The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Speedy close, relist individually (WP:SNOW). --Fang Aili talk 03:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Boson (computer game)

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Boson (computer game) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - (View log)

I can find no evidence that these games are notable as Wikipedia defines it: "A topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject itself and each other." Therefore, I propose that we delete them. To avoid any perception of a conflict of interest or some kind of bias on my part, I will note that a) I tagged all of these and a few more for PROD; the tags were removed by various editors, which is why I've brought the debate here and b) these articles were brought to my attention after my deletion of Super Mario War as non-notable. PMC 21:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because of concerns about notability:

Advanced Strategic Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Armagetron Advanced (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Attal: Lords of Doom (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Bygfoot (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
C-evo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Castle Adventure (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Crack Attack! (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Crimson Fields (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Crossfire (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Cuyo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Dark Oberon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Dnafight (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Freedroid RPG (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
FreeOrion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Frozen Bubble (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
GLtron (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
HoverRace (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Kolf (computer game) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Konquest (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Liquid War (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
MegaMek (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) PMC 21:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


This is precisely my point: Wikipedia's policies are very exacting, and if followed to the letter relatively few articles would survive your deletion policy! A lot, in fact *most* games do not have "multiple non-trivial published works" associated with them. And especially older games, like "Castle Adventure," which you've tagged for deletion, would've had no "professional recognition" whatsoever. By deleting these are articles you are helping no one. I think you should focus your energies on proper classification of articles (which you admins have been doing a good job of so far).

Consider this, in the optimal case, with "perfect" classification of all information on Wikipedia, there would be no need to delete articles, since people will always find what they are looking for. The less "perfect" our classification, the more articles we will need to delete in order to ensure that things are still easy to find. Information is very strongly classified on Wikipedia, as I see it, so only articles that are blatantly useless should be deleted. Mindthief 21:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The alternative being contributors arguing about the nomination more than the actual articles. Seen it before, we're all reasonable human beings, I'm sure we can discuss these individually, sort the wheat from the chaff and locate sources for the ones which are notable. QuagmireDog 01:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.