Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Digital Paint: Paintball 2

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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. Articles must demonstrate notability through coverage in third party sources. Also see Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions. Eluchil404 23:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Digital Paint: Paintball 2

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I've been struggling to find good independent references for this game, and I'm concerned that most of the exsiting references are from a forum. My searches have found some download sites and press releases on sites like Planet Quake and Mod DB, but nothing that would satisfy WP:N. Marasmusine 13:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete doesn't appear to be notable at all. Miremare 16:46, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This article doesn't have any reliable, third party sources. Icestorm815 19:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The game is on SourceForge as "Digital Paint Paintball 2" with activity percentile 98.26 and a rank in the 3000s. Check out the download page with downloads/day nearing 1000. 69.234.20.127 20:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The game is widely played by a large community, and is notable in that it is one of the few Quake 2 Mods with a somewhat large fanbase. Steeb 23:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete due to failing WP:N, no reliable sources. 86.137.238.48 11:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The game has a solid following worldwide, receives over 1000 downloads daily from sourceforge.net alone, has aired on television, and is still being supported and worked on after almost 10 years. --71.75.7.87 06:18, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Downloads, popularity and longevity are irrelevant (are any of the keepers looking at WP:N?), but the television apearance might be enough to support notability. Can you provide more details? Marasmusine 07:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, let's take a look at some of the other games listed on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena - no references listed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_II - Some engine modification, a quote from a developer on a gaming site, and a blog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake - no references listed. And those are popular, commercially published games. Add in some of the free/open-sourced games, and I think the Paintball2 article is in a lot better state than a large number of game articles that are not marked for deletion as far as references go. I'll see if I can find any more information on the television appearance, but that happened some time ago and may not have any readily available documentation/history. --24.199.129.138 23:10, 28 September 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.