Talk:Road Kings

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[edit] Deletion tag removed

I removed the proposal for deletion. The reason given was: Too short even for stub and notability questionable.

Both of these tests falls short, IMO. First, I'm not familiar with something that is "too short for stub". WP:Stub states: "A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information." This stub article fits that defintion well, as what Road Kings is is clear, there is some useful information provided by the infobox, and there is a link to further information that either readers or future editors can use.

The notability question I believe also fails. Pinball is a well-established part of at least American culture (some other countries too, but not as much from all I know). For that reason, I personally believe that any pinball machine that was produced enough for the general public to play qualifies as notable. But this machine is more notable than your average machine picked at random. Williams was the most successful of the manufacturers around the time this game was released, and continued to be up until their closure in 1999. It was also used in the PAPA 8 World Pinball Championships two years ago. And stepping out of the pinball world and running the Google test, "'Road Kings' pinball" produces 4390 hits.

Even forgetting all of that, as I said, this article fits the definition of stub as I read it, so seeing as how most of the current pinball machine articles are stubs, I'd really prefer that they be left alone and let their room for expansion be fulfilled (which, as articles like Twilight Zone (pinball) make clear, there is lots of room for). Please notify me if you are still in disagreement and wish to take this to a VfD. Thank you, Fractalchez 23:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Also please see Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Reasons_for_deletion. Although this list is not inclusive, it doesn't even hint of length being a criterion for deletion--it isn't one. KP Botany 00:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)