Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halflife2.net

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus (thus keep). Not an easy decision, but the policy says: when in doubt, don't delete. I count 7 delete votes (including the nominator), most of which have short motivation, apparently based on the opinion that no game fansite is encyclopaedic. On the other side, we have 4 keep votes (excluding the anonymous ones but including the rather new user Beerdude26), of which two merge and one perhaps merge. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 22:13, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Halflife2.net
Non-notable forum. --fvw *  16:18, 20 September 2005 (UTC) Halflife2.net was influential in the development of Half Life 2, one of the most popular games of all time. -Miccy
 * Keep, is according to alexa 71,012 visited site . Also well known in the half-life/game crowd. -feydey 16:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Google only gives 13 unique hits for "Halflife2.net". --fvw *  16:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We are the largest Hl2.net community on the net. It wont bother anyone if we keeping it.
 * Delete Whatever its ranking its still a game fansite. DJ Clayworth 17:54, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Forumcruft. Even if it is the largest Hl2 fansite on the internet, the bulk of the article concerns "incidents" that are of absolutely no interest to anyone outside of the Halflife2.net community.  --Isotope23 18:32, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This section is WIP. Give it time and all issues will be resolved.  As I said, keep the page.  This will be of interest in the future.

If you don't like it, don't come here, but the fact is that Halflife2.net was infact a huge gateway to the revealing of critical key information for the game halflife2, and deserves just as much right to be here as other seemingly irrelevant articles. --- Wolfman
 * Comment, can anyone probe the HL2 development was indeed influenced by this site?
 * Answer, yes, Halflife2.net is the community that was originally informed of the HL2 leak. The news spread out from there. Forum Thread
 * Merge If it was instrumental in the development of HL2, it should be on the game's page, even if as only a link.  But that doesn't mean that it warrants an article. Anetode 04:49, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete gamecruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Insignificant forum-cruft. jni 14:02, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. A huge source of official information (over 50 pages of Valve e-mail responses). Also involved in the so called "Tests" by the Valve personnel. A valuable piece of Half-Life 2 folklore.--Beerdude26 19:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Remember Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. Would you expect this in Encyclopaedia Britannica? --Neigel von Teighen 15:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I wouldn't expect to see video games in an Encyclopaedia Britannica at all, no matter if they're popular. There's even a Wikipedia page for Sam Fisher, the fictional hero in the game Splinter Cell (And its sequels). Wikipedia houses many articles that shouldn't be in Wikipedia.--Beerdude26 16:38, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Forumcruft. Thunderbrand 19:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I think delete is too far - the site deserves an entry, probably soley for the purpose of the news announcment of the Half-Life2 leak. And that's that - the nonsensical entries relevant only to the members of the HL2.net community are probably best left GONE.--[User:Pseudonym|Pseudonym]] 2:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or perhaps merge ··gracefool |&#9786; 18:36, 25 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.