Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PlanetQuake

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled Planetquake.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to keep the article.

Uncertain - I don't know enough about Quake, but it seems like this is not a major website. Burgundavia 22:09, May 28, 2004 (UTC)


 * It definitely needs work, but it's been a major webstie for several years now - turns up about a quarter of a million hits on Google, I vote keep. (203.217.26.143 02:54, 29 May 2004 (UTC))
 * It's a major website, but what use do those website-articles have anyway? Why not simply go to the actual website, instead of looking it up on Wik? Keep. Wyllium 05:52, 2004 May 29 (UTC)
 * Keep, it's a big website that's been around for years, and has spawned all sorts of Planet* spinoffs like PlanetDreamcast. Definitely needs work as an article though. I moved it to PlanetQuake since that's the capitalization the site uses. DopefishJustin (&#12539;&#8704;&#12539;) 00:24, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Popular enough, IMHO - we have articles on towns with tens of inhabitants, and Wikipedia is not a paper anyway. But even if popularity fails, I think an equally important question to ask for a website article is whether it's relevant in the context of some other article. I think PlanetQuake would be relevant to mention in Quake. This article needs to be improved so it explains why PlanetQuake is worth mention, though. Not to draw attention away from the PlanetQuake article, but what would you say about Doomworld? The site is far less popular than PlanetQuake, but should in my opinion be kept also. If you check the history, it was originally a rather vanity-ish article, but I trimmed it down and added information to establish why it's at least mariginally important. I'm sure PlanetQuake can be expanded similarly. Fredrik (talk) 14:08, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Having a page for PlanetQuake is both useless and commercial, neither of which has a place on wiki. The fact that it "spawned all sorts of Planet spinoffs" simply means it is owned by a big company which uses the name for other things. It is absolutely impossible, regardless of your opinion, to come up with a reason to have a page that does nothing but link to another page. Delete it, no discussion, just use logic.