Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nintendorks

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 Naconkantari 20:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nintendorks[edit]

Speedy deletion contested. No assertion of notability. Site utterly fails WP:WEB, should be deleted RWR8189 19:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Cute name, but still not notable. Heimstern Läufer 19:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - game-cruft.Baka man 19:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 19:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Just H 21:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- I searched for any mention of nintendorks outside of their own website, and only found forum postings. No coverage anywhere so probably not notable. Mango juice^talk 23:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as failing the WP:WEB notability guidelines. No non-trivial third-party coverage, never won any independent notable awards, not distributed through more notable means. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 03:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete db-web. Danny Lilithborne 03:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not speedy material. It asserts notability. --- RockMFR 04:40, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - They may well be the most notable group on their message board, but in the bigger world, there a tiddler, not a lunker. Main claim to fame seems to be that they discovered the fabled Hylian Loach in Ocarina of Time. That fish is notable in itself, but they have no proof to back up hteir claim. The Kinslayer 11:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep it - Despite Mangojuice's lackluster Google search, in which he or she ignored the vast, non-forum references to the website, Nintendorks was a notable IGN affiliate in the past. Kinslayer's proof of the Hylian Loach can be found on YouTube in the form of a video, as well as references on independent websites. Nintendorks has a podcast, which can be subscribed to via itunes [?]. The website has historical significance if for nothing else than inventing the word "Nintendorks," which has since entered the popular lexicon as a way to describe Nintendo fans. It's a humor site, not a news site, so NeoChaosX's yearning for notable third party coverage is irrelevant. VerusMaya II 19:02, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment What is needed is not references on independent websites, but non-trivial coverage in reliable sources. "Yearning for notable third party coverage" is in fact one of the only things that is relevant in this debate, its passage of WP:WEB WP:V and WP:RS are the only relevant criteria to judge the website. --RWR8189 22:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment Here's a small sampling of outside, independent third party coverage:

Although mere speculation, perhaps RWR8189's conservative views are influencing his objectivity, because one of Nintendorks' writers occasionally publishes liberal editorials. VerusMaya II 20:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment nearly all of the links you supplied are from unreliable sources, and even there the mentions of the website are trivial. And before I nominated this article for deletion (along with a host of other non-notable forums around the same time) I have never visited or heard of the website. Many times people don't like it that a website they may have a large emotional investment in does not satisfy WP:RS WP:V or WP:WEB, but Wikipedia is not a web directory.--RWR8189 21:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep it- It should also be noted that Nintendorks has a large presense in several different MMORPG's, including World of Warcraft, Urban Dead, and Cybernations. Momtartin 14:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment this is User:Momtartin first contribution to Wikipedia.--RWR8189 21:57, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it- Metacritic frequently quotes Nintendorks (example: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/n64/legendofzeldamajorasmask) Bogartotron 17:55, 24 December 2006 (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.