Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ (3rd nomination)

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

The result of the discussion was  Keep - as an archive, even if unneeded as an active page. Wily D 07:49, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ


Previous MfDs: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ (2nd nomination)

Was kept back in 2008 with many proponents of keeping it arguing that it would be useful until the game was released in all regions. Brawl has available everywhere for years now, the information present in this FAQ doesn't seem useful any longer, as it either states things already very apparent to players of the game (myself being one of them), such as Giga Bowser being Bowser's Final Smash, ZSS being a separate character from Samus, what assist trophies are, etc. The rest seems to deal with avoiding speculation, which, needless to say, is all but useless at this point. Even some of those arguing that this should be kept back in 2008 agreed that it should be deleted after the North American release. CtP (t • c) 16:50, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Replace with text saying that it's out of date if only to preserve its [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Super_Smash_Bros._Brawl/FAQ&diff=508957387&oldid=88553616 significant page history] of 327 edits by 90 users (including the nominator in this discussion). It obviously used to be very, very useful. Graham 87 04:27, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * As Graham says, we typically consider any productive input to talkspace to be worthy of archival for future reference. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:36, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Archive - Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl currently has a template at the top: "Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32." Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ should be added to that string as "Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ (2008-2009)" and the transclusion on "Talk:Super Smash Bros. Brawl" removed.  Template:Archives has a list parameter that I thought would add "Super Smash Bros. Brawl/FAQ (2008-2009) to the Archives' string, but it didn't. In any event, this is what should happen. Someone knowing how to do it can be WP:BOLD and make the change. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:12, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Archive as per Uzma Gamal. The page was quite useful (as noted by Graham); however, it doesn't seem to be so any more, with the last edit (substantive or otherwise) coming almost two and a half years ago. In a vacuum, I might consider deletion, but, in this case, precedent for Talk:Super_Smash_Bros._Brawl seems to heavily favor archival of old material (as is commonplace); given the lengthy archives (some of which material is seven years old!), archiving the FAQ seems to be a perfect solution, as it would remove the page from active circulation and conform to well-established situational precedent. Ourai  тʃс 21:34, 25 August 2012 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.