Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hangly-Man

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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 no consensus, defaulted to keep. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 16:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hangly-Man

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A Pac-Man bootleg with very few differences between it and the original game. Fails notability and lacks sources. - Master Bigode from SRK.o//(Talk) (Contribs) 22:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete - fails the notability criteria. Macy (talk) 22:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Pac-Man was the most hacked game out there and Hangly-Man was one of the most significant hacks. Contrary to nom's comments, and as mentioned in article, the differences between Pac-Man and Hangly-Man were significant, as much so as those between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. Brian Waterman, MS, CDP (talk)
  • Of course, I myself say keep. Ditto for what Brian said, above. This was when I first joined Wikipedia, and I didn't think to use the various emulation and "museum" sites that had information on it as sources. I remember one site I wanted to use was down. This was like the first new article I ever created, and also one of my first contributions. So sorry about that. Here are the sources:

CAESAR
Killer List of Video Games
Video Game Museum[1]
Eric B (talk) 21:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC) article creator

I think it's a bit more than minor. It seemed to spark off the wave of hacks that brought us classics like Ms. PacMan. (though Piranha might have been slightly earlier, IIRC). At one point, it seemed all of the PacMan machines in NYC had been converted to this game. (this was right before Ms. came out as the smash "official" sequel). I think the reason I made it a separate article in the first place was because the main PacMan article was already so full. This is notable in its own right. Eric B (talk) 14:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge into Pac-Man clones. The article as it stands at the moment I think is breaching WP:WEIGHT. If Eric B can find further sourcing to support the article I might be persuaded otherwise, but for the moment I think that it would work better as a section in the article on clones. --Gazimoff (talk) 23:51, 6 April 2008 (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.