User talk:Macelarp

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Hello, Macelarp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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MACE on List of live action role-playing groups
Welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but at the moment it doesn't look like MACE is a good addition to List of live action role-playing groups. Wikipedia has a variety of standards for what we choose to include, including standards for notability. The key element is that anything we cover should have multiple third-party reliable sources covering it that we can then cite. While an imperfect system, it allows us to limit ourselves, if not to truth, at least to what we can verify (in the scholarly sense). Based on those standards, by rough consensus we are using these inclusion criteria to decide who to list on the List of live action role-playing groups. It doesn't look like MACE meets those guidelines, so I have removed it. If you can find third-party reliable sources covering MACE, please do re-add it, along with links to the third-party sources or enough bibliographic information that another editor could track the source down. I'm sorry this particular edit didn't work out. I understand how frustrating it can be for your first contribution to be rejected. I wish you better luck with your future edits! — Alan De Smet | Talk 07:16, 14 February 2012 (UTC)