Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sonic Game Abbreviations

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. — JIP | Talk 18:47, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic Game Abbreviations

Even if cleaned up, and renamed to List of..the hedgehog..., this would likely be gamecruft, although it is not really clear what the criteria for inclusion in the list is from the combination of samples and title David Woolley 00:29, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete This really isn't expandable to much of a useful article or list. People probably wouldn't want to learn new acronyms for such, but if they encounter elsewhere and them and look them up (ie SA2), they'll find they go to the right place or disambiguation. I think that's good enough. Indium 00:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Even if this were better developed it would belong on a fan site. Don't mean to sound cruel. It's probably easier for fans to find there anyway. Durova 07:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• (Assumed Keep) But that doesn't seem to be very nice to make people look for them. --anon
  • Comment IP addreess matches that of article creator, so I assume he meant this to say Keep. - David Woolley 15:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Either the abbreviations themselves should lead to the appropriate content (as with SA2) or to a disambiguation page ... or the content should be merged to Sonic the Hedgehog series. --Metropolitan90 08:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete worthless as is and with no obvious potential to be otherwise. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 14:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect the abbreviations mentioned to the correct articles and delete this. Redirecting to full articles provides much more context and information. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. When I nominated this, it was orphaned. - David Woolley 15:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: I do agree it's not all that useful, but I mainly wrote it so people won't get mixed-up with abbreviations.
  • A better way to incorporate it into existing material would be to mention the abbreviations at the lead of the articles with the full name and create redirects from the abbreviations to the full title. This way it is not only included but also useful. See Wikipedia:Redirect if you want to learn about redirection. Don't be discouraged, it takes time to get used to how Wikipedia works. Keep contributing and ask if you are not sure on how to handle something. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Okay, thanks!
• Delete. Doesn't merit its own article. *drew 12:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
  • You don't have to attack me, drew! I know I'm saying good-bye to my article, but there's no need to attack me. I know it's true I don't really merit this article, but I was kind of new to writing articles. I thought this would be useful for people not knowing abbreviations, but now I know (thanks to Mgm). Besides, I have another article and I merit that one. --anon

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.