Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sim Street

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 01:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sim Street

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Wholly unreferenced with no evidence of notability. Originally {{prod}}ded [1] with: "Questionable notability, no reliable sources", deletion endorsed [2], removed [3] w/o comment. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 22:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, and delete the Sim Street episodes guide as well. No notability has been established. No independent coverage. They both seem to be blow by blow, uncited repositories of copyvio images from http://simstreet.simtv.co.uk/ The whole thing isn't actually a video, but a player created story mixed with screenshots from The Sims placed in comic book fashion. These articles seem to be one big copyright violation because of the usage of the screenshots and the non-summarized plots and character descriptions. --Dual Freq 22:54, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Sim Brother, Crystal Town and Downtownies as well as the other episodes linked from Sim Media. Apparently this is just one part of an effort to create fan site articles for a bunch of non-notable The Sims fan fictions. They are full of copyvio screen caps as well. --Dual Freq 23:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete TV shows using game engines isn't uncommon nor unpopular. Red vs. Blue has its own article and is a popular and notable comedy using the Halo engine. Sim Street is rather new but gaining some attention. However, the aforementioned issues on copyright violations is a major problem that needs attention. If the copyright holders release the images under GFDL then this could potentially remain; but until then, I believe this page should be blanked. --David Andreas 23:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
    • In this case, they are not actually videos, it is a text script of a "show" with screencaps mixed in. Don't these have to have some kind of external coverage from news papers or major blogs to be notable? Seems like this series of articles is either a big copyvio or a spam type attempt to drum up traffic to the site. --Dual Freq 23:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 05:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 05:43, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete this and Sim Street episodes; no evidence of notability. —Psychonaut 20:45, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete see also Downtownies for more of the same. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:26, 26 June 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.