Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everyone's A Wally

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 of the debate was Keep. ¿¡Exir Kamalabadi?!^{Join Esperanza!} 09:28, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Everyone's A Wally

Doesn't meet WP:SOFTWARE. Contested prod. MER-C 04:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. Everyone's A Wally doesn't meet WP:SOFTWARE. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 05:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Starblind's references of notability. Thanks for the research! We should probably put these into the actual article. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 16:23, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 09:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I see nothing wrong in this article. JIP | Talk 11:13, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Week keep - WP:SOFTWARE is not a guideline, merely an in-progress proposal subject to change without notice. Most of the cases where I see it raised, there's also obvious conflict of interest or spam issues, but in this case, we're talking about a historical program for defunct machines, so that's clearly not the case. I think the early days of personal computing are underdocumented (especially on-line, so ghits is not a reliable measure), and of great historical interest, so, while I would prefer to see more assertions of notability and verifiability, I think it would be reasonable to merely mark this as a stub for now. Xtifr _tälk 11:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Mike | Talk 12:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Extremely Strong Keep Very notable game, successful (there were three more sequels!) and widely-reviewed in its day. It was also technologically innovative, as the article notes. There are at least two different current attempts to remake Everyone's A Wally on current systems! For what it's worth, it easily passes WP:SOFTWARE, as it was reviewed in all the relevant magazines of the day, and I still see it now and then in mags like Retro Gamer. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  • If anyone needs further prrof that this passes WP:SOFTWARE, it took me all of maybe 5 minutes to find multiple published reviews of it. Here is one from Zzap!64 magazine. Here's a quote: "...the first arcade adventure to feature multi-character control." And here is one from CRASH (magazine) who call it "...probably the most awaited game of the moment...". And here is an interview with the creators from Sinclair User magazine, which states tht not only did Wally top the sales charts, but "It surpassed our initial projections faster than any other program". There was even a Mike Berry song about it! Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. -- moe.RON ^{talk | done | doing} 22:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• keep per starblind. — brighterorange (talk) 02:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per Starblind. Snurks^TC 02:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• keep this please per starblind it is notable enough for us to include Yuckfoo 02:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as above. --Alan Au 03:27, 25 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.