Minutes after I first created my page they flagged it because they said I needed some external citation to prove their notability requirements.
I added some links from third parties praising me and I also listed an album that three of my songs are commercially available on.
They have not said anything since. It’s really odd. I looked up other bitpop artists who barely have ANY information and absolutely no citations on their page and they are not getting flagged…
Google search c64 Messiah. I have links all over the place and am pretty rooted on the web.
If it was not for the gamesetwatch.com article someone wrote about me I am not sure they would keep my information up.
Crossing my fingers. Hopefully they will not flag it yet again.
I doubt your project qualifies to the WP notability guidelines. The style of writing is not really quality of wikipedia aswell. But I won’t flag it for now.
I am quite sure it will get flagged and deleted by someone else in near future though.
EDIT: Did some research and I think your project might qualify notability. Still the article style needs some work. You do have to keep your eye on the article. If it passes first AFD then you are mostly safe. You just have to make sure the article is of good quality or they can do quicker delete processes then AFD.
In other news: Wikipedia is not very nice place for promotion. On other hand, it’s nice place for wrecking your nerves completely.
Here is a AFD for MilkyTracker. Apparently it gave 2 google results at that time. (Currently about 50,000). Lately the article was recreated and also redeleted with quick dele scenario “recreation of previously deleted material”. The last one is dull thing sometimes. The ones doing deletions don’t really know anything about the topic they just see some flag pop-up in their software and hit delete.
If anyone writes a decent article on milkytracker to wikipedia, with secondary sources and posts it up to wikipedia. It will now remain for sure.
Article containing “MilkyTracker is a neat tracker softy that runz on mah mobilez, c000l!” Is not going to last longer than 10 seconds.
Trepain, I love you man, but this is just not right.
You’re not supposed to add yourself to wikipedia to my understanding. A fan has to do it!
And this sentence just made me laugh
“While his peers were cutting their teeth on their nintendo and atari game consoles, Roberto Aloi was fortunate enough to have received a commodore 64 for christmas at the age of 9”
I’d say the same. There are more famous people than you (no offense) available and their Wikipedia article usually is not existing or simply too short.
what if we all actually did this?
put up some music on archive.org put up all Our* links, and linked to each others wikipage?
then here in this thread, we pasted what we wrote about ourselves, and when the troll that lives under the bridge wakes up, deletes the entry, we just wait till the troll goes back to sleep and another one of us posts the other one of us’s page. XD
I wonder if there is a top secret “ghost writer” service that sells a package that guarantees your entry on wikipedia. Not that that would be right as it would make wikipedia contain more bulsh!t than it already does…but it would be neat to know that for a little bit of cash, I’ll have a wiki article complete with authentic looking article references, google results, and whatever it takes…I’d want my wiki article to say i took minimalism to a whole new level.
And be aware that the links on a wikipedia page are stated as “no-follow”, so the google bot won’t take them into account for ranking of the websites pointed at.
esaruoho: I don’t want to diss trepain with this, but you have been around since the 90’s and had a major impact on alot of people in the past, including other professional artists, so you definately deserve a wiki-page.
And yes, I think you should wait until someone else creates a wiki-page for you, just making your own is not the way to do. Once someone made it you can still edit it to make it correct, but to create it in the first place… No.
It doesn’t matter if you add your own page or if your friend or your fan adds the page. As long as it qualifies with Wikipedia rules on this. You need to be notable, and article has to state what makes you notable. Also, all the info needs to be verifiable by linked resources. And the resources may not be self published ie. blog. You may use your project website as source, but only on basic data. Other than that, you need to refer to third party news articles in music magazines and stuff like that. If there is no news articles about you in online music zines then you can easily assume that you are not notable enough for inclusion in wikipedia.
hi looza, i think i just woke up so i dont think im really comprehending whats being said. i do however note that:
"This page has been deleted. The deletion log for the page is provided below for reference.
00:43, 19 July 2008 Maxim (Talk | contribs) deleted “C64 Messiah” (Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: Not notable. using TW)"
i bumped into a lackluster entry on wikipedia and was surprised it was there, in may 2005. of course, i know who illbilly is, and yes, i’ve edited it on/off over the years to make it correct and precise.
