24th January 2006, 10:42 AM
Quote:Hello. First I have to say thank you for wikipedia, it's become my central hub for research and that means volumes to me.
My question concerns the creation of an article about this website: http://www.tcforums.com
Basically, we have around 7 to 8 years of history, mostly comedic but most of it quite personal and even introspective. We are a message board that broke off from a more corporate site and started up on our own. We are now down to about 10 active members and we fear that after all these years, Tendo City may be falling off the map. What we aim to do is create the article (essentially about Nintendo, the company and us being its fans) to preserve Tendo City and help new members catch up on our history as we progress to hopefully gaining said new members.
I dont want it to seem like an ad, obviously you wouldn't want that either. As we are not a corporate site and do not have any income from the site I think you can see that we have good intentions to fill the article with good content about the obscure message board and its cast.
The reason I have sent this email is because one of the members tried to create the article and was subsequently deleted without notification or reason, so we dont know what rules we broke or how to circumvent them. We would very much appreciate the ability to display this article and keep in step with the guidelines of wikipedia.
As with other areas of your site, I would like to see Wikipedia become not just a neo-Babylonian library, but also a central hub for internet musings and oddities. History of cyberspace and what not. We feel that we could be a major part of that history as we are among one of the first major forums of the internet for Nintendo but also that there are many, many forums out there with a tight knit group of people who feel like they own their own little corner of the internet and eventually fall in to obscurity as well. The funny, the weird, the informative and the plain bizzare should be incorporated and Tendo City (with such topics as religion, politics, game design, etc) fits all of these catagories.
If it would be possible to create this article within the guidelines of wiki without it being deleted by administration please let me know. If it is not possible, if you could please, tell us why. Perhaps a happy medium could be met. I'm sure I dont need to explain the centralized mentality of the internet, how it's a 'seperate world' and contains its own vast history, but I would like you to see that Tendo City is a part of that history and, at the very least, will make anyone who had been a part of it be able to catch up on the forum and add their experiences with it.
Thank you for your response,
Sean
Let's see what happens.