Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orbiter stuff

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 of the debate was delete all. —Cleared as filed. 05:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orbiter stuff

Lots and lots of articles about every fictional place or thing in the game Orbiter (sim). I've listed a dozen or so here:

• Washington (Orbiter sim)
• Tycho Base
• Orbiter (sim) add-on
• World of Colliers
• Lockheed Starclipper (Orbiter sim)
• Von Braun Ferry Rocket (Orbiter sim)
• Baikonur (Orbiter sim)
• Canberra (Orbiter sim)
• Cape Canaveral (Orbiter sim)
• Clavius Base
• Emergency Depot No. 3
• Johnston Atoll Spaceport
• Moscow (Orbiter sim)
• Phobos Base
• Planck Crater Lunar Observatory
• Port Lowell
• Prime Base (Orbiter sim)
• Serenitatis Base
• Sinus Roris Base (Orbiter sim)
• Tchalinko
• Lockheed Starclipper (Orbiter sim add-on) (this was tagged afd by the original nominator, but wasn't listed here —Cryptic (talk) 15:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC))
• World of 2001: A Space Odyssey (this was tagged afd by the original nominator, but wasn't listed here —Cryptic (talk) 15:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC))

There's a bunch more that need to be tagged and linked here in Category:Orbiter (sim), nearly every article in there, as well as several associated templates and a few dozen associated images. Someone's put a lot of work into something that's thoroughly unencyclopedic and has no potential to be so. Wikipedia is not paper, but it's not gamefaqs.com. Night Gyr 10:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete a single concise article on Orbiter (sim) should be sufficient for WP. --Oscarthecat 12:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Merge all this stuff into a single article. Ruby 12:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per above. Eusebeus 14:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge whatever is salvageable into Orbiter (sim), and delete. Robin Johnson 14:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: you cannot merge & delete; under GFDL you need to identify author, so you need to leave redirects. So choose either Merge & redirect or simply delete. Renata 16:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• I vote delete (even though it is pitty that so much work went into this) Renata 16:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the whole lot - Thesquire (talk - contribs) 16:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all and perhaps suggest to the original author(s) that a single article would be appropriate. Gaius Cornelius 16:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable. Merge and redirect at the very least. -Rebelguys2 19:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Oscarthecat. NicM 19:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC).
• Delete everything except for the one main article. Cyde Weys 21:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's the second set:

• Long Duration Exposure Facility (Orbiter sim)
• Shuttle-A
• Shuttle-A2
• Shuttle-PB
• Shuttle-PB Mk2
• Shuttle-PB Mk3
• Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter sim)
• Hubble Space Telescope (Orbiter sim)
• Orbiter (sim) API
• Orbiter (sim) MFD API
• Dragonfly (Orbiter sim)
• DeltaGliderIII
• DeltaGliderII
• Delta-glider
• Deltaglider EX
• Orbiter (sim) standard distribution

A handful of these have extensive content, but they're still not encyclopedia worthy. I tagged three as speedy (those aren't here) because they were only external links, but the two API articles are just a couple of sentences each. It's kind of sad to see that someone put so much work into these, but this info just belongs in the manual or on a site specific to the game. Wikipedia is not a game guide. Night Gyr 22:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete the lot, this is going way too specific. --Agamemnon2 13:37, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete every single one. Wikipedia is not a game guide or a free host. Possible to put relevant information into a single article on the game, and then credit the author on the talk page, which should satisfy the GFDL. Stifle 14:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• I agree to some form of cleanup, but I would say that complete deletion seems too extreme. Why are they unencyclopediatic. --GW_Simulations 19:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge -- and redirect the lot to Orbiter (sim) - Longhair 07:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all. incog 00:19, 31 January 2006 (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.