Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Woodhead

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 no consensus. Big Dom 19:36, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Woodhead[edit]

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Vanity page with no reliable sources with conflict of interest issues. Keithdunwoody (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2011 (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) 13:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Co-creator of the early Wizardry games meets item 3 of WP:CREATIVE as established with this coverage in a book about computer games. Covered also in the Montreal Gazette, and Eugene Register-Guard. His creation of Virex is documented in this article from The Evening News. -- Whpq (talk) 14:37, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Although this is an autobiography, I see no issue with it failing to meet a neutral point of view. -- Whpq (talk) 14:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as vanity bio, complete with link to "Family Website." Carrite (talk) 05:32, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge the Wizardry series was a pretty influential one at the time. I feel that video game related articles often tend to suffer from bias toward the latest releases, if he was the chief designer of one of today's popular AAA RPG titles i don't think his notability would be questioned. Possibly merge into the article on the company that made the Wizardry games instead if his more recent stuff is not considered notable.Helixdq (talk) 07:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Actually, notability of a bunch of other AAA title designers is being questioned. For example, Drew Karpyshyn's page is tagged for notability -- the designer of a bunch of BioWare's recent titles including Baldur's Gate 2 and Mass Effect. Several other game designers I looked up either don't have Wikipedia pages, or they're tagged for notability. Keithdunwoody (talk) 22:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete vanity bio. Merge (as suggested above) is a possibility, though it's unclear what material if any might be suitable for such a merge. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 07:21, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - A conflict of interest is no grounds for deletion, and I don't understand why you beleive he fails point 3 of WP:CREATIVE. -- Whpq (talk) 16:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Context - While I am the subject of this page, and am therefore biased, I believe you should be aware that I am currently standing for re-election to the Eve Online Council of Stellar Management, and am the target of a rather vigorous negative PR campaign by a group within the game known as the Goons. One of their complaints is that I was the original author of this page back in 2004. At the time, I was a new wikipedia user, and did not know the rule against this; the only reason I added the page was because there was a link on my name in the article about Wizardry and when I clicked on it, I was invited to create an entry. You should also note that the page has been vandalized twice in the last few days. -- Robert Woodhead —Preceding undated comment added 03:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC).[reply]
Keep COI is Ad hominem without proof of POV or other wrongdoing. RW could have an article at WP for co-founding AnimEigo alone, and searching in Google News for his name plus Animeigo gets 17 hits, mostly from Anime News Network. His name plus Wizardry is even better; 14 hits from the Montreal Gazette, Eugene Register-Guard, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, Evening News, Times-News, Daily Record, and 3 from the game developers' site Gamasutra (this and one other),

It seems to me that the multi-talented suffer from a lack of focus on any one of their achievements alone, and WP is most certainly doing something wrong if it does not allow -wide- influence to be treated in the same way as deep influence. Anarchangel (talk) 08:34, 9 March 2011 (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.