User talk:Tyscorp

Greetings

I notice that you have recently attempted to add an article to Wikipedia. Thanks for contributing. We welcome everybody who wants to contribute.

However, it seems your article was deleted. The stated reason is that the article was promotional in nature, which is something of a thorny issue here these days due to numerous legal threats coming in to the offices of Those Who Run Wikipedia. We (and by "we" I mean "the admins who are responsible for sweeping the floors and watering the plants and washing the dishes here at Wikipedia, figuratively speaking") have been tasked with eliminating, to the best of our ability, any article which looks like it serves no purpose but to promote a commercial product or service. And while your intention with the StarGateWars article may not have been promotional, the article in question can reasonably be interpreted that way. Thus, it was deleted.

Based on the article you wrote (which I can see because I'm an admin), my two recommendations for you, if you want to try again, are:

Find some place where StarGateWars is referenced in an online newspaper or journal or something, and then include that as a link at the bottom of the page in an "==External link==" section. If CNN or the Boston Globe or the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or some other online newspaper or online magazine has ever mentioned StarGateWars, that gives the subject notability and verifiability, and will go a long way to preventing the article from being deleted.
Don't write a description of the game as though you were trying to tell someone else how to play it. From an encyclopedic perspective, the things we would be most interested in are things like:

Who created the game?
How is the game distributed?
Does the game feature any innovative technology which distinguishes it from other games of a similar nature?

And so on. Not so much a precis of "So, like, there are these different races you can play, and they each have special abilities, and the special ability of the first race is..." More of a meta-description of the game itself.

Anyhow, hope this helps. If you have any questions, you can either ask them here or ask them on my talk page.

All the best,
Ξxtreme Unction
15:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done, and done. --Ξxtreme Unction 15:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]