Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mushroom Nightmare

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. Sango123 00:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mushroom Nightmare

Super Mario Brothers ROM hack. Not Notable. Newspaper98 06:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Michael 08:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable unless there's an super-significant importance to Mario community, which I doubt. -- Jared Hunt July 30, 2006, 10:23 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. --Ed (Edgar181) 11:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete ROM hack. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - Not my area, but we must have criteria for noteability for video game material, no? Wikipedia has criteria for everything else. Perhaps we should be citing the criteria in making this decision. Williamborg (Bill) 15:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
    • We usually keep video games, but ROM hacks are not video games: they're vandalised (or otherwise altered) changes to the game code so that a game will appear differently using an emulator. They're a small subsection of emulation fandom, and not well known among gamers in general. They're not sold anywhere (obviously), and the video game press doesn't review or cover them. If you really want more proof that this is utterly non-notable, it gets 33 unique Google hits and many of them, oddly enough, are random uses unrelated to this ROM hack. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's just a ROM hack. Anyone can make them, and there's no evidence this had a significant impact on any community. If anything, one could say it is non-notable software, but that would be a stretch. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 15:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep It won the two Annual Hack Award Awards at Acmlm's,

http://board.acmlm.org/archive//thread.php?id=9217&ppp=20&page=0#180603 as seen here. And Acmlm's is pretty much the main community in the world of ROM-Hacking. Also, while it's agreed that the main site itself is not-notable, it's because not even I really link to it, it was just thrown in for completeness. Shadic 20:27, 31 July 2006.

• Delete Unfortunatly, inferior awards from something minor are not notable. If it were an award from something major then it would be considered notable. Sonicandtails 04:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Funny, considering how it beat the "Hack of the Year" for the catagories in which the two of them competed against eachother. Also, show me a bigger rom-hacking community that has annual awards. Shadic 22:00, 31 July 2006.

• Delete. They don't exist. And that's the problem; the ROM hacking community just isn't big enough for an article like this to be notable. An article on this is just ridiculous. It's even a stub. To be fair, some ROM hacks are very much notable, and I wouldn't say to delete the Mario Adventure article, or anything. On the other hand, this is no Mario Adventure. Stylish Alastor the Stylish 05:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - it may be a good hack (I haven't played it, so I don't know) but it's certainly not a popular one. As I stated in the Mario Adventure page, few hacks are famous enough to deserve their own page, and this isn't one. Maybe a page could be made for all SMB3 hacks instead. 64.231.193.187 16:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - the Acmlm's Annual Hack Awards are hardly the definitive awards for ROM hacks. This isn't notable enough for it's own page. --Drjayphd 17:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete fails WP:NN Thε Halo ^Θ 22:56, 2 August 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.