Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Cuthbert Chronicle
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- 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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Cuthbert Chronicle[edit]
Nomination for Deletion An encyclopedically non-notable magazine. This is an article about a spammy free promotional magazine put out by an early British computer games company. Publication of the magazine is said by article itself to have been "occasional" and for a "brief period". Most or all UK computer game magazines from this period had BASIC or other language programs written as text in them (I used to read some of them) - doesn't seem to be anything special about the text adventures mentioned. Also, no sources,. Bwithh 04:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. Ned Wilbury 15:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Question In less than twenty years, computer games have evolved from being text code keyed in to 16K of RAM, to hundreds of MB on CD or for lengthy download. It seems to me that there is now a historical revelvance to these magazines, which must appear utterly paleloithic to today's kids. It doesn't sound like this mag was one of the big players a the time, but does it have any significance as a niche example? I'm edging towards a delete, but want to be sure that I understand the context. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete after info from C64 user Bubba, below. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CommentDelete -- anything to do with the Dragon home computer could be described as "niche". I knew one person who had one (and he regretted telling us very quickly!), the rest of us had Spectrums and Commodore 64s. I was heavily into the C64 and home computing scene in the years in question and I certainly don't remember this publication - but as above, I'm not aware of the context.Put me down as neutral at the moment, I suppose.Bubba hotep 20:07, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Now you've convinced me, Brown Haired Girl! Plus, the deciding factor - my favourite C64 publication at the time, Commodore Horizons (in which I had a program published in 1984 and 1985) doesn't even have an article on here. So using that as a yardstick, this shouldn't even have had one in the first place! Bubba hotep 21:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]- Thanks Bubba, I thinbk you've answered my question. If a serious C64 user and partcipant in the "scene" doesn't remember the mag, then it's a delete (unless other C64 users pop up to say that they all rated it highly). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per above. --Kf4bdy talk contribs 02:39, 29 October 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.