Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outro (video gaming)


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The result was Delete--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 15:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Outro (video gaming)

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Let's knock the dust off this article and give it a good hard look. Ah, the Outro. You may know this concept by its more common name, the ending. Your first warning sign is that the article was created way back in 2005, before the majority of our modern notability guidelines had been created.

Beyond that: the entire thing is original research, with no references to independent sources whatsoever. It's full of opinions in the lead, then the "body" of the article is just a completely arbitrary list of games with endings, which, as we know, pretty much all games have, unless they're ancient arcade coin-gobblers. There's no clear criteria for inclusion as an example, other than some random editor came along and decided to add something.

I looked, and while there are plenty of people posting videos with "(video game) outro" as the title, no reliable sources have mentioned it. Searching books, I can't find anything. What I can find is mentions of outro as a generic concept; if anything, it's most commonly in music. There's no coverage of video game outros as something uniquely notable. —Torchiest talkedits 22:34, 16 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I was planning on redirecting this one to Glossary of video game terms but I didn't find an easy source at the time. I don't think the encyclopedia would be worse off if it was deleted, but this could be a useful redirect term if we have proof that "outro" is used in a video game-specific context. czar  14:16, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions.  czar  14:16, 17 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Outro is an appropriate term for what's being discussed, but there's really nothing special to video games with the term. I do not think there's a redirect option here being a disamb. title already. --M ASEM (t) 16:39, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - per Masem above. Sergecross73   msg me  21:54, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sure, there might be "outros" in video games, but without WP:VG/RS'es, this is just WP:OR. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 06:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. There isn't anything that I really disagree with in this article, but it's all just original research.  The Fallout series is probably the best known example of a story-based cinematic that describes the results of your adventures, but even that doesn't really turn up anything with a WP:VG/RS search.  Sure, there are a few trivial mentions, but that seems like it.  We can add a definition to the glossary if anyone finds a source. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:45, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as none of this suggests, aside from the currents contents, the necessary improvements and sources to make the article better. SwisterTwister   talk  22:13, 22 April 2016 (UTC)


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