Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darkonin

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. Johnleemk | Talk 12:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Darkonin

Fantasy kingdom in a MUD, article content is mostly a history of goings-on in the game. Delete, prehaps merge into Dark and Shattered Lands Bjsiders 16:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Most MUDs are in themselves not notable, and their characters and locations even more so. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Holy sweet crap, the subject of that article couldn't be less notable. What's next, a list of levels from Bubsy? -- Kicking222 22:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and Andrew Lenahan. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep While the notablility of Muds and the activities and characters who use them is limited, there are many other articles on Wikipedia that are as notable, if not less so. The World of Warcraft articles alone set a bar that would allow the Muds articles to stay. Muds are a foundation for the internet gaming of today, their history is in a way the history of internet gaming. It is informational and educational to see the in-game history of these Muds, as it shows where large games (such as World of Warcraft and Everquest, both of which have large articles, and articles about in-gmae areas and historys) came from and possibly what where they are going. Gaming on the internet is only going to grow over the next several decades, and articles on Muds offer a vantage point into the beginnings of it all.

Oh, hey "Starblind" ... how is this article any less notable than the well-known and venerated Bionic Bunny or Super Star Wars? Seems to me, maybe you need to check your own pages first....Troft 01:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Warcraft has 5 million players. The typical MUD is lucky to have 100. The history of mudding in general is not sufficient, in my mind, to justify allowing articles like this. If it could be merged into the main article for DSL, that's one thing, but if we start allowing articles like this - summaries of the goings-on of characters in a MUD - how do we justify NOT allowing similar articles for the goings-on of characters in other MUDs? Or worse, in Warcraft? Imagine 5 million subscribers all wanting an encyclopic entry for their guild. It's a path down which I think we ought not tread. Bjsiders 14:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: You pronounced doom on your own article with that last sentence of yours. Those are "well-known and venerated" games, yours does not appear to be. 155.69.5.235 03:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Either merge or totally re-write it to me more encyclopedic. Havok (T/C/c) 19:25, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no claims to notability what so ever. --Eivind^t@c 09:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. JoshuaZ 00:40, 5 June 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.