Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic Pockets (company)


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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. Killiondude (talk) 07:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Magic Pockets (company)

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Magic Pockets easily fails WP:SIGCOV, as you will quickly find that there are exactly zero sources that discuss the studio. If you search strictly for "Magic Pockets" in VG source, you will get a lot for the eponymous game, but none for the studio. Stripping Bitmaps Brothers from the search results will return a few hits (but not as many as you'd hope) for mentions of the company, which usually ranges from "Magic Pockets, the studio behind (...)", "Magic Pockets, the team responsible for (...)" to "handheld specialists Magic Pockets". The most informative I found is an article where it says that they are Parisian (although they are located about 30 minutes outside Paris, in Torcy). The only reliable+usable source I found, their 2015 2006-retrospective Develop 100 shortlisting, is in the article, but wrapping an article around one reliable and one primary source does not even make for a good stub.

I will have to say that I removed or cut down some content, though not without reason: Things like their 2000 foundation were sourced with their website, however, the website does not give this information; the whole fuzz with Take-Two buy a company Gaia Groupe (they did buy a company named Gaia Capital Group, but that is not related to Magic Pockets), following which Magic Pockets "quickly proposed" to purchase the studio back was completely unsourced, and frankly, I couldn't find it anywhere. Even MobyGames tells a different story. Our Take-Two Interactive article presently says that they were acquired in June 2005, and sold again in January 2007; not so quickly, eh? Then again, no sources there either. The last piece I removed is that they were working on "an announced Wii U game" was sourced with an unreliable citation ("Nintendo Enthusiast"), which was published in June 2014, so vastly out-of-date. Everything that is in the article presently is either sourced through their website or is the Develop 100 shortlisting, and there is not much more to it. As such, the article, as noted in the introductory sentence, fails WP:SIGCOV and should be deleted. Lordtobi ( &#9993; ) 11:25, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 13:30, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jdcomix (talk) 01:22, 18 February 2018 (UTC)


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