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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 merge‎ to List of Roblox games#Natural Disaster Survival. Merge any usable sourced content. Liz Read! Talk! 23:07, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Natural Disaster Survival

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Fails WP:GNG with insufficient sourcing, just general coverage of Roblox that happens to mention the game, but no specific coverage on the game individually. Might as well be a failure at WP:NOTDB as well. Propose re-establishing the redirect back to List of Roblox games. EggRoll97 (talk) 20:54, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Cakelot1, QuicoleJR, and A diehard editor: After doing another round of searches, I was able to find three extra sources. The first one is another scholarly source that analyzes the mod in the context of natural disasters. It also seems to go over how the game is used as a teaching tool to help students learn about geography and the environment. The original version's in Portuguese so I had to download the paper from Google Scholar and translate it from there. Unfortunately I can't send the translation link so you're going to have to download and translate from this: [7]
Also, I found two listicles from Android Central and Windows Central that contained a 100 word description of the game. Considering that they're both from the same author, both sites are owned by the same publisher and they say virtually the exact same thing, I'd count this as one fairly strong source. There were also Eurogamer listicles from the Brazil version of the website that also mentioned the game, but they aren't substantial.
Finally, I found a Chinese magazine which seems to talk about the game, but I can't find a way to translate it. Out of a good faith assumption, I guess it's fairly WP:SIGCOV?
So in total we have six sources that seem reliable, and give moderate to decent coverage to the game. Would this be enough to justify a Weak Keep? PantheonRadiance (talk) 02:30, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would say so. The article would still need a major rewrite, but WP:TNT isn't policy. QuicoleJR (talk) 11:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Chinese source talks about how players load into a map "such as a prison, amusement park, skyscraper, or construction site", followed by a natural disaster, such as an "earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood, tsunami, [or] meteor shower", and goes into how players must survive the natural disaster in question. Surface-level gameplay overview. Regardless, the sources provided are far too weak to suggest that this article should be split to begin with. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 06:11, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment: After having a first go at rewriting some of the article based on the above sources, I'm even more convinced that this should be redirected. (Findlay 2017) which was treaty as the most substantial source above turns out to be a masters thesis, with most of it's space on the game taken up with listing each of the events in it. Not in my view substantial and not reliable. (Long 2019) seems to be a Bachelor's dissertation and is even less substantial. Everything else still seems to be listicles. I haven't as of yet been able to read the foreign language magazines but based on all the other magazine type articles we do have accesses to I'm not hopeful that they will give any further information. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 21:17, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
After reading your response, I do agree with you on some aspects, but not enough to sway me towards a redirect yet. Per WP:SCHOLARSHIP, I counted the Findlay source as reliable on two accounts - as a research paper and a dissertation. The article had been cited by two other peer-reviewed journals according to Google Scholar, in line with the scholarship guidelines: "Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses…. If possible, use theses that have been cited in the literature; supervised by recognized specialists in the field; or reviewed by independent parties." So as a dissertation that has been cited in some scholarly journals, I'd argue that it decently works as a reliable source.
The second source by Long was also cited 15 times in several peer-reviewed journals according to Google Scholar. However, I decided to dismiss the source because, as you stated earlier, it is fairly sparse coverage, and the fact that it was listed as a preprint, meaning according to the scholarship guideline it isn't exactly a reliable source, whether cited by reliable journals or not.
Finally, the Portuguese paper I linked above is an excerpt from "Terræ didatica", a peer-reviewed scholarly journal listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals. I haven't been able to find evidence that the journal is predatory or had any poor peer-review practices, so I would argue that it qualifies as a reliable scholarly source. As for SIGCOV, I verified that the mod is covered significantly through my translation of the source. Pages 3 and 8-11 offer the most commentary about the game, namely a brief premise and its gameplay, how it accurately depicts weather phenomena, and how the game revealed teamwork and collaboration amongst students along with language barriers. In that regard, it works as solid secondary commentary and analysis of the game as a teaching tool for students to learn about natural phenomena. Also, I'd argue that the PCGamesN and Android/Windows Central listicles may not be enough to provide significant coverage on their own, but would be decent enough for the reception and analysis section of the game. After I posted the sources, I thought of combining both the analysis of the game and reception of the game together, but it seems you already somewhat did that earlier today. Thanks for that.
However, if anyone else finds sufficient evidence that the "Terræ didatica" journal and any of the other journals which cited the sources I found aren't reliable at all, I'd be more than open to a redirect. PantheonRadiance (talk) 03:50, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I will repeat that I think (Findlay 2017) is very close to being passing coverage. Of the aprox 180 words, ~50 are dedicated to other Roblox mods, ~20 to what a mod is, and ~50 on a non-exhaustive list of the games disasters. This leaves basically a single sentence giving any actual useful commentary on the subject. I just didn't find it a very substantial source to hang and article on.
I agree that (Siqueira 2019) is substantial but again I don't think one substantial source and a pretty passing mention of criticisms is enough in my view to write a well rounded article. I really apricate your research, but from my point of view, everything of note that that can currently be said and sourced about this topic could fit in 2 to 3 paragraphs, and could be easily accommodated in Natural Disaster Survival section of the main list. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 20:09, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to List of Roblox games#Natural Disaster Survival, the sources available for this game are clearly not reliable. Master's and bachelor's theses are explicitly considered unreliable according to sourcing guidelines, and the other sources, English or non-English, seem to exclusively be crufty listicles that would not pass VG/RS. Entertainment Focus is probably the closest to reliable, and even then I would definitely hesitate to use it to claim notability. However, there is some reliably sourced information such as from the passing mention in the PCGamesN article that is not in the main list, which should be merged there. Devonian Wombat (talk) 23:00, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Actually, Master's dissertations "are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence" per WP:SCHOLARSHIP. I wrote above explaining why I thought the sources would fall under usable scholarly articles. PantheonRadiance (talk) 04:00, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge — I have done the due diligence of looking into this game. The original content from this page is copied from the Roblox Wiki entry and cannot be used. Having read through this discussion, it appears as though editors are scraping through the Internet to attempt to find sources, rather than having them come naturally, suggesting that the subject here is not notable. One of the two research papers in here is a preprint and does not suggest notability. The comparable Adopt Me! has a variety of reliable sources that support the accompanying article. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 05:34, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    well if they do exist after we scraped through the internet to find them does it matter as long as we found them? Doesn't that still prove notability? Blitzfan51 speak to the manager 19:16, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The point is that what little sources have been found so far have been found through extreme measures (e.g. Google Books). What would establish notability is several reliable sources, ideally those on the perennial list, that demonstrate this article is more than a few sentences and a half. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 02:58, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I wouldn't consider looking for printed sources particularly "extreme". However, I am also unconvinced SIGCOV actually exists. Trying to look for scattered mentions to cobble together is like building the foundation of a house after you sell it. At best it would need to be totally rewritten and submitted in AfC. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per WP:PRESERVE. Most of the sources are unreliable. There are some WP:TRIVIALMENTIONs that verify this game's existence and that can be covered as part of the main Roblox article. I don't see any hope of an expansion into a meaningful and reliable article. Shooterwalker (talk) 15:28, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The article was translated to Italian Wikipedia and moved to draft because it didn't publish well, so the other details of the article didn't have to be removed earlier. ~ Alex | Leave me a message on my talk page! — Preceding undated comment added 20:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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