Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metal guard speak

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 delete. AmiDaniel (talk) 09:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metal guard speak

Subject is a forum game played on a single forum. Only linked to by a redirect page and the MGS disambiguation page. (There was a reference on forum game, which I've deleted as part of an overall trimming of the article.) Previously listed for WP:PROD by Ashibaka but de-tagged, so I'm putting it here. æle ✆ 2006-06-07t22:59z

• Delete non-notable GassyGuy 23:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Google returns only 11 results. Kalani ^[talk] 23:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. -- Shizane ^talk_contribs 00:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

What do you recommend I do to save this page? --Stripedtiger 05:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The problem is not with the content itself, but with the subject matter. Wikipedia has guidelines on the notability or importance of certain topics, and a forum game from a single forum unfortunately does not meet these criteria. æle ✆ 2006-06-08t23:24z

• Delete Very, very non-notable. -- Kicking222 00:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

According to the guidlines, it is notable.

An article is "important" enough to be included in Wikipedia if any one of the following is true:

1. There is evidence that a reasonable number of people are, were or might be concurrently interested in the subject (eg. it is at least well-known in a community).
2. It is an expansion (longer than a stub) upon an established subject.
3. Discussion on the article's talk page establishes its importance.

If an article is "important" according to the above then there's no reason to delete it on the basis of it being:

1. of insufficient importance, fame or relevance, or
2. currently small or a stub, or
3. obscure. (Detailed obscure topics hurt no-one because it's hard to find them by accident, and Wikipedia isn't paper.) --Stripedtiger 08:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, my house is a community, and a reasonable number of people in it are interested in my dog (both of us, three if you count the dog). Therefore, a literalist reading of (1) above says my dog is notable. Therefore, a literal reading of (1) is a very silly thing to do. -- GWO
• Delete, recommend GWO write an interesting article about games he plays with his dog Ashibaka tock 22:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  • So that makes five of us interested in the dog? Hm.... æle ✆ 2006-06-10t20:18z
    • OK. I confess. I don't actually have a dog. It's a gedanken experiment pet, like Schrodinger's Cat but with a longer life expectancy. But we do look after my fiance's mother's dog from time to time (only occasionally putting it in a box with a quantum mechanical poison dispenser). -- GWO

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.