User talk:DontFeedSQUID

Welcome!
Hello, DontFeedSQUID, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Your sandbox
You sandbox is here: User:DontFeedSQUID/sandbox. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Response
Hi, I wanted to respond on your talk page about this.

Ultimately it's really, really hard to justify individual pages for game characters as most will not have received the type of coverage necessary to show where they're independently notable from the game, nor enough of this type of sourcing. What's needed are things like articles that focus specifically on the character, being ranked in notable lists, and the like. Essentially, they need to have coverage akin to that of Liquid and Solid Snake at the very least. Coverage that discusses how to best use the character in the game or that they've received new skins doesn't count, as that's only really discussing them in relation to the game itself. Lists that only rank the characters in a specific game aren't really usable either. If they were ranking all of the characters in a series then that may be usable depending on who put out the list, the amount of coverage, and so on, but even then that is kind of iffy. The lists that are intended to be used to establish notability are things put out by GamePro or similar like "Best Characters of all time", "Best female characters", and other lists that review all game characters from various countries, times, and even types of games or systems.

Now assuming that there's enough coverage, the article has to be written very specifically as well. It shouldn't be written like a game guide on how to play the character - it should instead have generally their concept and design, creation and development, their appearances in the game, and reception. From there you can expand to include other content like what is in the Mario article if you have enough coverage in reliable sources. I will note that in most cases there's really only enough to cover the basics I've listed.

It may be worthwhile to look into a new page on all of the characters that were in the Rainbow Six series, as that will likely be easier to justify, but I'd personally recommend expanding an existing article on a character. You can find some of them listed at Category:Start-Class fictional character articles and Category:Stub-Class fictional character articles, although be careful when choosing as there may be existing pages on characters that don't really merit their own articles. You can also check at Category:Video game characters by genre, although these won't list them by how developed the articles are. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:05, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Hello, I'm Ferret. An edit that you recently made to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want to practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! -- ferret (talk) 18:56, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi! It looks like this was done because of the sourcing you used, which was primary and a fan wiki. It looks like you need some secondary sourcing to justify a list on the page. It wouldn't be quite as much as you'd need for an independent page, though. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)