Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Fox AX

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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 00:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Fox AX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_AX should be deleted. Star Fox Armada was always going to be a GameCube game. Even the articles at the bottom of the page corroborate this. The article offers no proof that there was ever going to be a star fox AX arcade game. They created the name Star Fox AX by stealing it from F-Zero AX. The poster shown as game art was merely an early version of Star Fox Assault for the GameCube, formerly known as Star Fox Armada. The only warrant that this was a arcade game was that it was worked on by Nintendo and Namco, however, Namco's flight sim development team, famous for their work on the Ace Combat series, were always developing this as a GameCube title. Thus, Star Fox AX never existed except in the mind of the persyn who created this Wikipedia page. Some info may be merged with the Star Fox Assault page but it is likely to be redundant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SnowflakePillow (talk • contribs) 20:29, February 19, 2006

• Keep. See talk page. Thunderbrand 02:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. What Thunderbrand said, one of the links does confirm an arcade Star Fox game was being made. At the worst, the title should be changed to "Star Fox (arcade)" since I have seen no proof that "Star Fox AX" was an official name for the game. -- VederJuda 02:45, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete article on something that never happened. Guy 10:27, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No vaporware articles --Ruby 14:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
  • If there are no vaporware articles, then why is there an Indrema Phantom article? -- VederJuda 14:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• • Because I'm a busy girl and there's only so many hours in a day. --Ruby 16:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as prediction. BrianGCrawfordMA 14:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per VederJuda. -- Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Per Guy Avi 16:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: We have articles for movies, games, and books which are announced. Are we just going to delete the ones for things that never happen? Most nintendo games that got to the stage of being announced are notable. Article contains interesting information, at least in my opinion. Star Fox 2, also unreleased, is also notable. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 21:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• That is argument by assertion. How can something which does not exist be notable? Guy 22:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, Planet X and Global cooling are now generally agreed to have not materialized, yet both are notable, so that's "How ... something which does not exist [can] be notable". If it was notable in anticipation, it's still notable in causing the notable anticipation. --AySz88^-^ 22:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not notable Ncsaint 23:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, if renamed. Doesn't appear to be a hoax. We have many articles on unreleased games. I'm kind of teetering on whether this will ever get enough verifiable material, but I say we let this live and if the article won't grow much it can be then be merged. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 00:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, with the important words being "announced but never released." --Jay(Reply) 00:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This was a real product in development and is important to the Star Fox series. This project should also be mentioned in the Triforce (arcade system board) article, I'm a little surprised it isn't yet. --Pagrashtak 04:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment is anyone who is not a fan of the star fox series in favor of keeping this article? Ncsaint 22:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I am a gigantic fan of the Star Fox series, but there is honestly no good proof that this game ever existed. The text of the entry is just generic stuff about the Triforce project. This game was, at best, thought about momentarily by Nintendo. It never got started; it is nowhere near Star Fox 2, and I remain convinced that it never existed. It should not be listed in the Triforce article either, because there is only one sentence anywhere on the entire internet to support its existence, and it was probably just a misunderstanding about Star Fox Assault (formerly Armada) for the GameCube.SnowflakePillow 04:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment This IGN article cited seems to spring from a misunderstanding. Namco got the rights to Star Fox, but not for an arcade game. I can concede that perhaps the Star Fox Assault article could use a tiny footnote saying it may have begun as an arcade game on triforce hardware, but the name "Star Fox AX" certainly has no basis. Most of this article is mere summary discussing Triforce hardware, and there is only one sentence of "proof" from a conjecturing IGN article. There are a bunch more articles, but all that I found cited the IGN article as their basis for their outlandish extrapolations. I move that this article become a tiny footnote in Star Fox Assault so that true Star Fox fans like myself aren't worried that they somehow missed a game. Understand that my dislike for this article doesn't come from the fact that the game was never released; the problem is that unlike Star Fox 2 we have absolutely no information about it, so it just wastes space on Wikipedia. SnowflakePillow 04:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as crystal-ballism, vapourware, non-notable. Take your pick. Ifnord 16:53, 25 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.