Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vortex Rikers

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 merge and redirect. Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:11, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vortex Rikers
The other spacecraft that crashes in some game called Unreal. (The other is Isv Kraan.) Under the limbo bar of notability (unless, of course, you're unreally keen on Unreal). Delete. -- Hoary 02:43, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
 * Merge or keep, no need to apply notability to fancruft. Kappa 03:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, Kappa, are you saying that any fancruft, no matter how trivial, is noteworthy? -- Hoary 03:24, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
 * We should merge or keep any not-completely-trivial fancruft, this is obviously non-trivial to fans of the game. Kappa 03:36, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's my impression that virtually nothing about a given video game is trivial to its own devotees. Of course, the same thing could be said about, say, church architecture; but while the non-architecturally minded might want to check what a clerestory was (and, having found the article, stand a chance of then wanting to read more than the fact that they'd wanted to check), elements of particular video games typically are of no interest whatever to those who don't play them. -- Hoary 04:07, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
 * My impression is that fans have a reasonable limit to what they want to include, given that Wikipedia is not paper. Elements of video games are also useful for people trying to understand the speech and culture of people who play it.
 * Kappa, make up your mind. Do you want to keep the article, or merge it into somewhere else?  You seem to be forgetting again that we are discussing articles not subjects.  Chris talk back 16:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This is votes for deletion, not votes for keeption or mergion. I'd rather leave that decision to someone who's interested in the topic. Kappa 08:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Unreal. &mdash; RJH 03:14, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Unreal as with Isv Kraan. It might be fancruft but it is relevant to Unreal, and Unreal is notable enough for an article, which includes information such as this.  --Fuzzball! (talk) 04:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Of no interest to anyone but fans of the game. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:02, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per WP:FICT. Radiant_* 10:09, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge pr common sense. --Asriel86 18:26, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge detail and delete. Gazpacho 00:50, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable fictional starship. Klonimus 02:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge Key to the game, but not enough info for a breakout article. Chris talk back 16:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * As in the case of Isv Kraan above, merge to Unreal, game trivia, per WP:FICT. Barno 18:55, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, in the sense of adding a sentence to Unreal that goes "The first game opened with the player character, a convict on the crashed Vortex Rikers, finding himself alone on an alien world", or something like that. Awful name for a spaceship, not itself notable in any way.-Ashley Pomeroy 14:17, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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