User talk:Lawodis
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[edit] Please stop signing articles
When leaving a post on a talk page or in a discussion, you should always sign it. When editing or creating an article, a signature should never be used. Articles (even if only one person has worked on them) are considered to be common property of the community, and no editor has ownership or authorship. Fan-1967 16:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What wikipedia is for and not for
Hi, a brief perusal of your contributions seems to indicate that you are using it to document your own Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This is not what wikipedia is for, please see WP:NOT. I've flagged your contributions to the admins and it's very likely they will all be deleted as non-notable and unencyclopedic. If you wish to document your D&D campaign online I would suggest you use a free webhost like geocities. Thanks. exolon 16:34, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] D&D campaign stuff
Howdy. Your name came up on the Administrators' Noticeboard; apparently you've been creating a lot of articles about your D&D campaigns. Listen... I like D&D some (much prefer GURPS, but that's another story), but I ask you to consider... when reading an encyclopedia, do you expect to find information about a random D&D campaign? In general, no, you don't. The problem is that none of the information you've submitted can be verified; no reliable sources have written about it. That might be because, in general, while your campaigns sound like they were cool, they weren't notable enough for inclusion. May I recommend a couple of places where that information would be allowed to stick around? There's PBWiki, which the Penny Arcade folks use for their mock-fantasy series. There's also Schtuff, which I used for my campaign materials. Finally, Wikia may work if you can muster up a buttload of people to collaboratively edit. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope you'll help us edit some of our more encyclopedia-appropriate articles. Captainktainer * Talk 16:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Your articles have all been moved to your namespace (see here). Please note that this is a temporary solution to help you move your material elsewhere, as this volume of material that is unrelated to wikipedia as a whole does not belong there, either. --InShaneee 17:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- I have listed the articles in your user space at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Lawodis/Saquimnidis. If you want to keep them, I'd suggest you copy them off Wikipedia, as they will probably get deleted from here in a few days, since Wikipedia is not a free webhost. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- I understand your disappointment, but I think what you missed in what you quoted was the requirement that the articles meet encyclopedic standards, including the requirement that all material must be verifiable. This is the same reason that the Penny Arcade Elemenstor saga was deleted from Wikipedia - none of it could be verified by reliable, published sources. Wikipedia has a problem where a lot of the articles are unsourced and don't meet the core policies of Wikipedia; there is a constant effort at the articles for deletion page to scrub Wikipedia of those articles. I understand your disappointment, but remember that there are other wikis that you can put your material on, and if your books are ever published and attain critical note, people will write up articles on them and link to the campaigns that were the fruit of your creativity. Again, thanks for making a good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia; I invite you to contribute in ways that might slightly better reflect the encyclopedia's goals, as it's always a good thing when people take a constructive interest in the project. Captainktainer * Talk 10:44, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
