User talk:Coolblade2000

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Deleting Massively multiplayer live-action role-playing game[edit]

Thanks for contributing Massively multiplayer live-action role-playing game to Wikipedia. Unfortunately it's not clear why it's a noteworthy article. It appears to be a term used by one group (Living Arcana), and that group hasn't actually run anything. Absent some press coverage of the idea that includes the term, this article is likely to be deleted. Because Wikipedia's deletion process can be very brutal, I wanted to give you a heads up that you'll need to provide some third party citations. Unless some citations appear, I'll put the article up for deletion in a few days and I doubt it will survive. — Alan De Smet | Talk 00:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Edit by Alan De Smet: I've copied this response from my talk page to unify the discussion]]) In response to your deletion of MMLARP, yes it is a term that is being thrown about by a single group: living arcana. We will use a different term LBRPG (location based RPG) now since the feedback from wikipedia. Yes we have internal concepts proven. Yes it can be done. Yes we have press (check out our press release section or do google by searching for "livingarcana" and see the 900+ external sites that make mention of our mobile based programming work that we have been doing. We also are in negotiations with partnering with some very large companies which will hit the wires in the next several weeks. We hope that others will get on board and create what we are now coining LBRPG's but if they don't we are happy using the term just for our game and we like to use wiki as a way to describe the process of how a LBRPG works since we have had problems getting the concept across to people (you can see we actually link to wiki on our main page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolblade2000 (talk • contribs) 15:09, November 19, 2007

I'm all in favor of your experiments in gameplay. What you're doing sounds great. But Wikipedia requires non-trivial, third-party citations to establish that any given topic is noteworthy enough to be covered. Wikipedia is about documenting what is already noteworthy, not about helping to make new ideas noteworthy. The terms LBRPG and MMLARP are too new, their noteability isn't clear yet. There aren't articles on "How to start your own LBRPG" or "Top Five LBRPGs." (If there are, add citations to them in the article, it may yet be time for the article!) It looks like someone else has listed both Massively multiplayer live-action role-playing game and Location Based Role-Playing Game for deletion. They'll be gone in five days unless someone (possibly you) objects. I suggest you let it go for now. Once your game is running I'm sure you'll get some news coverage and you can get your game into Wikipedia as an article. You can use and define the term there. If the term gets reused by other people, great, at that point it will be a great candidate for its own article. (By the way, you can reply here, at least for a few weeks. I'm watching this page.) — Alan De Smet | Talk 23:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the deletion of MMLARP, likewise Massively multiplayer live-action role-playing game and Location Based Role-Playing Game (which I've listed for deletion). There may be some future time when your product is established and noted by reliable sources, and when that time comes it will be welcome on Wikipedia. But right now adding mentions of your product or the new type of game that it is an example of to Wikipedia is inappropriate because the subject matter is not notable by Wikipedia standards. Please read Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Advertising. Press releases do not demonstrate notability. --Ryan Paddy (talk) 23:58, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]