User talk:Burkr

Speedy deletion of "Planet Poker"

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Thank you. Porterjoh (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Planet Poker

Hi, do you have references other than the interview? Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot use personal interviews as sources per our verifiability policy and original research policy. JoshuaZ (talk) 15:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi:

Sorry, I'm rather new at all this... I can get Randy Blumer to email you with this information. I can also confirm it as I was (and still am) the senior systems engineer for Planet Poker when it first launched. Our interest in publishing this article is not to advertise Planet Poker. Its just that (I think) the early history of online poker is significant and should be published as many people would find it very interesting. Since the early history of online poker basically started with Planet Poker it is "difficult" to cite references other than the recollections of the people who were there. I hope to expand on the history of online poker by adding articles about other early cardrooms as well, if I can track down the people who started them

If I can come up with references to issues of Card Player magazine, Poker Europa magazine etc that support this article would that be sufficient to keep it around?

Such references would be much more helpful. However, if you are connected to this organization you may also want to check out our conflict of interest guideline. JoshuaZ (talk) 16:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you have any other questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page- User talk:JoshuaZ. Thanks! JoshuaZ (talk) 16:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, not sure. The Planet Poker article needs work but should reasonably stay in mainspace. It looks to me like a lot of the facts their can be sourced to independent sources which I'll try to do in more detail. You might want to put the other article in userspace (something like User:Burkr/Nameofarticle ) and work on it there. JoshuaZ (talk) 17:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:Burkr

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