Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serebii (website)

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The result was merge to Pokémon#Fan community. Merge selectively avoiding WP:UNDUE. (non-admin closure) Szzuk (talk) 06:33, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Serebii (website)[edit]

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Non-notable website; it may have been around since 1999, but if the reliable coverage is restricted to one magazine writeup [1], then that's not enough. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 01:23, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 01:23, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The website is popular but this reference is not enough for notability. Also the other resources that I can find are just trivial mentions [2][3] or from blogs [4]Charmk (talk) 05:33, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Pokémon#Fan community. I think the USGamer article is enough to warrant inclusion there. Reach Out to the Truth 15:28, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Pokémon#Fan community. - While there are plenty of hits that cite Serebii as the source of some piece of information, only the USGamer article is substantial coverage about the website itself. Not enough to sustain a stand alone article, but as mentioned above, it is enough to be included in fan community section of the main Pokemon article. Rorshacma (talk) 16:31, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Needs more sources, I agree. But considering how frequently it's referenced by reliable news sources, I think it'd be unusual for it to not meet the notability threshold. I tried to dig up some sources that go into more detail about the website itself: [5] [6]. A briefer bit of background here: [7]. Ahiijny (talk) 18:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Pokémon#Fan community. Being familiar with Serebii, I don’t think this will hit the threshold for notability in reliable sources. But, we clearly do have at least one, and it’s worth at least a brief mention in the merge target, and a redirect there. Makes it a good alternative to deletion, and if more reliable sources are written about it, the old material is there. Red Phoenix ^talk 23:23, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - per Reach Out to the Truth, Rorshacma, and Red Phoenix. Videogameplayer99 (talk) 22:54, 5 July 2019 (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.