Talk:Strawpedo

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Hmwith wrote on the article page (under the 'hangon'): "I didn't know that it had been posted before, and I was surprised that the article did not exist. This is an extremely notable drinking game, and I am sure that there is much more information on it now than there previously was. Why was it deleted in the first place? Hmwith 06:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)"

Hmwith, if you didn't know that the page existed, then you have made a copyright violation by copying the text from some other page without acknowledging it. The chance that the page you created is identical to the page as it existed previously is nihil. We may not post pages here that we copy from other websites (or books, newspapers, magazines, ...), we have to write our own articles. As for the reason it was deleted in the first place: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strawpedo. Fram 10:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

You can't use the page as a source for the directions of play? I've seen people play it, and I could have just written the rules spread by word-of-mouth, but then it would have been deleted for not citing sources... so I found a source to use, but now what I put was too similar to the source? Isn't it supposed to have information from sources? If articles don't, they're gone.

I saw Strawpedo in the drinking games template, and I wondered why that article didn't yet exist. I thought that someone was just waiting for another to make it.

And what do you mean about copying the text from another page without acknowleding it? I did source the page. What are you talking about? Your statement confuses me.

As for it formerly being deleted, I'm sure that this article is much different than the previous one, with more information and sources correctly cited. Hmwith 13:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)