Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Penny Arcade Forums

Penny Arcade Forums was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete the article.


 * Penny Arcade may be all right, but its forums all that notable and the article is (currently) full of POV garbage made by people (presumably members of the forum) trolling each other. Delete, redirect to Penny Arcade. - Fennec (&#12399;&#12373;&#12400;&#12367;&#12398;&#12365;&#12388;&#12397;) 00:11, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * An anonymous editor says by way of edit conflict: wakka wakka wakka 
 * An anonymous editor edits my post: (presumably members of the forum*hurr dee hurrr*) - Fennec (&#12399;&#12373;&#12400;&#12367;&#12398;&#12365;&#12388;&#12397;) 18:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE This page should be merged into the main Penny Arcade page. Its not that interesting or encylopedic, and is prone to vandalism from petty forum politics/trolling (is there a difference?).   I'd suggest deleting this page and creating a section on the forum on the Penny Arcade page. --Tezkah
 * If the article is too prone to vandalism to remain, moving content to the "Penny Arcade" page will no doubt bring the vandalism there. No opinion on keep/delete "Penny Arcade Forums" page, oppose suggested merge with Penny Arcade page. BTW, please note that "Penny Arcade" article at present doesn't seem to even mention "Penny Arcade Forums" or link there, perhaps it's not relevent enough to mention? -- Infrogmation 00:22, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is an encylopedia not a forum listing. Norman Rogers 00:17, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * delete, delete, delete! Move the essentials to Penny Arcade, but my lord, what is that list of usernames doing there?  Fishal 00:26, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Redirecting Penny Arcade Forums to Penny Arcade would be like redirecting Kurt Cobain to shotguns. This is nothing but a senseless grudge by a former PA forumer who got kicked off and is now posting at a far inferior forums. (This is User:68.230.12.52. Note: Anonymous votes are usually not counted. Register and join us! -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:34, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC))
 * Delete. Looks like a couple of my forumers got carried away >_<. I don't know why you think it's a grudge post, the article looks like a fairly up-to-date and accurate summary of the forums apart from the in-joke nonsense under 'DD'. A mention of the forums in the Penny Arcade entry might be nice, though.--The Cat 00:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * It was worse when I listed it for deletion, methinks. And yes, definitely mention in the Penny Arcade entry. -Fennec (&#12399;&#12373;&#12400;&#12367;&#12398;&#12365;&#12388;&#12397;) 18:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE what could have been a pretty informative entry got ruined by a bunch of people who got carried away and ruined everything, thus proving once again why we can't have nice things. Red Machine D
 * I just fixed some vandalism by 66.216.217.11 here. Tezkah
 * Delete. The list of forums reads like the list of forums at every other message board, and a list of forums at a message board is not terribly encyclopedic. If I hadn't heard of Penny Arcade, this article would read like vanity/self-promotion. The fact that I have heard of Penny Arcade doesn't change the fact that any significance that the forums have (which, I suspect, isn't much&mdash;a message board needs to be fairly remarkable before it deserves an article, and I don't see what makes this one unique) could be mentioned in the Penny Arcade article. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:34, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: We're not a web guide in the first place. Secondly, though, we are absolutely not a board forum.  This amounts to vanity.  I'm sure you folks have a good time there, but you're not, under any circumstances, an encyclopedic entity.  Geogre 01:35, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing here to distinguish it from a gazillion other forums. Gamaliel 01:59, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Not inherently notable.  -Sean Curtin 03:03, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia, your battered guide to unimportant Internet forums. Ashibaka &#9998; 05:24, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. We are not Yellow Pages for Internet fora. jni 08:07, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. For all the reasons noted above. Average Earthman 10:06, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete without redirect. Penny Arcade already has its own article. There's no need for another on the articles. --Improv 15:07, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge essentials and redirect. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  21:20, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. PA already has its own article; the forums aren't really notable independently of it.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 04:28, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 09:42, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a web guide. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 02:41, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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