but a Wikipedia article needs to be more than that. On a games wiki you could write an article that is entirely in-universe. For an encyclopedia, you need to explain its relevance to the real world, which means you need to find some independent reviews which discuss attributes in particular. Bakugan.com is not independent and it is not reliable for any information other than the in-universe stuff. Perhaps something that puts it in context with other games/shows, historical development of ideas, what is novel about this one, what was inherited from its predecessors - that sort of discussion. Remember, an acceptable article needs to establish that its subject is notable, in this case not just Bakugan, but Bakugan attributes needs to be notable. The context I found a bit baffling at first. You need to bear in mind that some of your readers (like me!) may never have heard of Bakugan up to the moment they read your article and you need to explain in the lede exactly what the article is about and where it fits in to the scheme of things. I had no idea this was anime until I followed the link to Bakugan, or that the show was a TV show. I also found the headings "Notable Anime Users" (by the way, see MOS:CAPS#Section headings) somewhat confusing. These are fictional characters, right? not real life players? It has certainly come a long way since I last looked at it but you still need something extra in there before it could be moved to mainspace. That's not to say that you could not get an article out of this. It certainly gets an awful lot of ghits, but you need to do the work going through them picking out the reliable (and useful) ones. As someone who is obviously interested in this, you may well know of some offline sources as well such as newspaper and magazine articles. SpinningSpark 10:55 am, 24 November 2009, Tuesday (20 days ago) (UTC−6) (Note:This comment was made by SpinningSpark, but not here. It was orginally made on my adoption talk page. I have moved it so it will help.)