Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Rugby Manager

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The result was delete. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 00:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Rugby Manager

World Rugby Manager (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Minor webgame with the prod removed for the reason article is factually correct and not advertising. The game scores about seven Google hits. I don't believe the material is either independently verifiable or that it meets inclusion criteria, regardless of whether or not it is factually correct or advertising. Wafulz 21:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• I didn't write the original article but fixed it up a little to be factually correct. This may be a minor game when compared to visitor numbers across some other catagories/sports, but in its area does well as a google search for rugby manager games shows by placing it in 5th place as the highest web based game in the genre. A game not being huge does not mean that it is not relevent to those interested in the subject area, and surely wikipedia exists to cover the relevent information or options in any sensible genre? 21:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Not entirely, Wikipedia exists as an encyclopedia of material that needs to meet two criteria:
    1. Verification from reliable third party sources
    2. Material that meets notability criteria.
  • Right now, neither of these appear to be met- I could make a game to simulate being a Netball manager, and it would certainly be the top hit seeing as it would be unique, but it still wouldn't get an article because it doesn't meet the two criteria. Having a high Google rank in its own category doesn't address the lack of sources. --Wafulz 22:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - doesn't appear to pass WP:WEB (or WP:V) so delete, unless notability can be shown somehow. Jayden54 22:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• OK, no big deal. I'd spent a while trying to find a game like this so thought others might be interested, thats all. I found several other similar sized games on here that I'd enjoyed so thought I'd help out by fixing up the description of this one. I'm not sure the netball analogy is relevent though as netball is a niche sport played by high school girls and watched by nobody except their family, while Rugby is one of the most popular sports in many countries including Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and more recently Romania and Italy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grandad80 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 18 December 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.