Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bamboozle!


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) buidhe 14:36, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Bamboozle!

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This has sat with a notability tag for 12 years - it's time we resolved it one way or the other. There is also relevant info on the Talk page. I couldn't establish that this meets WP:NOTABILITY. Boleyn (talk) 07:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep I've added extra refs to the talk page, they're not sole articles on it, but they do pass the non-trivial threshold. This subject will have very little about it online, because it pre-dates mass usage of the internet. The majority of the sources are ones mourning its loss as it's switched off. - X201 (talk) 11:37, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: Based on X201's post on the talk page and a few that I found in Google Books, I think these are relevant:
 * Television and the Second Screen: Interactive TV in the Age of Social Participation by James Blake, Taylor & Francis (2016)
 * "The life and death of teletext, and what happened next" by Chris Allcock, Den of Geek (June 28, 2018)
 * "Ceefax and Teletext: From Bamboozle to Mega-Zine, 12 reasons they were way better than the internet" by Catriona Wightman, Digital Spy (March 24, 2016)
 * The Post-broadcasting Age: New Technologies, New Communities : Papers from the 25th and 26th University of Manchester Broadcasting Symposia, University of Manchester (1995)
 * Computer Games and Digital Cultures: Conference Proceedings, Tampere University Press (2002)
 * It's not a lot, but I think collectively it demonstrates notability for a pre-internet subject. I added these to the article in a Further reading section so that people can use them to improve the article. -- Toughpigs (talk) 22:27, 24 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - There are sources, but they aren't used in the article. Analog Horror, ( Speak ) 22:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - per Toughpigs, article passes WP:GNG. Videogameplayer99 (talk) 23:06, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


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