User talk:Buddhistbeeman

Please re-read the bit above the edit box which states:
 * Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles created as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see Spam.

Thank you. -- The Anome 22:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that you have written an article, cybernovela, about a genre that does not appear, by your own admission, to actually exist yet. Although the "first cybernovela", which you seem to have some interest in promoting, has not been released, you have written about cybernovelas in the plural: how can this be? -- The Anome 00:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not trying to promote anything through Wikipedia. You'll have to forgive me - it's my first time doing an entry, and I'm still trying to get a hang of everything. I suppose I'm having difficulty relating the exact definition of "cybernovela." It's a term that has been thrown around various Latin American TV production studios to refer an Internet-based video serial that has its roots in the telenovela genre. Although nothing has been produced within the genre, the term cybernovela is being used in production lexicon. Would it be more appropriate if I re-write the entry and state specifically that the cybernovela is a genre-in-progress, or do I need to wait until something has been produced within the genre?


 * Thanks for the reply, Buddhistbeeman, and welcome to Wikipedia. Yes, I think you should wait until this genre definitely exists: for example, if multiple mainstream sources such as newspaper reports start using the term to describe a genre, and more than one work exists that they describe as belonging to the genre, then an article would be entirely justified. The verifiability policy, no original research policy, and the list of what Wikipedia is not are probably the best places to start reading about Wikipedia's policies in this area.  -- The Anome 10:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

This is very helpful. Sorry to put you through all those nasty revisions. I'll wait until written evidence of the term exists before making my entry. Thanks again! -- Buddhistbeeman