User talk:Horace Cope

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This is an encyclopedia. There is no chance at all that a clan, faction, team or the like from a roleplaying game of any sort is likely to pass our rules on notability of subjects and meet the requirement to have multiple, third-party reliable sources. Please stop recreating the article. Thanks. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 12:32, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Redvers. I'm new to the whole Wikipedia thing. Apologies if my recreating the page was annoying, I had an outbreak of trying to run before I could walk.

In terms of third party citations, what would constitute meeting the requirements? I tried including links to various websites, articles in magazines etc. Interestingly, there already are a number of groups from live roleplaying games on wikipedia. I can provide links to numerous articles in the live action roleplaying press etc. What do I need to do to be able to create this page to your satisfaction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Horace Cope (talk • contribs)


 * All groups/clans/bands/families/factions etc need to have already achieved substantial third-party coverage from reliable sources in order to claim notability (this is Wikipedia's definition of notability here). Reliable sources (defined here) must not be written by the group in question themselves and must not be from blogs or user-generated material. Most importantly, any source must be substantially about the group in question, rather than just mentioning them or listing them. It's very, very unlikely that your faction will qualify, but if you want to try anyway, you can create the article in your userspace - User:Horace Cope/Teutonia - which is more protected from deletion. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 13:18, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Redvers! Thanks for getting back to me. Also, thanks for the tip of using userspace. I'll drop you a note when I've finished the article and get your opinion regarding sources etc. Thanks for the advice.