Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dual moons


 * 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 Delete. —Wknight94 (talk) 17:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Dual moons (AfD subpage)


Oh crud I accidentally deleted the deletion rationale I spent so long writing. Umm... nn del? Quarma 14:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, non-notable hoax perpetrated by the users of a non-notable internet forum. No independent reliable sources &mdash; according to the article, the tricked websites "simply erased any trace of their bogus reporting from their web archives immediately". Demiurge 15:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment No, as a web-search will reveal, even months later, hundreds of sites still report on the hoax. That footnote you are refering to in the article is addressing a handful of corporate-owned sites, which chose to change what they wrote. - - - Also, not to boost anyone's egos over at CVDF, but it is not a non-notable forum. Searching for Castlevania in any search engine will yield that site as the #1 result.David 15:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC) — Nonresonance (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. - re-signed as "David" by 72.208.103.173 (talk • contribs)
 * Comment It should be noted that a Wiki search for "Castlevania: Dual Moons" will redirect to "Portrait of Ruin." At one time, another source had a stub for Dual Moons, but when the title of the real DS game came out, people had built off the page and made it Wiki's official Portrait of Ruin page. I say that makes it a STRONG KEEP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.103.173 (talk • contribs)
 * ARTICLE SHOULD STAY, There are hundreds of independent sources for this information. As the article states, a simple google search of "dual moons" lists them. Also, sites such as 4-color-rebellion and others, link to the forum of origin when explaining the hoax. I feel this entry has merit because it shows how irresponsible reporters can be when reporting a news story. They will base their stories on unreliable sources just to be the first to cover it. And IGN, which is a major site, listed this fake game as the #3 most anticipated game in the DS genre... and it never existed. David 8:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC) — Nonresonance (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  re-signed as "David" by 72.208.103.173 (talk • contribs)
 * Comment http://www.4colorrebellion.com/ appears to be a weblog or self-published website, and so does not count as a reliable source. The same applies to most or all the other sources from the Google search linked. Demiurge 15:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment gamespot.com is one of the many extremely reliable sources, and it appears on page 1 of the results. There are plenty more I could copy and paste. Also, there is no self-promotion going on in this wiki entry, since no specific names or handles were used. It was simply an account of news reporting gone wrong.David 15:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Kill, because using overdramatic words like that makes me look like an internet tough guy. -Angsty Wiki User —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.209.140.109 (talk • contribs).
 * Strong keep The sources are very valid.172.209.140.109 16:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Or, atleast Merge with main Castlevania articles. The Pokemon article has an entry on the fake "Diamond and Jade," versions, and the events surrounding Dual Moons make it, at the very least, more noteworthy than those. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.200.188.48 (talk • contribs).
 * Strong Delete as per nom and Demiurge SkierRMH, 08:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Did you want to back that up with a good reason or example? Or did you just come to start trouble and to post links to the resume of pages you've published? - The article is simple, to the point, and deals only with the facts. Facts that can be easily verified around the web. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.103.173 (talk • contribs)
 * Delete - non-notable prank covered by non-notable blogs and discussion boards.Glendoremus 22:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I see plenty of evidence of this hoax outside of just BBS sites. You can find pages for it on Nintendo.com, IGN.com and other big sites like that. I came to look it up on Wikipedia because it has been circulating on the web for months now. Even the man in charge of Castlevania: Koji Igarashi, had to make a statement claiming that no such game existed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.13.100.134 (talk • contribs).
 * 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.