User talk:Johnatmicronews

MfD nomination of User:Johnatmicronews/sandbox1

User:Johnatmicronews/sandbox1, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Johnatmicronews/sandbox1 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Johnatmicronews/sandbox1 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 16:34, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Johnatmicronews, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Files listed for deletion

Some of your images or media files have been listed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 May 13 if you are interested in preserving them.

File:James-Mitchell Catan.jpg
File:Royal Standard of James-Mitchell.png
File:Catan Coat of Arms.png
File:Flag of new dalmatia.jpg

Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 08:27, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but Wikipedia is not the place for articles about things like the Republic/Kingdom of Catan. For a summary of the reasons, see Wikipedia is not for things made up one day.

Wikipedia's test for inclusion is called Wikipedia:Notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Facebook, Twitter, blogs, places where anyone can post anything (like the Micronations Wiki); independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also WP:Notability (summary)

There is some latitude for user sub-pages and sandboxes, but they are not for pages that look like articles but have no hope of becoming encyclopedic. Sorry, but the Micronations Wiki is the place for this kind of thing, not Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 08:54, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]