Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social Interaction via MMORPGs

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 Speedily kept. Nomination withdrawn with no delete opinions. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 19:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Social Interaction via MMORPGs

This is a lot more like an essay than an encyclopaedia entry, and I cannot think of how this could be rephrased to be suitable. Also, there are quite a lot of advertising statements and WP:OR/unreferenced claims - also lots of neologisms like 'Power Gamer' and 'Hotshot'. Very good intentions, it would seem, but it certainly does not fulfil inclusion criteria. asenine ^{say what?} 05:53, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn per discussion. asenine ^{say what?} 18:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 14:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep, or failing that, move to user space. This was actually fairly interesting to read. And it may not really be original research: the problem is mostly one of formatting, since the ending of the text contains a fairly extensive list of resources consulted, and actually dares to discuss their relevance: it's not inline citations, but IMO it's better than inline citations. The author ought to receive every encouragement to work on this.
I assume this is not a copyright violation. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but Cleanup - This article hasn't been tagged with maintenance tags or prodded but gone straight to AfD barely ten minutes after creation. I feel that the document *can* be reworked, with useful dialogue with the article's creator, in order to create a valuable and integrated article. I would humbly suggest that the AfD is placed either on hold or withdrawn while this work takes place, as per this discussion on the AfD talk page. As for the reference to neologisms, I respectfully disagree with the nominator that these are an issue as they are used in common parlance within the videogaming community and to a reasonable extent outside. This is a well researched article with a large amount of meaningful information written by a contributor new to wikipedia - we should be doing everything we can to cleanup and encourage, not WP:BITEing through an instentaneous AfD. Many thanks, Gazimoff ^Write _Read 14:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Summarize and merge - After summarizing this article, it should be merged into the MMORPG article. Otherwise, this is pretty much an essay and looks like it has a lot of original research, opinion, and speculation around a few reliable statements. This article shouldn't stand on its own. Randomran (talk) 16:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Seems like something written by an academic who doesn't know Wikipedia standards. User:Krator (t c) 19:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Huh. Weird. Krator has it right: This is far from a typical newbie's article, but as we so often forget some people have lives before they join Wikipedia. The sentiment seems to be that a feasible attempt to fix the article can be made once we agree on what should be fixed and why. Disproving this would be quite a feat as the article was AfD'd a full twelve minutes after its creation, before improvement could be attempted. If the nominator would be so kind as to say he withdraws the nomination, it would free our hands to close this AfD as a speedy keep and let the improvement effort get to it. --Kiz o r 13:41, 13 May 2008 (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.