Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PlayStation 3 launch

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 no consensus - merging can be discussed on the article's talk page. --Coredesat 21:18, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PlayStation 3 launch

PlayStation 3 launch (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

As per the reasons why Wii launch and Xbox 360 launch need to go: better suited for a video game wiki. Just because it's a recent launch, doesn't make it more notable for staying here. Relevant information should be put on the PlayStation 3 article (if it's not listed already). Also: all 3 of these launch articles probably should be grouped together in an AFD, since they are similar articles. RobJ1981 01:00, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. For PlayStation 3 launch: merge to PlayStation 3; for Wii launch: merge to Wii; for Xbox 360 launch: merge to Xbox 360. Bigtop 03:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep for now...Merge. Most of the info seems to already be in PlayStation 3; unless there's a need for a few more paragraphs, it's not long enough that it distracts from the PS3 page. Same comments for Wii,etc. per discussion below... event not done and PS3 is already too long - grubber 06:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Bigtop's suggestion. --Candy-Panda 07:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Bigtop  Tuvok^^{Talk|Desk|Contribs}  08:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, as another nominator said themselves "a launch is a big deal". Add onto that this is one of the biggest launches of last year, you get an article that has had massive news coverage and is highly notabile. There is a already a section on the PlayStation 3 page, with a link to PlayStation 3 launch as the main article. Naturally the three newest would have articles about it, while older ones were launched in the early days of wikipedia (or even, long long before wikipedia existed). Thus this is just one reason why claiming "older consoles don't have and article for launch and thus this one shouldn't either" is not an argument at all. Mathmo ^Talk 08:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep'. While merge is the obvious solution, the parent article has grown to a very large size, and has a section for launch that is not as long as this article. This is a valid reason for a separate article existing. —siroχo 09:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

  The two article have nearly identical text; the tables are differnet, but I'm not sure that justifies a whole new article - grubber 10:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

  This is rather an indication the articles were recently split, and the PlayStation 3 section needs to be pruned down with most of the content being merged into PlayStation 3 launch. PlayStation 3 is already very large, needs to be made smaller not larger as you are saying. See Wikipedia:Article size. Mathmo ^Talk 13:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

  Two issues I think we both agree on: the PS3 page doesn't need to become longer; if the two are going to be identical, then one or the other needs to change. Since the PS3 launch isn't even complete yet (lots of stuff happening in March), there is a chance the article could be improved and lengthened. Perhaps we could wait and see what else there is to say about it and hold off a merge/delete until then. - grubber 17:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy Merge Should be merged into Playstation3. Tellyaddict 12:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge useful information, certianly notable -- Selmo ^(talk) 17:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and merge the other "launch" articles as well. P.B. Pilhet / Talk 20:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge All three articles into one as "7th generation console launch. SYSS Mouse 22:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment, not sure if any of them called themselves "7th generation" and I'm fairly sure not all of them did. Plus although they are all roughly of the same "generation" (remember another problem is this holds certain POV problems) their launch dates were all at quite significantly different times to each other. Mathmo ^Talk 16:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep per precedent set by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wii launch. --- RockMFR 21:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and revamp Too big to merge, but lack of sources somewhat disturbing. Unless we want to make a "7th generation launches" article, I think that'd work too. -Ryanbomber 16:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep although this article may need a bit of work, the Playstation 3 launch was by itself the subject of dozens of major media pieces, making it easily notable enough for its own article. An agglomeration of launches for Xbox360/Wii/Playstation 3 is unnecessarily arbitrary, especially considering that the 360 was released a year earlier. The article for Playstation 3 is already large enough that children articles such as this are warranted. — brighterorange (talk) 21:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep This was a significant news story. The things people did to get one on launch day were all over the news. Joelon 22:29, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, notable, much to say. Everyking 06:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• MERGE!!!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.86.39.169 (talk • contribs).
• Keep it up In the United States the PS3 launch came with a minor crime wave. There is an interesting article in that, and this would be the header page to put it in. Normalphil 05:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
• merge and cleanup--Hu12 07:19, 9 February 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.