Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies


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The result was merge to Leisure Suit Larry. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:33, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies

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Non notable video game that was never made. Koala15 (talk) 00:22, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Represents the reason the numbering of the made episodes goes straight from 3 to 5 and that it's not Wikipedia's original idea to number them as such. Here's an important statement in the article: The franchise's installments, however, continue to be numbered as if this installment had been published. (The actual fourth installment of the franchise was its next, Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work.)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. North America1000 01:05, 26 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Merge to Leisure Suit Larry, which mentions other unreleased games in the series. This is not independently notable, it is really an in-joke for the series. The context will need a serious trim as the content includes a lot of fan trivia and is largely poorly sourced. Fences  &amp;  Windows  00:35, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I want to keep this article quite badly, but unfortunately I'm not really finding anything to show that it would merit an article. Most of the coverage for this is fairly minor, as it's comprised mostly of tongue in cheek references like this source where they claim that they'll talk about the unmade game... but never do. That's because the game is pretty much an extremely long running joke where they continually claim that the discs are "missing" and almost no details are given out about what the plot of the faux game would have been - something that's played up for laughs in LL5. We do get things like this where they say that it was deliberately skipped, but by large the coverage for this is always in passing. I'll try to see what I can find, but so far the sourcing is predominantly trivial. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm aware that there have been some primary sources given that go into more depth, but the problem there is that they're primary and we can't really use them for sourcing. If we had one really good in-depth, notability-giving source that covered the fourth game specifically then it could probably be different. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Merge/redirect per above. I wish we could keep this, but by large the only places that have discussed this to any depth are primary and we can't use those to show notability. As said above, this is a very long running joke with Al Lowe and Sierra, as they reference it frequently in the LLL games and in other Sierra fare. Occasionally you'll get other places that mention it like the ones mentioned in the article, but those are pretty few and far between - and I'm not sure that gag bits in Mad and Abandonia.com are really the type of thing that would count towards notability on here. If anyone can find a good argument towards keeping then I'm open, but it'd have to be pretty solid. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:11, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per F&W and Tokyogirl79. De Guerre (talk) 23:23, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


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