Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dead Fantasy


 * 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 was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 17:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Dead Fantasy

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While I've found half a dozen mentions about it on sites like "wired.com", I'm not sure this passes WP:WEB, no awards, and coverage appears to be trivial. Worm  15:04, 1 December 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:33, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 17:46, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Comment: Rest assured, this topic is already fully covered on the Final Fantasy Encyclopedia on Wikia. By contrast, WP's coverage of games is weakened to the point of uselessness, leading game experts to not expand WP articles, leading back to deletion in a vicious circle.
 * For example, there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of articles on Chess openings, and individual articles for each of the five Chess pieces, and even the chessboard itself, but computer game mechanics, which are more complex and thus require more explanation than the moves of individual chess pieces, are not allowed in any computer game article. Chess is elegant in its simplicity, but it is simple. Its articles are therefore limp, repetitious, padded with illustrations and filled with hypothetical observations, while other game articles are bled dry of essential and empirically observable if not documented content.
 * Similarly Voice acting in Japan is given as much or more credit as/than film actors, yet the WP rules which I tried in vain to fight forbid the listing of voice actors in game articles. Anarchangel (talk) 08:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - It looks extremely dippy, but there are reviews of this thing at places like kotaku and joystiq, so I think it will scrape by for notability. Tarc (talk) 14:08, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. Ost (talk) 17:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and tag for sourcing - Coverage on Joystiq  --Teancum (talk) 18:39, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.