Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mickey McMurray

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 all but LASER. Johnleemk | Talk 05:33, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mickey McMurray, Cyberdog Castle, Steven Harris, LASER (emulator)

NN-bio of a person whose sole claim to fame is a company and an obscure BBS door game, which got deleted (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Society of the Eternal Rulers). Also included in this nomination are his company, another developer in the company, and their product. howcheng {chat} 17:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Mike _{(T C)} 17:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. PJM 17:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep for these reasons:
  • 22,500 Google Results
  • simulates discrete circutry games which MAME does not. Pong Doubles is not simulated by any other emulator other than LASER.
  • one of the few multiple arcade emulators that has been ported to many different systems. mahojohn 22:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Is that for all articles or just LASER (emulator)? howcheng {chat} 00:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. The guidelines at Wikipedia:Notability (software) are still in the proposal stage. Strongly suggest postponing this AfD until consensus is reached; the place of historical software and particularly obsolete software under emulation is currently under some modest debate. -Ikkyu2 05:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per PJM. I note that this should have been closed, not relisted: three deletes and one keep. Stifle 00:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all except LASER (emulator), which should be kept for notability. I fully expected this to be a full delete, but I was surprised at the number of Google hits of the specific phrase "Little Arcade System Emulator". I should also point out that as far as I can tell, the nominator is incorrect and LASER is *not* a product of Cyberdog Castle.
• Keep LASER (emulator) and Steven Harris. LASER is notable for the reasons listed above, and Steven Harris is a pioneer in independent Dreamcast development. His nick ss_teven gets 796 hits on google. MetaFox 14:54, 1 February 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.