Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smoking Gun Interactive

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The result was redirect‎ to Keywords Studios#Operations. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:10, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Smoking Gun Interactive

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Disputed PROD. Appears to fail WP:NCORP. Sources mostly relate to Age of Empires: Castle Siege, so I suggest redirect or merge there. IgelRM (talk) 18:13, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games, Companies, and Canada. IgelRM (talk) 18:13, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Not mostly. Only three (2, 3, and 4) out of the six sources in article Smoking Gun Interactive relate to Age of Empires: Castle Siege. And the nominator is actually proposing a merger, not a deletion. This should go through the Wikipedia:Merging process, not the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion process. --Neo-Jay (talk) 03:12, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Clear WP:NCORP fail. Wikipedia is not a directory of every non-notable company. A merge would not make sense, as they also created Solitaire and have multiple potential targets. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:28, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 06:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Keywords Studios. Per Reference #4 substantiating the last sentence, the infobox and Keywords_Studios#Operations, Smoking Gun Interactive being a subsidiary is much more appropriate as a redirect than to a game it developed. I found one Bleeding Cool News article from 2022 that could feasibly be added to the stub otherwise. Astapor12 (talk) 19:25, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Keywords Studios#Operations. Better target article than any of their games. --Mika1h (talk) 12:30, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. WP:NOTWORK captures my views on the notability of articles on studios whose content and sourcing is only about the games they've put out. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 13:08, 7 June 2025 (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.