Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disaster Preparedness Games

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. As far as I can tell, the arguments for keeping focus on what could come of the article, an don't address the issue of notability. Therefore consensus appears to side with deletion. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:40, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disaster Preparedness Games

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Article offers no evidence of its subject's notability and thus runs afoul of WP:PRODUCT. --Dynaflow babble 14:13, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is apparently a variant of Snakes and Ladders aimed at a different didactic goal. Found some references for this[1] but the reference shows that it is quite obviously a variant of the traditional game, making this a content fork under an unhelpful title. A brief mention in the head article might be appropriate; the snakes and ladders game lends itself to all sorts of didactic purposes. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:37, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 15:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can't find a reference for this game - apart from this article. I've looked at the link given by Smerdis, and am not very sure that there is not a case for copyright infringement to be made. Peridon (talk) 16:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Possible keep I'd expect the original Snakes and Ladders game to be in the public domain, so no copyright problem. If sources for this game can be found it would be worth an article. It seems to be in India.Borock (talk) 17:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean the game as a copyright entity - I refer to the text of the indiatogether article..... Peridon (talk) 19:05, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Falls short of anything reliable in the way of sources. Vaguely hedges on WP:SYN - but if anything it just smells a wee bit like it. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I request you to keep the article as it is still under construction and will be near completion by this weekend. The theme of 'Snakes and Ladders' game has been adopted to teach common man about disasters. You will find more details about this in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharvarikulkarni (talk • contribs) 06:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The AFD lasts for about a week - so I'd encourage you to work on it in the meantime. If you can fix it to meet the criteria, it's a keeper. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 20:32, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.