User talk:JohnPrice56

Guilded Age
Hi John, thanks for your contributions with this article. With my message for the "proposed deletion" I mentioned notability, but accidentally linked to the Verifiability policy again, instead of our notability guidelines. You'll find them at WP:Notability.

The general guideline is that a topic requires significant coverage from reliable publications to be considered for inclusion. You added two sources. The first, Webcomic Overlook is a sizeable piece, but Wordpress blogs are self-published and not considered reliable. The second, WoW Insider, is reliable, but the coverage is trivial.

Do you know of any other sources? Marasmusine (talk) 18:42, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

With respect, I think that WoW Insider's coverage of the site on a weekly basis for close to two years might be considered to make its coverage non-trivial.

There's the TV Tropes Guilded Age page, which is sizeable and clearly the product of many hands, not a cursory page created by a single fan.

There are a handful of online interviews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJUkevPcNc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26naV0KC0M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyhriMUh7_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46YwxpRIYVo

The Comixtalk cover, already linked (that's another publication with multiple contributors, not just a Wordpress blog): http://comixtalk.com/chriswatkins/instances_and_awards

Finally, there's the fact that individual installments often get over 100 comments apiece, so you know the traffic must be significant.

I keep looking for the one source that'd serve as a "magic bullet," but I don't think any one of these is totally unassailable. Still, I'd recommend assessing them together: I think they do add up to something notable, especially for a relatively young feature. JohnPrice56 (talk) 05:23, 4 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking a look. Ah, well, openly editable sites such as TVTropes, and those with no editorial oversight like Youtube are exactly the kind of sources we don't base articles on (see WP:SPS). I'll search for a few more days, then I'll take this article to a deletion discussion. Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 09:12, 4 August 2011 (UTC)