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Revision as of 21:54, 17 March 2010
The Riftware Cycle page
For the moment, I would (as an outsider to all things Riftwar) would suggest the following:
Until information on the Cycle is released, simply have the redirect Riftwar point at the current article: Folks looking for that aren't likely looking for information on the author, and the existing page is as close as we have.
Try to work on a Riftwar Cycle page, probably in your userspace (User:Mercenary Roadie/The Riftwar Cycle perhaps?) until it's released or otherwise notable.
Once the subject of the article meets our inclusion criteria, that is, until it's got enough publicity to become a notable subject, move your proto-article to the appropriate page (using the move function, please, not cut-and-paste) and add a disambiguation page to Riftwar.
Hopefully, this would lead people to the information they want to find, which (as an encyclopedia) is our goal. :)
Thanks for all your work in making Misplaced Pages a better 'pedia! Kylu (talk) 20:09, 5 February 2009 (UTC)