User talk:Callum Johnson

Legends of the Mafia
Currently this exciting game is in is development stage so all aspects of the game are under construction and we are going under some serious renovations of areas and undergoing constant improvement. We aim to move into the beta stage within the next few upcoming months. This means that only officially appointed beta testers will aim to seek out all the bugs (as there are bound to be a few we didn’t notice in the development stage) and also try and improve our game play to make this hopefully one of the best text-based crime games out there on the internet.

Legends of the mafia is a text based global crime syndicate game with many features and paths to follow. The aim of Legends of the mafia is to work your way up in the game, kill other players, rank to the highest rank to reach legend status, manage your own syndicate and own properties to generate income. You start of as a low rank and not in any syndicate. You can increase your place in the world by committing crimes like stealing cars, organised crime, pick pocketing other players, robbing banks and many other actions you can commit. You can also seek the security, benefits, and protection of a being part of a syndicate. Some of these benefits are that you can complete major crimes and special organised crimes within your syndicate organised by the syndicate boss. For faster ranking you can commit organized crimes in a group. When registered, members can talk to each other through private messaging, chat & forums. So will you be a bounty hunter who kills from the hit list for money? Or will you be one of the few powerful syndicate owners with endless money & bullets?

February 2009
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Welcome
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Notability of Legends of the Mafia
A tag has been placed on Legends of the Mafia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 11:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Legends of the Mafia
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Legends of the Mafia, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * there is no indication that this unreleased game is notable.

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"Why is the game not ntable?"
In order to be notable it needs to have "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." As your game is still under development, it is unlikely that there has been any reliable independent comment on it, and a Google search shows only 9 hits, including this article, blogs, youtube, and the like.

Wikipedia guidelines you need to read include Wikipedia is not for things made up one day - that's mainly written for people who come up with a spoof religion or a new drinking game, but much of the advice in it applies just as well to someone like you, who has a new, serious thing they are developing and would like to use Wikipedia to publicise it. See also Wikipedia is not a crystal ball - maybe your game will be famous one day, that's when it gets to have an article - and Conflict of Interest - people are discouraged from writing about themselves and their own businesses and games - if it's really notable somebody else will want to write about it..

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)