Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacaranda Jim


 * 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 Graham Cluley. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:07, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Jacaranda Jim

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Self-published college project WP:MADEUP, with no independent secondary sources WP:SIGCOV. RecallZero (talk) 18:42, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:35, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:35, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Delete: Huh. I wrote some computer games in BASIC for the UMass mainframe in the mid-80s ... do "Die In A Pit" or "Death Race UMB" get articles too? No, I don't think so, because they fail the GNG going away, and so does this.   Ravenswing   06:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete—no reliable sources currently present in article. Searching Google News archives and Google Books with search term "Jacaranda Jim" retrieves nothing of relevance, just false positives. Use of the custom Google search provided by WP:VG/S shows that Jacaranda Jim has an entry on Russian gaming site Absolute Games, but there doesn't seem to be any significant coverage. CtP  (t • c) 01:08, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment In its time, this was one of the better-known British text adventures - the computer games industry was small enough at the time that good self-published games did get noticed. Having said that, any in-depth coverage in reliable sources is likely to be at least twenty years old and (judging by a quick search) almost certainly offline - the best I have found are these passing mentions. While these certainly don't justify a standalone article, Graham Cluley, the game's author, has had a subsequent notable career as a computer security expert and, in the absence of known better sources, a redirect to his article is, I think, justifiable. PWilkinson (talk) 13:35, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
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