Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traditional game (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Traditional game[edit]

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Yes, it may have survived an AFD 11 years go, but I'm still convinced this term is a WP:HOAX. It claims the term "Traditional game" is used to mean a "Video game adaption of traditional media". I'm not buying it. Coin945 (talk) 09:05, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 December 26. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 09:20, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 10:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- I don't think this qualifies as a hoax. The article describes something that actually exists. However, we can't just make up our own terms, similar to Frontier Strip AFD. I can't find any evidence that "Traditional game" is a widespread term.--Rusf10 (talk) 18:36, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Google pops up a large number of pages, none of which are related to video games, for which it would make a valid WP:Red link (the topic of games in tradition doesn't seem obviously to be covered in tradition, but maybe it is and Ctrl+F just doesn't hit the exact term of "game"). At best this is WP:NEO territory for the topic the current article espouses. --Izno (talk) 16:41, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from any other consideration, surely we shouldn't have an article about computer games under the title "traditional game"? In normal everyday English the phrase "traditional game" does not include computer games. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 09:44, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My sentiments exactly. Of course my subjective opinion (without sources to back me up) is not relevant to a discussion about notability, but if you asked me what "traditional games" were, the first thing I would say is "non-electronic games". So this definition is strange indeed..--Coin945 (talk) 10:11, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just your, or my, opinion. Any of the searches linked by the nomination show that reliable sources agree with that interpretation as long as you only include the sources for "traditional game" rather than "tradition game developers" or "traditional game theory" etc., where "traditional" does not qualify "game". 86.17.222.157 (talk) 20:03, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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