Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camping (gaming)

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 merge to Glossary of video game terms. (non-admin closure) Satellizer (´ ･ ω ･ `) 11:30, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Camping (gaming)[edit]

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It has several issues, like original research, how to content, and written like a debate. It also has two sources. Does this even matter? EMachine03 (talk) 12:18, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) EMachine03 (talk) 12:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:20, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ - essay and original research. LS1979 (talk) 16:18, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Found a previous discussion from five years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Camping_(video_gaming) . Seems that a suggested rewrite hasn't happened and this can really be Merged into the Glossary Salvidrim has suggested. LS1979 (talk) 19:26, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Glossary of video game terms - Seems like a natural fit. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:15, 11 October 2014:: (UTC)

That might just work! However, we might need some more consensus. EMachine03 (talk) 21:10, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to glossary. It's worth attempting to engage the page history and/or talk page before coming to AfD—page probably could have been merged with little fanfare. So "camping" has coverage, but not quite enough to source more than a few good definitions on its variations and maybe some examples. I doubt most of the 27kB of OR at hand here can be sourced. Might be worth differentiating between spawn/base and other kinds of camping in the glossary, though. Some sources: [1][2][3][4] czar ♔ 04:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Glossary of video game terms. It can always be recreated later if more sources are found to demonstrate notability. A WP:VG/RS search turns up results, of course, but the hits are generally not in depth. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:19, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep or selective merge to Glossary of video game terms. I seem to have a little more faith in the notability of the subject than others here, but not a lot more. The camper isn't just an activity or tactic but a quasi-character and trope that comes up repeatedly in fan fiction, etc. (see Diary of a Camper, one of the earliest and best known Machinimas). Some other sources that talk specifically about camping: Kotaku - In Defense of the Camper, Conference paper - Playing Dirty, and also things like this: "That's not the way you play the game" -- about camping operating under thea ssumption readers know what it means [or will understand per the Reddit post title]. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:23, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- To be clear, I'm supporting keeping the article as a notable subject -- the content goes overboard and would need to be substantially edited. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:24, 16 October 2014 (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.