Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Project64

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The result was merge to List of video game emulators. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:04, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Project64[edit]

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Non notable software. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Current sources are primary or are not reliable sources. duffbeerforme (talk) 07:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I don't think so. Project64 is a notable software, as ZSNES or Dolphin. The references issue can be fixed and is not a reason to delete the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.132.137.116 (talk) 22:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I believe the product to be notable, on the same terms as other leading emulators like Visual Boy Advance or Snes9x; while current sources may not reflect that notability, it is an issue of clean-up, not deletion. Salvidrim! 00:04, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep: This seems to me to be one of those "it should be notable, but RS difficult to find" cases. I'm pretty sure that if I took about a week to dig through everything, I could find 2 significant independent RS for this (and ridiculous quantities of insignificant coverage, or of semi-RS coverage). I'm also pretty sure that it would take me that entire week, and that I don't personally have time to do it. - Jorgath (talk) ^(contribs) 16:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I tried to find any usable references but failed in doing so. Given the opinions above I wanted to suggest selective merge to Nintendo 64, but it seems that all the coverage one can hope regarding WP:V is already there, so the reference to the projects' home page would do. I would specifically disagree that this is one of those "it should be notable, but RS difficult to find" cases, as the software is there for 10 years already, so it has received all the notice it could count for. Once and if any dramatic changes regarding its notability occur, the article could be recreated with verifiable content (in contrast to the current article). — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 01:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Notable, it just needs work.GuzzyG (talk) 09:47, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Salvidrim's right, it just needs cleanup, and the page already has a template in use requesting that. Digifiend (talk) 20:09, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of emulators or somewhere or otherwise preserve. The existing few sources do not seem to have significant coverage to pass WP:GNG as a stand-alone topic. I couldn't find any new ones either. The coverage is essentially a few sentences besides the one review. This isn't enough to build up a full article, even if this passes GNG by a fine margin. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak Delete~~ Merge to List of video game emulators. Normally I would agree with those saying that the article just needs to be cleaned up and better references need to be found, but I'm afraid that Dmitrij D. Czarkoff is correct, and there just aren't any additional reliable sources. If the issues that people are saying just need to be worked on to help establish notability can't actually be fixed, then there's really no valid argument to keep it. Rorshacma (talk) 18:14, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of emulators per Hellknowz. The sources really do matter, per WP:GNG and WP:RS, but if enough feel that this could be sourced somehow, then a merger would be in order. Bearian (talk) 20:22, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~Redirect~~ Merge to List of video game emulators. If a reasonable target is available, there's no reason for outright deletion of a verifiable topic. Perfectly sensible search term. BusterD (talk) 12:37, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- You are referring to "Sub-topics or other topics which are described or listed within a wider article" redirect usage, but that requires the target to actually contain some info about it. That article doesn't, so unless we merge, there is no need for a redirect. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:53, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - The target article List of video game emulators I suggested does contain a listing of the software and a link to the pagespace we're discussing here. However, the marginal sources available in this pagespace would benefit the target, so a merge might be preferable. BusterD (talk) 15:16, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - Whoops, sorry, I had case sensitive search on from previous work so it didn't match it. I see it is there indeed. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 16:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of video game emulators (second vote, please disregard my previous delete vote): very appropriate target which contains some information on topic. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 17:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of video game emulators - Vote changed after review. Salvidrim! 17:51, 27 March 2012 (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.