Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MAG (computer game)

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. It is currently not listed at List of roguelikes, so there seems to no point in merging or redirecting. Tikiwont (talk) 10:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MAG (computer game)[edit]

Subject fails Wikipedia's notability requirements, lacking independent, verifiable sources. The closest statement to notability within the article itself is that of proximity: the game's author was classmate to the author of the better-known Hack. After personally spending roughly 45 minutes searching for potential source candidates (querying Mike's Adventure Game, Mike Teixeira, and taking a fair stab at its alternate titles, MAG and PC-MAG, which overwhelmingly return results for topics other than this game), I located a number of one-off "here's the game, download it" mentions, exceedingly brief capsule summaries at MobyGames and Home of the Underdogs, and a handful of Usenet postings (mostly spoilers), none of which appear to qualify as reliable, third-party materials. The game in question exists, but it has not generated sufficient interest to qualify as notable for Wikipedia's purposes. (Of possible relevance to the discussion is that the article recently sprang into existence on the basis of a single-purpose editor going by the handle "Magauthor".) D. Brodale (talk) 19:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related-related deletion discussions. —D. Brodale (talk) 19:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and redirect to Roguelike to discourage recreation Percy Snoodle (talk) 09:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someone another 10:30, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 10:33, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or perhaps Merge into roguelike. I can't find anything significant here. I strongly suspect something exists (and a neat history to boot) but it looks like a rarely played roguelike game. 141.212.111.116 (talk) 20:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't believe there's anything to be gained in merging existing content from MAG into Roguelike, an article beset by its own issues. D. Brodale (talk) 21:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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