Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1964 (emulator)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  17:41, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

1964 (emulator)

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An old emulation project that (according to its GitHub page) has been abandoned sixteen years ago. All sources but "Emulator Zone" presently used in the article are primary (a relevant tag was added nine years ago), so I did a WP:BEFORE: Overall, I am seeing a lack of significant coverage in reliable sources and therefore a lack of notability. The article fails both WP:GNG and WP:NSOFT, warranting deletion. IceWelder &#91; &#9993; &#93; 09:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The Emulator Zone source only has a passing mention of the project among many others in the same category and links to an equally brief overview site with a download link.
 * In terms of reliable sources, I was only able to find a passing mention in this 2009 list of emulators by German magazine GameStar, with the same list cross-posted to sister site GamePro in 2012.
 * There is another passing mention in this list by Lifehacker that only spans one sentence. Although the reliability of Lifehacker has not been assessed, it is part of the same network as some other reliable sources like Kotaku, so I'm including it here for documentation.
 * The Internet Archive has no results and Google Scholar's only hit is this. Although I cannot access the full text, the abstract suggests that it primarily includes Wikipedia-sourced content.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions.  IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 09:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 09:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment I haven't investigated this topic, but my compliments to the nominator for nicely laying out their source searches and arguments for deletion. If other nominators took the same care in their nominations, AfD would be a happier place. -- 18:47, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've looked for sources as well and this doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. Woodroar (talk) 19:36, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - The nominator's excellent analysis of the sources, and my lack of finding anything else upon searches, indicates that this defunct emulation project does not pass the WP:GNG. Rorshacma (talk) 15:44, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


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