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BattleMaster => BM General Discussion => Topic started by: Karlaek on March 11, 2014, 06:45:13 PM

Title: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Karlaek on March 11, 2014, 06:45:13 PM

We should defiinitely make a Wikipedia page sometime soon.  It would improve our SEO drastically and help people learn about the game who otherwise probably wouldn't have read about it.  Thoughts?

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Anaris on March 11, 2014, 06:50:02 PM

Well, you're more than welcome to try, but it's already been deleted multiple times due to non-notability.

The only way they're going to let it stick around (if they ever would) is if BattleMaster got multiple non-user-contributed reviews from mainstream gaming sites. (This isn't just supposition; this is what the people who voted for deletion on at least one previous occasion explicitly stated.)

Personally, I'd expect that to happen some time around the 3rd of Never.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Gustav Kuriga on March 11, 2014, 07:18:02 PM

Yeah, the deletionist movement in Wikipedia is unfortunately in the majority.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Chenier on March 11, 2014, 10:29:08 PM

Quote from: Gustav Kuriga on March 11, 2014, 07:18:02 PM

Yeah, the deletionist movement in Wikipedia is unfortunately in the majority.

I can't imagine what the hosting costs for Wikipedia would be if it weren't for the deletionists, though. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Velax on March 11, 2014, 11:51:15 PM

There must be a page for this type of game though, that we could at least list BM on.

Edit: There we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplayer_browser_games

May still get deleted, as all the other ones on the list appear to have separate Wikipedia pages that it links to.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: vonGenf on March 12, 2014, 01:41:56 PM

Quote from: Velax on March 11, 2014, 11:51:15 PM

There must be a page for this type of game though, that we could at least list BM on.

Edit: There we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplayer_browser_games

May still get deleted, as all the other ones on the list appear to have separate Wikipedia pages that it links to.

Yep, it was deleted after 6 hours.

Wikipedia is not a marketing channel. I'm not surprised that this type of thing would get deleted.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Indirik on March 12, 2014, 05:24:27 PM

Quote from: vonGenf on March 12, 2014, 01:41:56 PM

Wikipedia is not a marketing channel.

Well, that's not really true. You just have to be clever about it. There are companies out there that have their interns create wikipedia pages that specifically relate to their line of business. The source material they cite are whitepapers published by their own company. The graphics used to support the article show products with their corporate logo on it. All the supporting references point back to their web site, or to journal articles written by their employees, etc.

All you have to do to get your page up is to have enough external references. And that's where BattleMaster continually falls short. If you can get a couple magazines to print articles or reviews that cite BattleMaster, you can get the wikipedia page back for it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Chenier on March 12, 2014, 06:40:11 PM

Indeed. Wikipedia IS a marketing channel, just one reserved for those already well-off.

Title: Re: Battlemaster Wikipedia Page
Post by: Fleugs on March 21, 2014, 07:09:08 PM

There's been a dutch wikipedia about Battlemaster since 2005.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlemaster