Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gamefam

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. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 12:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Not my field, but the sources do not seem to actually show notability , and there do not seem to be any actually notable games yet produced. DGG ( talk ) 04:13, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:36, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:37, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:37, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep COI here because I made the article, and I knew this was coming up, especially since the article had been previously deleted. Their games, at least Hot Wheels Open World, have significant coverage, and there are more sources covering this specific game than just the one in the article. This is aside from the company itself, which has been covered by TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Waddles 🗩 🖉 04:22, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated it on he basis of recent opinions that TechCrunch was not a RS for establishing notability. . DGG ( talk ) 05:30, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@DGG: WP:RSP does say that it may not be useful for verifying notability, which indicates in some cases it can be used, and it appears it's mostly just a caution for determining whether it's a blog or a news article, or a press release. If TechCrunch doesn't work, there still are two others on the article which means there's WP:SIGCOV, and the fact that the company is the first professional company to develop games within Roblox, an independent game, which is noteworthy. This is aside from Hot Wheels Open World yielding a ton of results when searching in news. Waddles 🗩 🖉 14:56, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In this instance, Telecrunch is a promotional interview with the founder; so are VentureBean and GameWorld Observe, the sort of promotional interviews where the founder says whatever they chose, and therefore not reliable for NCORP. License Global is composed of excerpts from those two articles; the Autoblog article is just an announcement that they plan to do a review. If you know of better, please add them. DGG ( talk ) 23:23, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Having made notable games does not automatically make a studio notable, per WP:NOTINHERITED. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 12:01, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:07, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

keep. I'm fine with the sources in the article. Hobit (talk) 15:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Since this is a company/organization, the applicable Guideline is WP:NCORP which lays out the criteria for establishing notability. The criteria requires references that provide in-depth information *on the company* (see WP:CORPDEPTH) and also containing "Independent Content" (see WP:ORGIND ie. not based on stuff announced/provided by the company). None of the references provide anything remotely approaching the criteria for establishing notability. Interviews fails ORGIND when the journalist fails to add any "Independent Content". Articles talking about one of their games only serves to (perhaps) point to the game's potential notability, not of the company. Topic fails NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 19:11, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 17:03, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of Roblox games as WP:ATD. Jumpytoo Talk 06:08, 14 October 2021 (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.