Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Map Of The Floating City


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The result was   keep. Spartaz Humbug! 21:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

A Map Of The Floating City

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nn web browser, unreferenced nymets2000  ( t / c / l ) 14:43, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Has a lot of gHits and is both his album and a game, but it hasn't really received enough media coverage yet. Here's what I found: . --Odie5533 (talk) 15:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How in the world is the article from Variety alone not reason enough to a. rewrite the article and b. keep it? Drmies (talk) 17:11, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Significant coverage is available       — frankie (talk) 15:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Those sources appear either unreliable, or present only trivial coverage of the subject. --Odie5533 (talk) 16:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Could you be more specific as how is it that they are unreliable or trivial? — frankie (talk) 16:24, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The 2nd article deals mostly with the artist himself. The 3rd provides decent coverage. The 4th I can't say, but it looks really short. 5th is an interview which does not support notability. 6th appears unreliable (is Clyde Smith a reliable reporter in the industry?). 7th is a decent reference. I believe overall the coverage is not significant enough to warrant an article, especially since the current article is on the game and not the album, which is mentioned even less than the album itself. --Odie5533 (talk) 16:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Then rewrite the article to correct that. Drmies (talk) 17:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, though I disagree with your general assessment. The second one (which is indeed mostly about Dolby) comes about because of the album's release, which is mentioned as part of the article's lead. I cannot comment on Clyde Smith being reliable, but I would disagree that that means that he is unreliable by default, and looking at the sources in general it seems clear to me that the album is considered noteworthy by a fair number of different venues, which are independent of the artist and not fan-driven (such as forums or certain blogs), and that is what notability is ultimately about — frankie (talk) 18:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 16:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. Speedily, please. This was a bad article. The name of the game--not 'browser'!--is "The Floating City"; the name of the album is the current name of the article. I have rewritten it and added some of the sources that were pointed out here. It is plenty notable--just the fact that it was performed in 2011 in the way in which the article now points that it makes it notable. The current sources are mostly web-based, sure, but big deal. It's an album by a highly notable artist, it's existence is not in question, it currently contains more than a tracklist (it doesn't contain a tracklist), ergo it can stand alone. Drmies (talk) 17:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per added sourcing, especially Variety article - clearly notable. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:37, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. The sources currently in the article, including the Variety piece, demonstrate that this meets WP:GNG. 28bytes (talk) 18:53, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You know what sucks? I sign up for the game, with a cool user name and all, and only when I try to play I am told that it ended yesterday. Damn you Thomas Dolby! Drmies (talk) 18:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oops: Word War, haha. Drmies (talk) 18:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I did check to make sure there wasn't a Word War, it being fiction and all. Could have been part of the Great Scrabble Massacre of 2420. 28bytes (talk) 19:24, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep: notable, though not when nominated (was 1 sentence crap)--Milowent • talkblp-r 21:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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