Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:53, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge[edit]

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Article is a lengthy piece about a computer adventure game for girls. The references include a rating for mild violence from a site that tracks such things (for all video games), a Youtube trailer, a dead link to the manufacturer's website, one to the listing of the game on IMDB, and a series of personal blogs dedicated to the game. All I could find on an Internet search was promotional material designed to get you to buy the game-- I could not find multiple reliable secondary sources discussing it anywhere. As WP:VG defers explicitly to WP:GNG for assessing notability, this game does not seem to meet the necessary criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia (see WP:NOTEVERYTHING). The fact that the article was originally written by Bob o'clock, an account with no user page that has been used strictly for creating articles related to this series of computer adventure games, I strongly suspect that the article was written by someone hired by the game's distributor. KDS4444^Talk 13:44, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Metacritic only has one review listed, but Moby Games has has a few linked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 15:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Reviews from Just Adventure, Gamezebo, Adventure Gamers, and Jeuxvideo, all of which are vetted by WP:VG/RS. In the future, Moby Games, Metacritic, and a WikiProject Video Games custom Google search are all good ways to determine notability for video games. Standard Google results are usually very poor for pop culture, as the useful results get buried under mountains of useless splogs, torrents, and social media. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2014 (UTC) update: I fixed the broken URLs. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great if that information were available on the project page-- I admit I was overwhelmed by the long list of promotional material I was looking at, and did not know where to begin to search elsewhere (or that there even WAS an "elsewhere") to verify notability on other terms. I am not a member of that particular project-- are any of you? KDS4444^Talk 00:45, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep NinjaRobotPirate has proven it passes all Wikipedia requirements for notability. Dream Focus 17:55, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the sources identified above; subject meets WP:GNG. Gongshow talk 00:38, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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