Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Nintendo Entertainment System hardware clones

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The result was delete. There is a cover article on the topic, no need for all the redlinks. Tone 15:10, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Nintendo Entertainment System hardware clones[edit]

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This is a very long list of mostly red-linked clones. It's unreferenced (likely ripped from a website), far too many red links, and contains too many mistakes. Action Gamemaster was never released, Entertainment Computer System is an Intellivision add-on, Nintoaster is a case mod, and "Super Joy Fun Stick Player Mech Game Player Game" is Benjamin Heckendorn's nickname for the Power Player Super Joy III. In short, a complete mess of an "article".

keep, but limit to bluelinked (and correctly bluelinked) entires only. Agree in current form it is a mess, but messes should be cleaned up, not deleted. UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:58, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete regardless of whether it can be cleaned up or not. The NOAC is a very very commonly available chip, and there's just way to many devices and systems out there using it to justify listing anything but the most notable, which even then the handful of which can simply be mentioned in prose in the Nintendo Entertainment System article. As such, I don't see enough notability to carry it's own article here. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 02:02, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. (Search video game sources) • Gene93k (talk) 19:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per rational by Marty Golberg. Additionally this article has no sources (let alone, reliable significant ones) to cover it. --Teancum (talk) 15:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, in a cut-down form, but not restricted to blue linked articles (Category:Nintendo Entertainment System hardware clones serves that purpose) - NES clones are an important part of many countries' gaming history outside of Japan, North America and Western Europe, but many of them aren't individually notable or unique enough to warrant their own article (there are only so many different ways you can say "it plays Famicom games but it's shaped more like console X, oh and it has turbo buttons"). It shouldn't attempt to list every clone ever produced - there are thousands of them - but at least those that enjoyed some degree of popularity somewhere in the world. Sengokucannon (talk) 18:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Amusingly I was going to suggest this be a category rather than an article. Turns out it's already a category. There's also a full length article on NES clones. If a clone doesn't deserve it's own article or even mention within the clones article, why does it need a whole other article to catalogue it? Not to mention this list isn't sourced and contains some...questionable entries. - OldManNeptune⚓ (talk) 02:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per comments from OldManNeptune, MartyGoldberg and Teancum Miles Blues (talk · contribs) 02:48, 21 August 2010 (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.