Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NiMUD (second nomination)

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. - Bobet 20:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NiMUD

This article was nominated once before (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NiMUD). The voting was flooded with sockpuppets of this vanity article's main author, User:Young Zaphod. That AfD was closed as no consensus, although when you subtract the sockpuppets from the discussion, I think there was a strong consensus for deletion. That sockpuppet has been active again recently, and in cleaning up his mess I came across this article and its history. Since I think the original AfD got it wrong, I'm bringing it up AfD again. This software package is largely non-notable, and the article is clearly a vanity article - the MUD has few users, and little activity. Nandesuka 15:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as I voted last time. There aren't very many servers running NiMUD, there aren't many people playing the games that are running. And I'm personally skeptical that it has as much historical impact in MUD development as the author claims it does. Ehheh 15:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom ST47 18:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep It is as notable as online creation. Its software is present in Envy, ROM_(MUD), Merc_(MUD), EmlenMUD and Medievia, as well as incorporated into a variety of other MUD software. The motivation behind this vote for deletion is merely to slander its authors (one of which is dead). Also, it is not a vanity article as it has been editing by several users. There is no proof of the original AfD sockpuppetry, nor of my relationship to these sock-puppets, but merely hearsay bullduggery and nonsense. (see: my user page) Doctor Octagon 23:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Poppycock. There was plenty of proof of Young Zaphod's egregious sockpuppetry in the original AfD, as detailed in Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Young_Zaphod. Nandesuka 05:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as before Jlambert 23:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete again. It IS disappointing to see this new Doctor Octagon persona doing the same thing as all his others have done... but, more importantly, the article is not about a noteworthy subject for Wikipedia. --Atari2600tim (talk • contribs) 23:27, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Suggest merging. The # of edits shows past interest, and the information was well researched. Suggest merging with online creation. Unsigned edit by User:128.2.13.165. This was the user's first edit. That IP block is owned by Carnegie-Mellon University, which is where the person who keeps appearing in vanity edits claims to have graduated from. Nandesuka 03:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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.