Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merchant Cruiser

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 Redirect to TradeWars 2002. Merge was considered appropriate but didn't happen. Redirect retains ability to merge if there is interest, and is relevant, and avoids recreation of separate articles. Since there was no discussion on the two Star Trek usages (TransWarp drive and Class H planet), I'm going to also redirect them to Tradewars 2002, but feel free to re-redirect or disambig them. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-12-27 07:42Z

Merchant Cruiser[edit]

Okay, I've got the same universal disdain for mass listings as anyone else, but I think the case for packaging here is open-and-shut. All of these articles are a massive walled garden of game-guide information, including extreme details about the specifications and statistics of individual ships. There is zero information from an out-of-universe perspective. Were that not enough, they are in fact specifically targeted for one version of the game. The article for the game version itself (TradeWars 2002) is not included in this AFD, although it probably should be merged with its parent Trade Wars article.

It should be pointed out that one of the articles for an individual ship already failed an AFD with a merge determination on 29 November that hasn't happened, and there was already talk page discussion of merging all the ship articles into a list on 6 December that hasn't happened either. However, since there is nothing to merge except highly detailed in-universe statistics and strategy (i.e. game guide content), I fail to see how that would solve the problem at hand.

Articles in this package nomination:

Various TradeWars 2002 ships

Other game content

--Serpent's Choice 08:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Redirect per nom. Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. Also guilty of WP:WAF's "in-universe perspective". One great big cruft sandwich with lashings of OR sauce. -- IslaySolomon | talk 08:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. Don't forget to whack the template and images, too. MER-C 09:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Add this category to the whacking ... and this one, too. Serpent's Choice 09:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, doubt any of this could pass the 25 year test. Alf photoman 12:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per persuasive nomination. Cruftmungous! Guy (Help!) 14:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all - per nom and WP:NOT (and the comments above pretty much nail the important arguments) Jayden54 15:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. Edison 16:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Despite multiple-AFDs making me twitch, this one seems quite valid. That which isn't game guide/manual material is fan-site material, these are not encyclopedia articles. WP:NOT a game guide or GameFAQs mirror. QuagmireDog 16:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. Valid multiple AFD considering the articles involved--† Ðy§ep§ion † ^{Speak your mind} 20:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Koweja 00:38, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all as game guide/glossaries. Koweja 00:38, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per the above and because no out-of-game relevance is shown. The gamecrufters sure are persistent, though. JChap2007 01:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all - Indiscriminate information (WP:NOT) and fancruft. The Kinslayer 10:59, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Per this prior AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Missile Frigate, Merge and redirect all to Tradewars 2002. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 11:55, 21 December 2006 (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.