Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mega Man weapons

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. Wickethewok 14:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mega Man weapons

Essentially a game guide, and perhaps of importance only to a small population of enthusiastic fans of the subject in question. Combination 15:15, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. -- moe.RON ^{talk | done | doing} 23:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

This article does not function as a game guide, if only because the information contained in it is inapplicable to the games. It is a article on the technical specifications of the weapons used in the game, which are actually un-selectable for most of the games, and more of a storyline concern than any kind of hints page.

As for having less citations than normal, this is because the information for the weapons is mostly contained in the japanese sourcebooks and in-game dialogue/captions.128.211.254.142 16:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• delete total fancruft. wikipedia is not a gaming guide. DesertSky85451 17:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge - I would say to keep it and turn the stuff that would be from a game guide into actual encyclopedic information. It really doesn't look that much like a game guide to me. It doesn't seem bad to keep and article for the main weapons of a well selling series of games (like the Zelda article). Or the info could just be merged to the specific character or game articles. Nemu 18:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- United961 19:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with Mega Man article. --ASDFGHJKL 21:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• STRONG KEEP. Way too large to merge with the main article. There are dozens of Mega Man articles- killing this article would cause all the info to spread out over many many articles. This nom doesn't make any sense... Also, this article is currently a Good Article, which would be difficult to obtain if the article was non notable, right? --- RockMFR 22:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment No, it's not at all difficult to get a Good Article rating: GA ratings require only two people, one to nominate the article and the other to review it and decide whether it meets the criteria or not. There is no vote and there are no formal restrictions on who is allowed to review articles. — Haeleth Talk 11:32, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Into parent. · XP · 22:45, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as WP:NOT a game guide. Too much content for a merge, and most content would have to be totally rewritten to conform to WP:WAF anyway. Sandstein 16:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• STRONG KEEPIn what way is it a game guide? Absolutely none of the information is applicable to the games! It's pure story information, that at most indicates that different characters hae different methods of fighting. It could be made shorter by removing the extra weapons of the same type (the sabers, specifically), though.
  • Comment The parts of the article like the MMBN and ZX sections can be taken as game guides, but the info can easily be removed or rewritten. It doesn't seem like a good reason to delete the article. Nemu 01:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this mess. Nothing here is verifiable; it's all just interpretation and supposition and speculation and sometimes fanon based on direct observation of the games themselves, with game guide content (the ZX and Battle Network stuff) added for flavor. You can tell from the cited sources; they're all GameFAQs or fanpages. A yeoman's job was done merging awful stubs into this mess, but there's nothing here to save or worth saving. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Long and does not meet critera Cs california 06:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• STRONG DELETE This is a huge amount of cruft. Look, I'm a MM fan, too, but can't we just put a link to MMHQ or something at the bottom of the Mega Man page instead of having a gigantic article about ultra-specific obscure game storyline information? Also, I'm confused at some of the arguments here. Nemu, are you saying that the only useful stuff on the page should be deleted?TheWarlock 19:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply - No, I'm saying to just rewrite or remove the game guide type of info. I really think there should be some sort of limit to the whole verifiability and notability guidelines, or any sort of fictional information beyond the main work and absolute main character should all be deleted. Nemu 19:28, 17 October 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.