Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Driver: The Recruit


 * 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   redirect to Driver (series). The consensus is to merge the article, but as was mentioned, the entire content is all ready present at the target. All that's left is to point the redirect. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  12:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Driver: The Recruit

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Extremely little known about the game at present. Doesn't seem to warrant an article yet. Oscarthecat (talk) 11:15, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - If it hasn't been released, how do we know if its notable? Jenuk1985  |  Talk  11:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Third-party sources and, occasionally, other arguments for significance. The same way we know with everything else. Why? There's no rule that upcoming or cancelled games deserve special treatment one way or the other. Duke Nukem Forever is an extreme example. I'm 'neutral, by the way. The nominator's rationale is that the article doesn't do enough good, but that doesn't seem like something we can or should measure effectively. It's not affecting performance, it's not eroding our standards, it's not making more important things more difficult to find, and it could be of help to (say) people checking rumors. --Kiz o r  14:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 13:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Driver (series) for now, removing any direct assertions that the title is Driver: The Recruit. Although the trademark can be mentioned, to claim that it is the name of the new game is original research at this point; none of the sources actually claim that the trademark is for the particular game being developed. This isn't the first time AimalCool has done this sort of thing. Last week, the user took fan speculation of a possible release date for the Dreamcast 2 and decided that it was a definitive worldwide release date, even though there is no credible evidence that the console even exists. Dancter (talk) 16:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt until such time that notability is established. It will just get recreated over and over by different anons otherwise. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  20:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:CRYSTAL. No need to redirect the page as the title isn't even linked to anything. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 00:16, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It's linked somehow to this weird thing called the search box. Dunno what it is. SharkD (talk) 07:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I meant subject-wise. "Driver: The Recruit" is just a registered trademark and not yet a game of any sort. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 12:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge. Ha! That's a point for SharkD. It's (hopefully) agreed that the contents of this article could be covered somewhere, even if it's to stop recreation. It should also be uncontroversial that the article's merits are dubious. Its title may also be a search term. Therefore we should merge to Driver (series). I see no downside to this. --Kiz o r  21:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the relevant section per Kizor, though it seems the information is already present and correct and no merge is necessary. Someoneanother 19:24, 1 July 2009 (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.