Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Isle of Four Winds: Rune War


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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

The Isle of Four Winds: Rune War

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Seems to have received no significant attention beyond the lone review already given in the article. This review is present in the 35 hits on Google as well, but nothing else there seems to be useful to establish notability. Company has no article either, so no obvious redirect target. Fram (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - As well as the review mentioned in the article (which can be read on p. 117 here) the game was also reviewed in Strategy Plus magazine. Two substantial reviews in reliable sources for game makes this a pass for WP:NGAME. FOARP (talk) 13:20, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * 2 sources isn't great for WP:N. Please do not cite an essay (NGAME) to support this. --Izno (talk) 15:25, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I will cite any essay that is relevant - it is for the closer to decide whether they think it persuasive. Two independent sources is evidence that it "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" per WP:GNG and as such this article should be presumed notable. FOARP (talk) 15:38, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I said "not great", not "not evidence that it exists". Why are you adding the confusion by citing an essay? Your argument boils down to WP:GNG, so why not reference the policy/guideline directly that actually supports deletion (or keeping)? The closer can decide if it is persuasive, but the closer can also be reminded that you are citing an essay. So, just don't do it. Save you and the closer the grief of trying to decide whether there is merit. Just as you are allowed to use an essay, I am allowed to call you out for using an essay and choosing not to provide a reference to policy and guidelines to support your case. I did so. --Izno (talk) 16:12, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Because it also clarifies that there is not a closer subject-specific policy guideline similar to WP:NPOL or WP:NBOOK. It is worth remembering that many of the guidelines began life as simple essays and were adopted as guidelines over time through use and improvement. There is nothing wrong in citing an essay if it is the closest thing to a guideline for the subject matter - no-one is going to be confused by doing so. Many essay-level articles are cited at AFD (to name a few commonly-cited ones: WP:TNT, WP:ALLPLOT, and even WP:BLUDGEON) it is fine to say you disagree with them and that they are not accepted policy or guidelines, but there is nothing wrong with citing them as part of your rationale. WP:GNG is so commonly cited that it seems unnecessary often to cite it - though I note you don't have any firm rebuttal to there being two WP:NEWSORG references giving WP:SIGCOV and thus creating a WP:GNG presumption of notability. FOARP (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * If you can't get past 2 sources, you're probably not in presumed territory yet, even if I take on faith that the two sources are more than a paragraph or a sentence each (i.e. that they meet the requirement for in-depth/significant). no-one is going to be confused by doing so is incorrect. People new to Wikipedia are confused by our Byzantine labyrinth all the time, and this is no less true of AFD. I have a strong opinion that we should be simplifying our notability guidelines, and that means reducing the many we have, not encouraging the application of non-guidelines (i.e. adding more). The video game sphere gets/has gotten enough crap from supposed More-Important-Places without adding the bad rationale you supply against deletion with such essay-referencing. I am, however, happy to see that Jimmy rustled up a few more sources for use. --Izno (talk) 01:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Two reviews most definitely can be sufficient for a WP:GNG pass and I am disturbed that someone who has voted in so many AFDs doesn’t know this. The standard is “significant coverage in reliable sources”, that is, “sources” plural, including two. Some of the subject-specific guidelines make this explicit by saying “at least two” or “two or more” (see eg WP:NBOOK). FOARP (talk) 07:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * doesn’t know this and doesn't (always) agree with it after consideration are not the same. Be careful not to assume my knowledge or lack thereof. The GNG sentence of interest is If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list., but it includes a whole lot more than that, and here I quote the particular bullets of interest (with some eliding):


 * When qualified as so, 2 sources doesn't make a good case for notability. Other guidelines are immaterial in this case anyway, and I might suggest they're more likely the result of being written by some old guard more interested in ensuring their pet topic is retained than in providing generalizable rules. You'll note that the GNG itself clearly takes no stance. --Izno (talk) 14:59, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * And one more: of that presumes that you take the stance that industry magazines are sufficiently independent and that the sources provided treat the topic in-depth, the latter of which I granted might be the case and the former of which has a mixed history in almost every industry, no less so in the (video) gaming industry. --Izno (talk) 15:06, 24 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Maybe worth a mention on Mahjong (that probably needs a WP:SPLIT, aside). 2 sources isn't great. List of PC games is also maybe viable given that we have the pair of references even if no blue link. --Izno (talk) 15:25, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Neither Mahjong nor List of PC games are good merges. List of PC Games is a list and thus not a merge target as it is not for content about the subject matter, covering this subject in Mahjong would be obviously WP:UNDUE (similar to covering a specific chess program in Chess). FOARP (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I was not suggesting it would be a merge to List of PC games. Two sources proves reasonable existence, not notability. As for chess, that has many subarticles, including chess engine and chess software, where the article might similarly be appropriate (presumably chess software). --Izno (talk) 01:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: This article should never have been nominated. It already has two reviews from reliable, independent sources: Next Generation and Computer Games Strategy Plus, two of America's top game magazines during the '90s. The company's archived official site lists additional coverage from PC Gamer UK (given this, and the fact that Next Gen often mirrored content from Britain's Edge, it seems likely that other British magazines reviewed it as well) and Game.EXE . It's also been listed at Allgame and it appears in the book ZDNet Software Library 10,000 (1997). I haven't even looked carefully through print magazine PDFs yet, which often show up poorly (if at all) in Google search results. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:32, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It had only the one review when listed, being included in allgame is not a sign of notability (just like being included in allmusic is not a sign of notability), and it doesn't seem to be included in the ZDNet book... Fram (talk) 06:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * My mistake on the Google Books result—it turned up a false positive for "Isle of Four Winds" as that phrase appears in the game Fantasy General, which is featured in the book. Nevertheless, the other points remain. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 07:36, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above comments since there are WP:RS to retain, per WP:PRESERVE and WP:ATD. BOZ (talk) 16:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per ≫ ( Lil- Unique1 ) -{  Talk  }- 18:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)


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