User talk:Darkcraft

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Contents 1 Marion 2 Hello 3 Gone With the blastwave Deletion 4 Gone With The Blastwave 5 Meetup on 23rd April 2007

[edit] Marion

If you intend to do any historical writing on your local area (as you have suggested on the Wikiproject Adelaide talk page) I would suggest borrowing these two books from your community library:

• The History of Marion on the Sturt, by Alison Dolling, 1981
• MARION 1945 - 2000: A Suburban City, by R.J.R. Donley, 2001

Best of luck, michael ^talk 15:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, also when replying to things on my talk page, should I write it here and assume that the person I want to talk to will check back? Or should I write it on their talk page? Darkcraft 08:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Its usually best to reply on the other persons talk page and to expect a response on your own, such as this one. Write an article, be bold! Wikipedia doesn't get made if we dont have the drive to just get out there and create articles. You can as a standard user (like myself and most wikipedians) create, edit and move pages. You don't have to mention every page on the discussion board; unless its directly relevant to the project I would not bother - that said, do as you wish! Good luck. michael ^talk 09:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Welcome to WikiProject Adelaide. I also went to Glenunga - finished in 2001. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 00:57, 24 April 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Gone With the blastwave Deletion

I added proofs that might be useful on the Gwtb Discussion.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gone_with_the_Blastwave Thanks for defending us, I would like to be of more help but my english really is too poor to argue well :) Altnabla

[edit] Gone With The Blastwave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gone_with_the_Blastwave Sorry for bringing this up again I'm sure you have had enough of this artical, but I just wanted to know what your reaction to that last argument I put forward, ie the image and translation of the magazine artical. Would you count that as a notable and verifiable source? The closing admin stated "The result was delete. No reliable sources = no verifiable notability, which is the applicable policy here." Yet the newspaper artical seemed fine, and unless you have objections to the magazine stuff I posted, that would be a second source. If you would have had no objections to the magazine evidence, then I would consider taking this to deletion review because the admin did not seem to take that evidence into account. Or maybe he just didn't think it fit the guidlines. Anyway, thanks for staying NPOV throughout the discussion despite our differing viewpoints and my arguing against so much.Darkcraft 00:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, the mentions here are really, really pushing it. I mean, the Belgian magazine basically says "This guy draws well". The same is essentially true of (Finnish?) newspaper. Personally, I wouldn't bother taking it to a deletion review - in order to meet standards, it has to have multiple, non-trivial, published sources. You have, now, two very marginal sources - one of which is almost certainly trivial, given that it is only one or two lines, and it's in a free paper. They definitely don't meet the spirit of the standards, if even the text. Frankly, you say that the comic is on the verge of being published - good! Then just wait. When Gone with the Blastwave is published, you'll have a veritable litany of good sources, and will have no problem setting up an article with a variety of sources that meet standards. That's what I would do here - in the meantime, if you took my advice, you can develop your own local version of the article, so you can be ready to post it when it gets published. Going to review is just going to be a big waste of time, in my opinion, since most admins will not be willing to overturn consensus due to the addition of a minor, arguably trivial, source. Just wait - it's doing well on comics trawling sites, so it doesn't really need a Wikipedia article. You're better off not squandering whatever credibility the article has getting it deleted over and over again, and just waiting it out. --Haemo 01:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok I wont take it to deletion review, not that we really had consensis it was about 50/50. I believe that this artical should be included in Wikipedia, but I also believe that the chances of it being successful at deletion review are too small for it to be worth the effort of submiting it.Darkcraft 03:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough - it was good discussing this material with you, regardless of our differences. It really helped firm up my understanding, and interpretation, of the standards Wikipedia has as guidelines, which makes me a better, and more effective, editor. --Haemo 03:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup on 23rd April 2007

Hi Darkcraft,

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but I'd like to let you know that the second Adelaide Meetup will take place on Monday 23rd of April at ZUMA Caffe, 56 Gouger Street, Adelaide. The meeting is at 7:30am for breakfast with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 2 for more details and indicate if you might attend.

Thanks,–cj | talk 14:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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