Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Berabow Man

Berabow Man
Remake of older copy/paste & search&replace article by part of User:193.164.112.20, careful reading reveals the article to be just a grossly made vandalism/joke, and the user has a well-known history of vandalism/unconstructive edits. All relevant info about the game's arcade version can already be found in the Bravoman article. EpiVictor 19:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC) March listing is moot, was speedy redirected to Bravoman. Angr/ talk 20:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * 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 of the debate was Delete. enochlau (talk) 23:20, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Berabow Man
The Berabow Man article appears to be a shallow copy of the Bravoman article with just changes in the names, no images, and no apparent reason for creation e.g. like "Berabow Man" being an actual alternate name for the actual Namco's game Bravoman. Also, its author vandalized the original Bravoman page and redirected to his/her version. This article offers little or nothing extra information compared to the original, and has little reason to exist.

Berabow Man is NOT a shallow copy of the Bravoman article. The game name is BERABOW MAN based upon Namco's own listings: - BERABOW is in the default high score listing - BERABOW MAN is listed in the history of Namco games in Namco Museum Volume 1 (PS1) - BERABOW MAN is listed in the history of Namco games in the end credits of Dragon Saber (1990). Bravoman is just an NEC PC-Engine conversion of the game, translated into English.
 * I cross checked, and seen that there is indeed an arcade (Japanese only) "Beraboh Man" (the sources are uncertain between Berabow and Beraboh, however it's even emulated under MAME). But still, IMHO the best thing would still be merging the "Berabow man" info with the Bravoman article, as this is the most common name under which the game is known and under which its ENGLISH versions are known. And, gingerfield rocks, your article IS just a copy of the original, and claiming that it focuses on the original japanese arcade version while keeping the NEC's version english texts unaltered iand deleting the whole article is a bit hypocritical... EpiVictor 12:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete, and add any "extra" information it may have to the original Bravoman article. EpiVictor 20:09, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * After seeing that "Berabow" or "Beraboh Man" really exists, I still favor my original proposal: Strong Delete and merge Beraboh/Berabow info and trivia with Bravoman article. EpiVictor 12:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete with prejudice as apparent WP:FORK Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] AfD? 21:28, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete The original page has the better reference material. -- (aeropagitica) 22:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't delete This article focuses on the original arcade game, not the NEC PC-Engine conversion. Gingerfield rocks 11:09, 5 January 2006
 * Again, it would probably be better to merge the info and redirect to the original Bravoman article than merely copying it and changing all Bravoman references to Berabow, including the english texts...you are merely contraddicting yourself by claiming that Berabow Man focuses on the "original arcade game" (in Japanese) while keeping all the original texts from the "english" PC-Engine version in your article....this is called duplicating an article, if I'm not wrong. If that was the case, then we should have continuous edit wars over Vega, M.Bison and Balrog, since the Japanese versions of Street Fighter games name them differently... EpiVictor 09:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)


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