Mski.benj

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Regarding the Garena Article

Hi Stifle,

I'm Benj Dalmacio from the Philippines.

I am going to ask about the article on "Garena" which was deleted late last year (2008)

Garena is a gaming platform currently being used by various online gaming leagues around the world such as the leagues organized by Meet Your Makers (which has a separate article here in Wikipedia) and other leagues from other countries.

I have been a Garena moderator ( and currently an administrator for the Philippines) for two years now. I haven't seen the original article created by one of our users, but according to the delete logs that it was "blatant advertising". Would it be possible if I get a copy of the article so that our staff can review it and come up with a more encyclopedic rather than blatantly advertising one?

Are there also any other steps we should undergo in order to get an article up for Garena (without of course getting deleted again) ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Garena

Thank you very much

Mski.benj (talk) 16:22, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Garena was deleted under criterion 7 (under Articles) of our criteria for speedy deletion because it appeared to be an article about an organization which didn't indicate why it was important or significant. Please see WP:ORG for details of what might show notability. If you think that these criteria are met, please explain which one and provide citations from reliable sources to back up your claim, and I will consider undeleting the article. Stifle (talk) 16:35, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

The only one of the sources you suggested that is a reliable source is Alexa, where a rank of 1569 should be sufficient to confirm notability. However, I just looked at the page and it appears that the article was most recently deleted by NawlinWiki. You would need to refer to him to request undeletion, but you can just recreate the article if you wish. Stifle (talk) 19:00, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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