Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mars Explorer (Computer game)

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The result was delete. Insufficient coverage to demonstrate notability, under any relevant guideline ~ mazca ^talk 00:25, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mars Explorer (Computer game)[edit]

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This article appears to fail the WP:GNG as well as the more specific WP:PRODUCT and WP:WEB guidelines for notability. Searching GNews and GBooks shows no matches for this computer game and the only sources added to the article are either self published or game reviews that do not address the requirement for significant impact. One 2008 award has been mentioned in the article (Unity) but this was a mention along with twelve others for 'special recognition' which is a category they created that year for games not winning the planned awards (there were 70 nominations). It should also be noted that Unity is not a games market/industry award but limited to the those games created with Unity's game development tools, consequently not suitable as evidence of notability. Earlier templates for improvement have been removed without discussion or satisfactory improvement and a previous PROD deleted, so raising for wider discussion. Fæ (talk) 06:52, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Fæ (talk) 06:53, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) Fæ (talk) 14:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:WEB and WP:V. None of the sources meet the WikiProject Video games list of sources. I even tried the WPVG custom Google search and found only forum posts, trivial mentions, and numerous references to the real-life rovers. Wyatt Riot (talk) 14:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No significant coverage from reliable sources. --Teancum (talk) 14:55, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment on duplicates - It should be noted that this AfD applies to any and all name variation duplicates of the text such as those recently created over prior redirects at Mars Explorer (Game) and Mars Explorer (video game). Fæ (talk) 15:33, 15 October 2010 (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.