User:TheTechnician27/sandbox6

This is a sandbox for AfD nominations ---

Subject categorically fails to meet WP:GNG, WP:BASIC, WP:NACADEMIC, or WP:CREATIVE. The most compelling reliable, independent sources I could find regarding this subject are as follows:


 * An excerpt of a Polygon article: "Whitney “Strix” Beltràn, a high-profile indie developer responsible for the award-winning tabletop game Bluebeard’s Bride, is the project’s narrative director. [...] Beltràn also worked on Holovista, an ambitious mobile augmented-reality game that explored fantastical architecture and the culture of social media influencers. [...] Also on Twitter, Beltràn said she’s been working on the new D&D video game for some time."

Not quite plainly trivial and could maybe be construed as marginally advancing notability if presented alongside multiple other instances of much more significant coverage from other reliable, independent sources, but clearly nothing to hang one's hat on.


 * An excerpt of a PC Gamer article: "This was backed up by its project narrative director Whitney Beltrán, who has written for games like State of Decay 2 and Beyond Blue. [...] "Both Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Alliance are set in the Forgotten Realms, but Whitney Beltrán has a writing credit on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, a forthcoming supplement for the actual tabletop version of D&D describing D&D's underused gothic horror world, which would make a killer backdrop for a videogame."

Borderline trivial discussion of Beltrán. Akin to the first as far as establishing "Hey, this person exists and was credited in these three pieces of media", but coverage too insignificant to advance notability.

For those wondering about possible book sources, she does have a bio within the book Role-Playing Game Studies published by Taylor & Francis, but as best I can surmise, this is self-authored, as Beltràn is a co-author of Chapter 27 of this book and the biographies for other chapter co-authors read exactly as though they were self-authored, for example: "Edward Castronova wonders why vanilla ice cream is even produced in a world that knows chocolate. At Indiana University, he is Professor of Media, Director of the BS degree program in Game Design, and Chair of the Department of Media Arts and Production [...]". The second-most significant mention I could find of Beltrán in literature is in the self-published book "Analog Game Studies" Vol. II, and even this is trivial: "In this extreme example of prolonged immersion, [Patrick] Stewart was likely experiencing what Whitney "Strix" Beltrán terms ego-bleed, where personality contents of the character bleed-out into the player and vice versa."

There really is just no reliable, independent literature upon which to create an article about this subject, and the article in its current state reflects that. Every citation but one is primary, and the other one (which only contains a plainly trivial mention of Beltrán) is WP:FORBESCON, which per RSP should be treated as self-published. Half the lead is puffery based on a self-description published on the subject's website (there was even more obvious puffery before IceWelder removed it), and the already-short 'Career' section can be broken down as follows:


 * ~30 words (~25%) about Beltrán's actual credited role in creating these games.
 * 16 words (~14%) about a quotation of Beltrán's own description of the house in HoloVista.
 * 72 words (61%) about what the game Bluebeard's Bride is, which in a longer article would function as good background information for the reader, but which in an article this short and bereft of detail about Beltrán herself functions as padding.

The only reason I appraised this as worthy of any discussion at AfD instead of just a PROD is because I sympathize with student editors who are thrust into the deep end of Wikipedia, and I therefore want to give this article the most fair shake I can.