Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steam Forums

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 (but can be recreated if a substantially differnet and improved version appears). -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steam Forums

Non-notable forum and target of multiple vandals. Original article had little content. --NaconKantari 23:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This is an absolutely terrible article, delete --Untruth 23:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Disparaging article, non-notable forums. --bbatsell | « give me a ring » 23:39, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Steam (content delivery)--nixie 23:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Is anyone likely to search for Steam Forums? Tom Harrison ^Talk 03:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, for now. There seems to be nothing here worth protecting from vandals. --Malthusian (talk) 16:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, despite sockpuppets. Proto t c 17:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as (apparently) notable web forum. 248,577 users is a lot. Some of the historic revisions are better than "for me to poop on". Might need to be semi-protected if kept. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-11 03:07Z
• Keep - This is definitely notable. The Steam Forums are the official forums of Valve Software and cover such games as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike, etc. Cyde Weys _vote^talk 05:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - from the original article it seemed as if it might pass WP:WEB. However, as long as there don't seem to be sufficient editors interested to keep it unvandalized without resorting to protection, and as long as there's nothing more to be protected than a stub, I don't think it's worth keeping. I think I looked at all the edits that might not have been vandalism, and couldn't find any versions of the article longer than a stub ("it exists, it has x users and y posts as of z") that weren't vandalism. Maybe add a note about the forum in wherever is relevant, presumably Steam (content delivery). --Malthusian (talk) 09:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete There seems to be nothing here particularly useful. Delete, and if a new rticle with worthwile content takes it's place, great. If it's deleted and not brought back... so be it. There wasn't much of an article in the first place Edward nz 04:17, 13 January 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.