Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weapons of Gears of War


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. BJ Talk 00:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Weapons of Gears of War

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Despite the presence of secondary sources, the bulk of the descriptions of these weapons are written as game guide material and are not appropriate for WP. Those weapons that have been shown to be notable outside of the exact gun mechanics inside the game (such as the Lancer) should be merged to Gears of War. (I believe there already was a Gears of War weapon list that was deleted about a year ago, but I don't believe this can be speedied as I cannot find where that list went to easily.) M ASEM 13:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 13:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Very little here is of any value outwith in-universe or gameguide settings. The sources are all of that nature. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is mostly WP:GAMEGUIDE information. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 *  Redirect Delete As said, this is mostly gameguide content. It might have minimal real-world information which can be added into Gears of War if needs be—but otherwise this just flies in the face of WP:NOT and WP:VGSCOPE as unsuitable material. Once the gameguide content is purged from the article, there wouldn't be enough left to warrant an independent article. In any case, this needs to be removed, although a transwiki may be prudent. -- Sabre (talk) 18:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a game guide. If there is an appropriate specialist wiki, it could be transferred there. Stifle (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note. Previous AfD here: Articles for deletion/Gears of War Weapons List. This article has apparently been modified somewhat from the version deleted at that time. Deor (talk) 19:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to StrategyWiki per Stifle's recommendation. Note that if the new version of the article is even slightly different than the first version, G4 criteria for speedy deletion cannot apply. MuZemike (talk) 19:50, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * "Note that if the new version of the article is even slightly different than the first version, G4 criteria for speedy deletion cannot apply" is not strictly speaking correct. G4 says that a new version is speediable if it is "substantially identical to the deleted version and […] any changes in the recreated page do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted." However, no one's proposing that this article be speedied, as near as I can tell. Deor (talk) 20:44, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The StrategyWiki page has very similar information as this article, so Transwikiing to StrategyWiki would not help here. MuZemike (talk) 18:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and delete: as a clear violation of WP:VGSCOPE. Wikipedia is not a strategy guide where we list every detail of every weapon. When covering a fictional world, we only provide a WP:CONCISEPLOT. Randomran (talk) 21:48, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete — a clearly inappropriate article per WP:VGSCOPE. The material in the article is mostly game guide information. sephiroth bcr  ( converse ) 04:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete; This not what Wikipedia is for. &mdash; Coren (talk) 04:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete waaaaay too specific. Let's find a sister project and transwiki if at all possible. Guy (Help!) 11:38, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and delete: as per per WP:VGSCOPE--SkyWalker (talk) 17:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.