Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decline of Video Gaming (second nomination)

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, as arguments based on policy (verifiability) trump assertions that the series is 'popular' with nothing to back this claim up (Google searches are not reliable third-party coverage). --Sam Blanning^(talk) 19:16, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Decline of Video Gaming

Although the film series is very popular within the flash and video game community, it fails Wikipedia's inclusion critera for web content miserably. It also lacks mainstream media coverage and its only reference is to its own website. LBMixPro ^{<Speak|on|it!>} 20:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment. This was nominated a few months ago and the result of the discussion was keep. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 23:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Strong Keep. Notable flash series. Popular outside Newgrounds. RMS Oceanic 15:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

So was Arfenhouse, and that was deleted for the same reasons --LBMixPro ^{<Speak|on|it!>} 19:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep if 30,000 Google hits are sufficient. :) Dlohcierekim 01:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - Of those, around 330 of them are unique (which isn't all that bad). But straight google figures can be misleading if they're hosted on portals like newgrounds which perpertuates the links on every page. - Hahnchen 20:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

But are they reliable sources?If so, cite them and save the article.--LBMixPro ^{<Speak|on|it!>} 19:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 00:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - The reason this is nominated again and again is that it has zero external sources and that a whole whole lot of the article is subtrivial crap. - Hahnchen 20:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep A very popular and notable flash cartoon series. -User:Falco1029
• Delete per WP:V, which requires "credible, third-party sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." After more than six months, this article has yet to be cited with even one third-party source. Verifiablity, unlike notability, is completely non-negotiable. --Satori Son 21:06, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete for failing WP:WEB and WP:V. Add one external, verifiable & reliable source including some sort of non-trivial media coverage and I'll reconsider. -- Scientizzle 22:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom.--Peta 09:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)