Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Variations on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game


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The result was   Delete. Fram (talk) 12:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Variations on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game

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Unwanted fork of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Made up. As far as Wikipedia versions are concerned: self-referential and already covered by Six degrees of Wikipedia and four similar articles. See also numerous previous AfDs listed here. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 00:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The reason I created the article is because the Wikipedians on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon discussion page said that there should be a separate page for Six Degree variations. As for the "made up" claim, variations on games appear to be a fairly standard Wikipedia practice. For example, the card game, Spades has many variations listed including; game variations, bidding variations, gameplay variations, scoring variations, trump variations, and total number of players variations. Somebody must have made up all of those variations - but that doesn't make them any less valid in the context of the game. Unfortunately, I did not find any of the other variation pages until it was mentioned here. When I searched for Six Degrees of Wikipedia it redirected me to the Kevin Bacon page. I'm all for consolidating the pages as they make sense. What is the best way to do that? --Bnbalestri (talk) 02:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete As per the nominator's cogent commentary. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete - Per all that has been said so far.  a s e nine  say what?  04:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's see. Wikipedia variations - drop, not notable outside Wikipedia. "Non-actor variation" - the goal is basically for one to compute one's Bacon number, and the example violates the rules anyway (the step is "played in a movie with", not "knows"); drop as redundant. "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon's Bed" - might deserve a brief mention in the main article. "Non-film, non-actor variations" - again, drop as a redundant repetition of the previous variant. Verdict: the article is unsalvageable in this form; get rid of it one way or other. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 11:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Stifle (talk) 19:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


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