Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Formula Dé circuits


 * 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. Having a gallery of 'fair use' images is far from 'fair use', and possible copyvio too. - Mailer Diablo 08:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Formula Dé circuits
Unencyclopdic gallery of fair use images. Delete. Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 13:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a photo album. What little information there is could potentially be merged into the Formula Dé article.  Srose  (talk)  14:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep: I still think that given the subject, the page—as it was—was encyclopedic. Just like a book on Beanie-babies needs pictures to be usefull, a description of one of these circuits without at least a low-res picture is also difficult.  (The actual boards are the size of a poster)  I had originally intended to add more content—as I just have to section one, and will for the rest of the sections over the next week or so. Especially with said content added, I believe this page meets Wikipedia’s criteria, and while it may deserve a cleanup tag of some sort, I do not believe it should be deleted. —MJBurrage •  TALK  • 14:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete gamecruft. Maybe merge some excerpts and a picture or two to Formula Dé. Phr (talk) 15:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge a couple of pics into F De. There's no real information in this article.  If this was an encyclopedic De article, I'd definitely be looking to keep it but it isn't. MLA 15:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, merge some pictures into Formula Dé. Let the content (such as it is) die off; it's duplicated in Formula Dé's external links anyway. Percy Snoodle 16:02, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It is very-much a work in progress at the moment, but there are things to say about each circuit that would be of interest to anyone reading up on the game. (Enough that it would clutter the main article) —MJBurrage • TALK  • 16:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This page was one of the first I created here, and at the time I did not know images without text were generally against policy. When it was page-blanked in a recent edit, it showed up in my watch list, and I restored it as the first step in fixing it.  Before I could do much else, it was listed for deletion.


 * Merge a couple of images into Formula Dé. I'm a fan of the game, but this is "detail only of interest to players of the game"; it doesn't add a proportionate amount of encyclopedic perspective about the game.  The meat of this is already in the parent article, and doesn't need to be duplicated here.  Barno 18:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * How is this any different than the innumerable episode lists that Wikipedia has for TV shows? —MJBurrage • TALK  • 20:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: The TV irritainment programs have millions of repeat viewers, sometimes tens of millions. Formula Dé has a few thousand or at most a few ten-thousands of face-to-face players, and big multi-game tournaments might have a few dozen FD players.  There might be a few thousand more players at online sites like BSW if they have FD.  That big difference in broadness-of-influence is what hits Wikipedia standards; FD has narrower notability no matter whether it does much more to make people think and interact and make their own fun.  Barno 13:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Bad idea for an article. No fair-use galleries.  Mango juice talk 20:59, 31 July 2006 (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.