User talk:Overkillpro

Hal0rangers
A tag has been placed on Hal0rangers, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please affix the template  to the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, article #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Bubba hotep 23:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Tag removal warning
Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Bubba hotep 23:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from articles, as you did with Hal0rangers. It is considered vandalism. You may place on the page and make your case on the article's talk page if you oppose an article's speedy deletion. Thanks. -- Shadowlynk 23:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Halorangers
I saw your complaint about the speedy deletion, but I chose to honor the request to delete. I thought that I'd stop by your talk page to explain why. First, yes, we do have articles on other machinima series on Wikipedia. However, those series are generally well-established and meet our critera for notability of web content. This means that, for example, they've won award(s) (or have been repeatedly nominated for awards) or have been covered in multiple independent reliable sources. Articles that do not assert importance or significance (beyond a fuzzy notion of small group of fans, etc.) can be delerted at any time by an administrator, per item number 7, under Articles, of our criteria for speedy deletion.

Secondly, the arricle could be considered blatant advertising that would have to be fundamentally rewritten, given that it's not much more than a very short description and a link to the website.

The third problem was that the image that you used was actually from Red vs. Blue, and taken from here. You cannot release into the public domain what you didn't make in the first place, anyway. The screenshot also clearly derives from Halo 2, which is copyrighted by Microsoft. So no machinima derived from it can be released into the public domain.

Wikipedia in general discourages people from writing about themselves or topics in which they have very close relationships and/or ested interests. Given your username, it's pretty safe to assume that you're involved with tyhe production in some way. My suggestion to you would be to focus on making your machinima series the best that it can be. If it becomes notable enough, someone will notice and write an article about it. That's a much better route than trying to write n article yourself, against Wikipedia guidelines. After all, there's no encyclopedia entry if there's no machinima. Good luck in your endeavor. — TKD::Talk 03:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)