Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CORPG

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. W.marsh 15:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CORPG

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Article is currently completely unreferenced. Moreover, by the article's admission, the term CORPG has extremely limited use in the industry at best, seemingly limited to Guild Wars and an as-yet unreleased game called Fury. Also note that while the company that produces Guild Wars might use this term to describe its game, it's debatable that the term is widely used anywhere else, with many other sources simply referring to Guild Wars as an MMORPG. So unless the article can produce some verifiable published references to show that the term CORPG is an accepted word in the computer gaming industry, this should probably be deleted as unverified and possibly simply a made-up-phrase used for promotional purposes by Guild Wars marketing. Otherwise you may end up seeing computer games shuffled into Category:CORPGs soon based on an unverified phrase. Dugwiki 23:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Delete as not notable, if it were slightly more notable I'd suggest a merge to an article on massively multiplayer online roleplaying games or to Guild Wars if appropriate. I'm familiar with this concept from Guild Wars but it was the company that made GW who coined this phrase and it doesn't apply to anything else. MLA 09:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Keep, there are some 69,000 google results for CORPG. And unlike what MLA believes it has not only been used to discribe the game Guild Wars. Also this article is covered on other foreign language wikipedias. Mathmo ^Talk 16:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment having looked at the google searcg Mathmo mentions, I'm not further enlightened. There's nothing except references to Guild Wars and other language wikipedias which all only reference Guild Wars themselves. This is just a marketing slogan. MLA 00:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Reply, while I'll expect you are right and it originally came about due to Guild Wars it has however reached a broader range than that. As for a google search, you might find it helps in your search for non guild wars related pages to exclude those pages from the search along with any wikipedia pages. As such here are a few of the ones found [1] [2] [3] . Mathmo ^Talk 01:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NEO. Seems to be a neologism solely used by GuildWars. A redirect might be acceptable. Guy (Help!) 21:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

If this article is deleted, I agree that a redirect to Guild Wars is a good idea since the term originates with that game. I notice that the article does now at least list the references to the official Guild Wars manual and Fury manual, which is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to verify Mathmo's links above, but I notice that one of them is a "player review", which can't be used as a citation. But if one of the other hits he mentioned checks out, and can be added to the article as a valid reference, it would bolster the case for keeping. Dugwiki 17:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete unless reliable third party sources are included. No objection to redirect. Addhoc 23:39, 31 January 2007 (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.