Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SimCity 5 (working title)

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. Aksi_great (talk) 10:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SimCity 5 (working title)

SimCity 5 (working title) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

All of this is once again speculation (this page was deleted before), Google hits 1,690,000 pages, with more than half being little more than speculation by fans. Also, this page completly lacks sources; just one won't cut it in my optinion. RedPooka 03:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as crystalballery. --Dennisthe2 04:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. MER-C 04:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Crystal balling. Resolute 05:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:CRYSTAL JPG-GR 05:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, without prejudice against recreation once release nears and reliable sources begin to report. WP:CRYSTAL for now though. Seraphimblade 06:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — until good sources can be found for this game. –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) | Review 07:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, still a c.ball article. Keep deleted until the first actual info about the game from EA surfaces. ╫ ２５ ^{◀RingADing▶} 10:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC) ╫
• Delete. Non-confirmed game title. Michaelas10 (Talk) 13:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete crystal ball article, more sources needed. Open poppyseed 17:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete As a former active member of a SimCity community, this is pure speculation. Let WP:NOT reign! Shin'ou's TTV (Futaba|Masago|Kotobuki) 19:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete to much speculation at this point.-- danntm ^T _C 20:52, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete speculation. ReverendG 22:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Sorry if I'm doing this wrong, considering this is my first time posting on, uh, AfD page. But I'd like to ask a clarification... you mentioned Google hits but did you actually checked out Google News regarding new SimCity? I did a search there with filter set to the most recent option and sorting order set to latest on the top and it turns out to be a quite lot of results following that so-called announcement. I do not know if all of those articles are using Gamespot article as source. But even then, you'd think the press conference would've more than one press outlets taking notes there so I doubts Gamespot is the only source for such information. It's possible that this Wikipedia entry failed to receive those "missing" sources. I do not know if this is due to the fact it's still November, the month announcement were made according to GameSpot. So if it would satisfies the need for more than one sources, I would recommend someone find another source. Keep in mind that all other SimCities in the works, i.e. those being developed for DS and mobile platform were already long announced prior to this earnings conference. So what could possibly be other platforms that SimCity would be developed for? It is highly unlikely for them to be developed on any other platforms other than PC. Those seventh-generation video gaming consoles does not seems to be that much suitable for this SimCity, frankly. So, if I am getting this right, all this article needs to avoid qualifying to deletion is simply another source? Google News might provide one for that, with filter and sorting set, of course. Once again, I apologize if I am doing this wrong or something. I am not exactly experienced with AfD page. Thanks in advance. Legion 02:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
  • That was done with General Google, not Google news, where are you at? :P And also, there is only one source because there is only one. An EA exec just said in no more than a sentence or two saying a new game is in the works, and that is certainly not enough for an article. Only one source, and everything else is speculation/cryatallballery, all it says is that it's "in the works", nothing else. By the way, check out WP:DP. :) --RedPooka 04:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
    • 'In the works' is part of the development process, otherwise it wouldn't have been mentioned at all. The original source is EA. Speculation doesn't belong here, but the title is a real project. Robovski 00:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - now that the game has been confirmed by EA we might as well keep it, seeing as an article will eventually have to be made anyway. Martin Leng 16:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Unfortunately that is not how articles are handled, and EA has only said "in development" and that could mean anything, that is not an official confirmation! --RedPooka 17:49, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Wikipedia's mission is to be the encyclopaedia of everything. Yes it is true this is just speculation, but it is speculation based on a real announcement - not just a press release but official information to the share market. This is a much higher level of speculation than a potential film sequel that is 'rumoured'. This is not just rumoured, this is far more than that. Wikipedia should be a place to come to to get an encyclopedic understanding of a topic. If your topic of interest happens to be SimCity 5, then it is appropriate that the concrete information that is available is available on the SimCity 5 page, rather than on some other page where it would not belong. Tonzo 23:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - per WP:CRYSTAL; there is not confirmed information from the publisher regarding the release of the title, only conjecture and projection. --Mhking 00:39, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. PresN 05:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete - very likely this page will be put up again in the near future as SimCity 5 nears completion, however, there's just simply not enough information at the moment to even warrant a stub (perhaps when some screenshots and more press releases are made then we at least know they're more serious about releasing the game). --Rambutaan 01:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Crystal ball tomfoolery. Re-create the article when there's actually something to say on the matter. (A proper announcement should be made some time next year according to my information, after Spore is released.) The Kinslayer 09:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per arguments above. The article can be recreated when more verifiable information exists. —Wrathchild ^(talk) 19:15, 27 November 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.