Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avatar (video games)

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 Merge to Avatar (icon) and possibly rename the target article. Tikiwont (talk) 09:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avatar (video games)

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WP:NOT#DICT Arx Fortis (talk) 05:50, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

This is an important concept in video games... I may be missing the difference between a stub and a dictionary definition. We seem to delete one and not the other? The Audient Void (talk) 05:53, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with User:The Audient Void, this is an important game concept, and this is a reasonable starter stub. Keep.-gadfium 05:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Strike that, merge into Avatar (icon). I knew we probably had an article on this already.-gadfium 06:01, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Ugh... what a terrible name for it, though. There's a huge difference between the term as Stephenson uses it and as a little user icon... better, I'd think, to separate material out from the icon article into the article on video game avatars... The Audient Void (talk) 06:03, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

• Merge Into Avatar (icon) as stated by gadfium, and per nom. Jmlk17 06:11, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge: Per the above. No need for a separate article. - Rjd0060 (talk) 06:33, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge As above.Hammer1980·^talk 10:24, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per above. Also bear in mind we have a player character article, so between them the concept is covered in WP.Someone another (talk) 11:45, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someone another (talk) 11:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy redirect to Avatar (icon): (can we do that?) The two articles cover the same topic, so it's basically a dupe. eaolson (talk) 15:30, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to playable character. It shouldn't go to Avatar (icon) as they aren't really the same thing even though they have the same name. - Koweja (talk) 17:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect: The existing content is completely covered in more detail at Avatar (icon). Anomie⚔ 23:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Avatar (icon) but consider renaming the target article to something people might actually search for; that's probably why this stub was created in the first place. No one thinks to look under "icon" and "icon" is an outdated term, anyway. This is a major concept in Internet gaming and virtual world interaction. Perhaps a renaming to "Avatar (Internet)" might be more appropriate for the main, target article. 23skidoo (talk) 03:51, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect. There's barely any text to merge. Axl (talk) 18:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Avatar (icon), although I think we can create a better title than that for this article per 23skidoo's idea. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 19:37, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge or Redirect It has so little infomation, so it should be merged and redirected to Avatar (icon). 1yodsyo1 16:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1yodsyo1 (talk • contribs)

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.