Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glitch Pokémon

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 and redirect to Glitches found in the Pokémon video games. No content is being merged, so no need to leave it hanging around in the history when consensus has conclusively said it doesn't belong on Wikipedia (there's a clear consensus to 'straight redirect' or 'delete'). Daniel Bryant 08:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Glitch Pokémon

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I redirected this page to Glitches found in the Pokémon video games with an explanation, and an editor reverted it with no explanation. First off, the article is redundant - the previously mentioned article covers the key information in this article and more. Not only that, but it violates a few things, examples being:

• Wikipedia:Notability: "A topic is notable if it has received significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject."
• WP:NOT: "Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought". Unless there is a reliable source for the majority of information (not a fanpage, and not just for a small amount of info.), it will always violate this.

Thank you. --Teggles 04:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete (I am the nominator) --Teggles 05:05, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Glitches found in the Pokémon video games. If someone reverts it back, request that the redirect be protected. TJ Spyke 05:24, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect per nom. Glitches found in the Pokémon video games already mentions the existence of these glitches and some of their possible results, and there's really no need to catalogue every possible result of triggering these bugs. Zetawoof_(ζ) 06:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect Normally I'd say delete, but seeing that there is already an article about the glitches, this should be merged into/redirected to the glitches article listed above. --Nehrams2020 08:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep it as is! None of this stuff is original thought! Anyone who has a copy of Pokémon Red or Pokemon Blue can pick it up and see the proof for themselves. Also, I did not catalogue EVERY POSSIBLE RESULT of the glitches, merely some of the best-known ones. Also, hardly any of the stuff covered here is covered in Glitches found in the Pokémon video games, apart from the Missingno. stuff. And the external links (and the only proof for what the article states) being fansites isn't that big a deal. This isn't like the whole issue with Serebii.net releasing the names of 4th generation Pokemon, this is different. These fansites are two of the most reliable websites on the internet that you can find with glitch Pokemon coverage. And as I've stated before, this is merely stuff you can play Pokemon Red or Pokemon Blue to find out for yourself. Feats-O-Strength 10:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  • They may be be the most reliable fansites, but the problem is that a fansite isn't reliable. If they are the most reliable websites on the Internet that can have glitch coverage, then it fails Wikipedia:Notability. --Teggles 20:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Even so, as I've stated previously, this kind of stuff doesn't NEED websites confirming it, fansite or otherwise. This kind of stuff one can find for oneself within the games without much difficulty! Feats-O-Strength 12:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Actually, it's a policy on Wikipedia that information needs to be verifiable with secondary sources. See WP:VERIFY. I've just looked at your contributions and a whole part of them seem to be for minor fiction. You'd be better off at a dedicated Wiki if you want to edit things like that (not to be rude). --Teggles 21:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect - page with better title and better information already exists. No need for minutiae of the bugs of one video game. Wikipedia is not a video game guide. (ESkog)^(Talk) 14:54, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect per ESkog. --Phoenix (talk) 17:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Although the title is a reasonable redirect, keeping the history is worthless and dangerous if no content is merged. Since the target for the redirect already covers the topic adequately, merging seems unlikely. Creating a fresh redirect after deletion would be acceptable. Jay32183 00:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete With all due respect to Feats-O-Strength, Glitch Pokemon don't require that much coverage. Likewise, the majority of the Glitch Pokemon article seems to be based on the section of Generation I Glitches from the Glitches found in the Pokémon video games, based on the fact that the posted information by Feats-O-Strength in the article appear substantially similar to this version of the Glitches found in the Pokémon video games article from a day before Feats-O-Strength started the current version of Glitch Pokemon. Nothing to merge, no reason to bother. Unlikely search term, too, since most people don't bother to romanize Pokémon with the é. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ Yell ○ 14:08, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect per above. Sincerely, Thrashmeister {U|T|C} 03:41, 8 May 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.