Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of amateur adventure games


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The result was   redirect to Indie game.  MBisanz  talk 03:05, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

List of amateur adventure games

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Cannot find any WP:verifiable sources supporting that the term "amateur adventure games" is notable. Any notable games could be included in Adventure games 1292simon (talk) 23:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article is dependent upon the former article Amateur adventure game to explain what its topic is, and that article has been deleted. If we don't even have an article about the general subject of amateur adventure games, I don't think we need a list of them. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:22, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is a sea of redlinks and even the blue links are often invalid: Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny goes to an article on a comic book; I'm not sure if Spooks (video game) is the correct game, as the article makes no reference of it being amateur; Apprentice (video game) is described as amateur, but it was produced as freeware by a professional studio; King's Quest (video game) again seems to be a professional production; several are redirects to Chzo Mythos and therefore shouldn't be separate entries. Some of the games are notable, but few have sources saying they're amateur, and even the definition of adventure game is vague. Those games that use Adventure Game Studio could be mentioned there instead. --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:47, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Trivial association, no main article, no clear inclusion criteria. While in principle, a list that cannot be completed is potentially viable, a list with more-or-less arbitrary inclusion criteria that is also impossible to complete is not. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Without an article defining what makes a game qualify as an "amateur adventure game", this list is hopeless. There's no criteria for what should be included, and the fact that most of the items on the list are redlinks paired with external links should make it clear this is just a honeypot for self-promoters to add themselves. —Torchiest talkedits 13:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is just a list of links to home pages.  If I want to find a home page for a game, I would Google that directly, not use this article.  Also, a random check showed that 5 out of 10 home page links were dead.  It seems highly likely that links in this page will get dated quickly. Gierszep (talk) 17:45, 15 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. With all of the hyperlinks without Wikipedia articles in this list, this certainly looks like a Link farm to me. There are a few well cited Google Scholar .edu publications though on the amateur adventure games topic. Pmresource (talk) 13:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Indie game. A Google test shows some 340k results for "amateur adventure game" and as Pmresource points out there is some coverage of the concept on Google Scholar. Essentially it looks to me like the term is a synonym for "indie game". Alternately, delete this article and simply make "Amateur adventure game" a redirect to "indie game". -Thibbs (talk) 23:38, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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