Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WikiProject Video games

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 delete. WP:SNOW MBisanz ^talk 23:05, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Video games (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Someone has written an article on a Wikiproject in the main space with a shiny new account. They're obviously familiar with policies such as WP:RS and WP:N, look at all those references! Only not a single one of those references makes any reference to the Wikiproject, and are instead general articles about Wikipedia. I've written about the Edge article here, and the other sources are available online. This project is not notable, there are no references, and "criticism" should just fall into Criticism of Wikipedia. - hahnchen 20:33, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 21:06, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete None of the referenced articles are actually about the WikiProject; perhaps the article should be covered in an article like Video games on Wikipedia? (although that's hardly likely to ever exist...) flaminglawyer 21:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete,(note to other editors, this is not the VG wikiproject page, but a mainspace article about it, in case you are confused), critiques should be merged to the notes page. Article creation seems very WP:POINTy given the recent discussion on the Edge magazine article and knowing the feelings of those involved, but not enough to sniff out sockpuppetry. --MASEM 21:40, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - unsourced (references are not about the Wikiproject), and although WP:WAWI doesn't prohibit writing about Wikipedia, I think articles about individual Wikiprojects are too much like navel-gazing. JohnCD (talk) 21:46, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, per nom. Just lacks proper sources. Versus22 _talk 23:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - looks like disruption of Wikipedia to make a point or just plain disruption. I sense some sort of skull-quackery going on, as I find it odd that the creator's only contribs consist of creating the main article, then creating the talk page complete with WikiProject tags (as well as assessing the article as Top-priority), and placing it under the New Article Announcements page. Somebody is obviously disgruntled about something. MuZemike 00:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • New articles are supposed to be listed on the New Article Announcements page. SharkD (talk) 05:55, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, I know that. However, looking at the edit history of WP:VG/N, I smell something fishy in that this user has posted this on that page; that normally doesn't happen. MuZemike 06:17, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • It was User:MrKIA11 who rated the article as Top-Priority, technically. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 14:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Ah, yes, you are right. Didn't look closely enough at the talk page's history, just at the creator's contribs. MuZemike 21:45, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and expand the second paragraph to Criticism of Wikipedia. (I'm not sure where exactly in the article it should be merged to, however. Maybe a special "video games" section.) As for claims that the sources don't concern the project specifically... well, this is technically true, but seems a bit like WP:WIKILAWYERING. The sources could be understood to be with respect to editors of video-game related articles, most of whom would fall under this project's banner. Also, the second source does quote the Talk page of one of our task forces. Finally, we are all members of the project and should therefore be seen as being biased, just as any other person would be concerning an article about themselves. Membership on Wikipedia doesn't give us carte blanche in this regard. I know that users MASEM and MuZemike specifically are both listed under Category:WikiProject Video games members. SharkD (talk) 05:13, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The sources don't mention the wikiproject. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 14:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Oh noes! What if the journalists cited also write about this article and AfD in their blogs? That would make it notable, and someone might make an article about the article! Delete - as Megana points out, the sources don't explicitly mention the Wikiproject itself. However, it might be instructive to link to those sources from somewhere in the Wikiproject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marasmusine (talk • contribs) 16:13, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The only thing that comes close to being notable in this article is the "criticism" the project has attracted from those three sources, and even then it's not directed at the project itself (it's not even mentioned at all) and not really notable because it appears to just be some complaints from butthurt MUD fanatics. --.:Alex:. 17:59, 25 February 2009 (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.