Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Point of Existence (2nd nomination)

http://poe1.pointofexistence.com/POE/PC_Gamer_157.jpg (PC Gamer article)

http://poe1.pointofexistence.com/Prozac/pcgames_article.jpg (PC Games (German) article)

http://www.totalbf2.com/page.php?do=previewspoe (TotalBf2.com previews PoE2)

http://www.pmods.net/ReadArticle.php?IdArt=150 (PMods.net previews PoE2 (French))

That's just a quick list of some recent articles about this modification.

Closure of AfD as "no consensus"

 * Recruiting 'votes': Due to active campaigning by people who want to see this article remain on Wikipedia, the field of debate regarding this article has been badly polluted. Those who conducted this campaigning are doing a tremendous disservice to the community in doing so. AfD is a consensus building mechanism. It is not a popularity contest, or a contest to see how many friends of yours you can get to jump in. If your arguments for retention are powerful enough, people will be convinced. The behavior of those campaigning to get others to indicate support in keeping of this article is completely unacceptable. The link to recruitment efforts provided by User:Unicyclopedia is in no uncertain terms abominable behavior in the effort to build an encyclopedia.


 * Application of WP:SOFTWARE: This was cited in the original nomination for deletion as _the_ reason for deletion. As a later poster in the debate noted, this guideline generally applies to commercial software. In its current state, it does not gracefully translate into evaluative measures for non-commercial software. It should also be noted that this guideline is a proposed guideline and not a current, accepted guideline. I also find the evidence presented showing this article in fact passes WP:SOFTWARE is compelling, in particular this photo of a magazine article on the mod in PC Gamer. This magazine is one of the top magazines in this subject area. An article appearing in this magazine on the mod is highly compelling as satisfying WP:SOFTWARE.


 * Copyrights: This article, in its current form, violates copyright by directly copying content from http://www.pointofexistence.com/story-bfv.php and http://files.bf2s.com/details.php?file=448. This is unacceptable. On this alone, the article could be subject to deletion. This article must address this and remove these copyright violations. You can not simply copy/paste text from a website. I strongly urge the supporters of this article to deal with this copyright issue and remove the violating copy/pasted text post haste. Failure to do this will lead to an uninformed party either gutting the article of the violating text or deleting the article in toto for being a copyright violation.


 * Improvement: This article in its current form could stand substantial improvement. However, this is not a criterion for deletion. Nevertheless, the supporters of this article are urged to improve this article with their knowledge and expertise on this mod, and doing so without violating copyrights as noted above. A single screen-shot from the game that clearly shows the uniqueness of the mod from BF2 would also help.


 * Conclusion: With the above in mind, I am closing this AfD as no consensus. Please note: this does not prevent this article from being nominated for deletion again. However, frivolous re-nominations in the near future will most likely be regarded poorly. This article does need to be improved, and the copyright violations must be addressed immediately. --Durin 13:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)