Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Types of gamers
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- 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 merge to Gamer. Spartaz Humbug! 07:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I really don't see the point of this article. If this was a way to force a merger, it failed. The author copy pasted the original articles, added very little, and posted some merger notes without actually starting a discussion. Each of the subjects is notable, and there is an article on each. The most this page can do is point to main pages. The material in a very close format is available in gamer. Muhandes (talk) 15:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- To be fair, I didn't originally notice that this is what the page is about and started editing it. It might have looked slightly better before I started. --Muhandes (talk) 15:32, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- In case they are relevant to the discussion, the merge proposals "discussions":
--Muhandes (talk) 15:41, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- comment all of the "gamer" articles need serious clean up and additional sourcing. The entire structuring of the "gamer" related topics also needs to be addressed and a logical framework developed and applied. This article however, does not appear to be enhancing either of those objectives. If the poor quality individual articles are to be kept, I see no value in this article. However, if the other articles "content" (such as it is) would be deposited in this article and the other articles converted into redirects here and the section in Gamer#Types_of_video_gamers turned into an actually summary style; then this article would be the logical incubator for developing coherent individual articles that could be spun off as they become developed into more than a few random claims in a stub. Active Banana (talk) 15:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. —Ost (talk) 20:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Gamer. SharkD Talk 02:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It duplicates information from gamer article. Like SharkD wrote - merge, Sir Lothar (talk) 08:54, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete -- gamer article covers everything needed, and most of this is copy/paste. In the event that anything of use would need to be kept, it should be merged, then the article deleted. --Teancum (talk) 12:55, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge additional, non-copypasted-from-other-articles (i.e. plagiarism) content to gamer and redirect there; I note that Types of gamers#Women in gaming is directly copypasted from girl gamer (or whatever it should be named); just closed as a snowball keep. Otherwise, I see no other reason for there to have a separate spinout article on types of gamers (with the exception of girl gamer, but that can be discussed separately if a separate article is justified; the current consensus says so), especially when the gamer article is nowhere near developed. –MuZemike 23:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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