Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hogwarts - The Prophecy

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. Mailer Diablo 14:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hogwarts - The Prophecy

Google brings back 115 results, but probably padded by unrelated pages due to the popularity of the topic. The original author's only edits are on this page, and the subject seems to be a credit list for a non-notable game. Perhaps CSD/prod would be more suited, but I thought I'd bring it here first. EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 13:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This isn't notable. --Porqin 13:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Hi there,

This is a new page: a work in progress. We are still working on it, and would like it if you don't delete it, at least until we have completed it.

We are a constantly-growing community, and we think that this page could be used to gain more members. This is my reason for creating this page, as well as offering an insight into our game. We think of ourselves a bit like Runescape, which has its own page on here....

--No. 1 Chelsea Fan 14.06, 25 July 2006

• Delete per what Chelsea fan just said. even if it actually does exist, its non-notable, has no players, and the article was posted here to "gain more members"-----> advertising. get rid of it. Benji64 14:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• no players?? We have 201 registered members on our site. Go check it out if you don't believe me.

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If you're gonna delete it, fine, but I never said we have no members. We want it, yes, for adveritising, partly, but secondly, for information on the rpgs that are out there. There are probably people who want to know about harry potter rpgs, and we want to tell them about our one.

--No. 1 Chelsea Fan

• Delete per above: not notable, and as admitted by the article author, advertising. Runescape is notable because it has hundreds of thousands of players. 201 players is not notable. Dark Shikari 14:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - fails WP:WEB. 201 registered members is practically nothing - perhaps if you had a million registered members, I would take a second look. Fabricationary 14:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• The number of members fluctuates, it would be sky high if like Runescape we didn't remove inactive member accounts. Admittedly we do not have a runescape gathering and this article is not solely advertising. The site is celebrating its 3rd birthdya a month from now and that shows it has stood the test of time and even a complete site move and overhaul. This actual point of such an article is to mark the history of the site itself. The article on the history is currently being written so that it is of an acceptable standard for such a prodigious site such as this. We wouldn't want to submit a sub standard finished article.

Seba Nile - 15.45, 25th July 2006

• Comment. Runescape's subscriber numbers are listed at http://mmogchart.com/ as 800,000 active paying subscribers. Comparing this to your tiny online RPG is silly: if your RPG was listed, there'd be a hundred thousand new Wikipedia articles about similarly non-notable web RPGs. Dark Shikari 14:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:WEB and as admitted advertising. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Invent List of non-notable RPGs, then Teleport to List of non-notable RPGs GangstaEB~(penguin logs) 17:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Three years is not a "test of time", even in the internet age. 200 odd members is tiny, compared to any MMO with a modicum of popularity. Wikipedia isn't a place for you to promote your RPG. --ColourBurst 17:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Got it. Online fan spin off. Unless it's specifically endourced by JK Rowling. Ad. -Royalguard11^Talk 18:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete non-notable fan-created RPG per above, fails WP:VAIN spectacularly. -- NORTH ^talk 22:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, so this is one of the best rp boards i have ever been on and I've been on my share. /We want to gain more members so that people will experience what a message board rpg can be like. i've never had a greater experience in my life, and you can check out http://s15.invisionfree.com/HogwartsProphecy/index.php?act=idx and see for yourself, just because we don't have hundreds of thousands of people, there are very few accounts that don't post on a regular basis.

But those are not our main reasons for deciding to create this.  Our main reason is just to put information out there to inform those who may be looking for an RPG to join.

• I'm trying to figure out why you people care so much about this article being deleted. It isn't harming anyone and it helps the people of the site. The site might be small, but to the people on the site, it is important.

• The site itself is not what you might think, a littel group of people in a tiny village in some unknown state. We have members from all over america, england, lebanon, austrailia, europs, asia. Our member number fluxtuate over teh summer which is approaching now. Remember that this is a site aimed at anyone and everyone and seems very popular with the kids. Teenagers come on to express themselves and do a great job at it. Do you want to deprive other teenagers of the same priviledge.

  ~Seba Nile 03.05 27th July (GMT)

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.