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The result was merge to Gold farming. causa sui (talk) 23:40, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Game sweatshop[edit]

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This was kept because of SNOW arguments last time. I don't think anyone actually looked at the article, which hasn't really changed much. The article appears to be a heavily-biased editorial about the lack of virtues of trading money for in-game items/accounts/money for MMO(RPG)s. There are no sources that really use a term "game sweatshop". Furthermore, this appears to be basically a statement on Runescape's decision to deal with this dated from 2007. Nothing much has changed since then.

I would ask that moderators not close this on SNOW arguments given that there are serious issues with the article shown above that have not been addresses, including whether the term "game sweatshop" is even a relevant term.陣内_Jinnai 17:16, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep the nomination just seems to be the weak argument of WP:NOEFFORT. Why does no-one care to improve this? Perhaps because there's no money in it. Think about it ... Warden (talk) 17:46, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • If it actually addressed the broad concept coined in the article's page "Game sweatshop" and didn't appear to be an editorial centered around farming then maybe. NOEFFORT is not some blanket statement you can throw around to keep things forever.陣内_Jinnai 21:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Gold farming. This article does provide some specific content not seen elsewhere, but it is framed in a critical work of original research that doesn't deal with a subject independent of Gold farming. I can't find any evidence that the term 'game sweatshop' is even in wide usage and it isn't specifically used by the cited references. Several Times (talk) 18:55, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) 陣内_Jinnai 21:17, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with Gold farming. The term name itself may not be notable, but the definition of it is certainly something that's about as rampant as gold farming. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 21:38, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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