User talk:Shannamartini

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 * Hi Shannamartini! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 17:36, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, Shannamartini, 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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 * Hi Shannamartini! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 03:22, Saturday, August 17, 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Page deletion
Hi, I saw that your page was deleted - apparently you only had words that said that the page was forthcoming. You should only create a live page when the article is complete, as otherwise it will be deleted like what happened here.

Now that said, I wanted to give you a bit of caution: it looks like you're creating a page about a book, so make sure that the page is only about the book itself. It should not be about the benefits of gaming in general. I'm concerned that almost all of your sources look to be very general about gaming benefits and only 1-2 of the sources are actually about the book. Of those, one is a Forbes Contributor post. Contributor pages on Forbes aren't seen as reliable sources unless you can show where the person is routinely seen as an authority on the topic, particularly by academic and scholarly sources. The link is also an interview so it would be seen as a primary source by most Wikipedia editors. If you're looking to edit on the topic of the benefits of video games, the main article has a section about this in specific that you could add to.

What you should be looking for are things like reviews, coverage, and discussion of the book, as well as things by the author about the process of creating the book. For example, this review by one of the writers on GeekDad would be usable as a reliable source. Sources like this and this are short but generally usable. To be honest, I'm a little concerned that there weren't a whole lot of sources out there for the book, so I'm not sure if this will have enough coverage in independent and reliable sources to be considered notable. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:50, 21 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Thankyou for your critiques. I appreciate your advice, and yes, there were hardly any reviews over the book itself besides the few TED talks I found. Other than that, I was following the guidelines for my project when it came to summarizing the parts. Thanks again. Shannamartini (talk) 13:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Is there anyway you could return the article to its original state temporarily for me to copy and save my original version of it to my personal files? Then you can return it to the shorter updated version? Shannamartini (talk) 13:57, 7 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! I posted the version to your sandbox, but it looks like the sandbox version was the same thing that had been posted live. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:02, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:PowerPlayCoverSmall.jpg
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