Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warbears

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The result was delete. Krimpet (talk) 06:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warbears

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Fairly unremarkable flash animation. No case is made for passing WP:WEB and I could only find a passing mention in Der Spiegel. Article is of a in-universe game guide nature and is completely unsourced. MER-C 12:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment -Ahem. www.warbears.com. I would also like to remember most of the online games and communities are owning a wikipedia page. — MrRobot256 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Comment -Jimmy23 (From warbears) [1] That is a link to help against deletion
  • Keep I respect the fact that the Wikipedia staff take their job seriously about keeping Wikipedia clean but i find that deleting this for no apperent reason will anger those who have sacrificed their spare time to keep this to the point, clean of spam and informational at the same time. This Page is sourced with information from the Offical Warbears site and therefore is a credible soure of information. Although we do get some spam from certain individuals we know that this can be easiliy beaten with a upgrade to level 2 security. So we as a whole belive this is a suitable page that has necessary information for those who wish to seek it and those who need guidence and links.I therefore place my support in the effort to keep this page active. Sincerly O==[::::::::> (AShinySword). AShinySword 13:59, 6 May 2007 (UTC)— AShinySword (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Delete if no WP:RS can be found. I did not (yet) do an exhaustive search, but the only news source I found has exactly one paragraph on it [2], which ain't much to build an encyclopedia article from. RTucker 13:59, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Upon further review, the article I found was the exact same one MER-C posted above, so you can save time and ignore my link. :-) RTucker 14:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Hehe, obviously someone didn't look at the actual website listed by MrRobot256. If you looked on there, you'd find all the information needed. Besides, this article is about the actual GAME of warbears, not the warbears themself. It would also be nice if someone made an article on Bedtime City (The name for the warbears community). — Darthwarbear (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Delete. Webcruft, fails WP:WEB for lack of substantial, reliable, independent sources. Sandstein 14:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Warbears Wiki-page is for Warbears game, not for website. Waaaak— Waaaak (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Delete - Thirty seconds on Fox News (for more than half of that, the commentators were talking about different "memes" anyway) and one passing mention in Der Spiegel do not notability make.  ⋐⋑ REDVEЯS 15:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - The site has barely any notability, and this Wiki article reads like a news post on the site itself. It doesn't fit into Wikipedia. There's also the fact that the community has little respect around here, which leads to the wiki page being vandalized quite often.--151.197.61.103 19:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Simply request partial protection. ~MrRobot256
  • Delete - Hell if the article on a well known webcomic got deleted why should this stick around? It's complete fluff and doesn't serve a real purpose. 20:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Please stay on topic. I don't see what's the point with the well known webcomic.
  • Delete - Doesn't pass WP:WEB. The game appeared a little more than a year ago and didn't really gain a huge popularity. The website appeared a few months ago and has no history to report on, and isn't very notable either. Only people who already know the game read the article, which is nothing more than a faq and few trivias accessible from the game, what purpose does it serve? Xfxfxs 03:12, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • I mean, seriously; its ranking on Alexa is somewhere below 180,000.--151.197.169.132 06:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment- For those of you who keep commenting there's no reliable source or WP:RS the information supplied by the creator of Warbears via the forum, news and privet messages the purpose of this page is to gather that information into one easily acsessable place that new folk can reach easily. Those of you are commenting about Spammers, yes we are aware of that problem this can be easily be righted by adding security to the page. Those of you commenting that Warbears isn't popular enough we are a growing community so views will increase. Those of you commenting there isn't any appopriate information if this is the case we shall modify the page to inculde articles like Parental questions, Security and Rules, Links and contacts, Detailed information on the game etc...I hope this answers your questions/statements. AShinySword 06:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment This page should not include parental information. It is not a portal for Warbears. It is not an article on Warbears.com, so the fact that Warbears.com has a low rank should not matter. It has been mentioned all over the internet, played by many people, and has a few reliable sources. Don't delete it. Fix it. 151.197.169.59 10:08, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep -I would like to request Semi-Protection to Warbears article. It would help keeping article away from spam. And then it could be fixed and everybody would be happy, except spammers. EDIT: And, I know that here is also article of Frets on Fire, which is fan-made little game... And nooney is trying to delete it.Fippe 14:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)— Fippe (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • Vandalism (you erroneously call it spam) is not a criterion for deletion, so don't worry about that. Conversely, the existence of another article which you deem similar to Warbears is not a good argument (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS) for keeping the article. Also, this is not the place to request protection against vandalism.--Atlan 15:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Wp:WEB says that notability must be proved before an article can remain. AShinySword should understand that this means that reliable, secondary sources should already have discussed the topic before Wikipedia can have anything to do with it. nadav 00:48, 11 May 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.