Armagetron Advanced article voted for deletion on Wikipedia

madmax · Post by **madmax** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:16 pm

The subject pretty much says it all.
If there's anyone interested (well, probably most of us) take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... n_Advanced

The main article is on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagetron_Advanced

belenus · Post by **belenus** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:55 pm

I do not get the Wikipedia page... where can you do something about this?

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:34 pm

I'm sure we're notable enough... Wrote my reply proving so.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:17 am

Nemo noticed it awhile back, I think. At least, I think it was him, may have been someone else, but I remember going and posting a remark on the discussion page (which was answered) and removing the tag. Hmm, maybe I didn't remove the tag, just posted a comment on it. Anyway, the editor that nominated that page for deletion created this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... er_game%29

Does he just not like computer games? Or does he just completely fail to understand the nature of the open source gaming community? I don't think we're going to be able to meet their standards for notability if they're willing to so blatantly ignore the fact taht most, if not all, of those games are distributed by the linux distributors themselves. I mean, our distribution model i simple, we put out our package, and wait for the distributors to pick it up.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:04 am

I'm keeping out of this; I don't know whether games and other elements of popular (sub)culture should have a place in an encyclopedia. But if you need proof only I can bring, I'm ready.

Some notes:
Our SVN repository, being a seemless merger between the two old CVS repositories, proves continuity nicely.

If printed references are wanted, I've got issue 2003/8 of a Japanese Linux Magazine ( www.ascii.co.jp/linuxmag/ ) where there is something on AA on page 120. I think it also was included on the cover CD, but the only thing I understand are the cute penguin drawings.

We've got one real science quotation: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1062780

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:34 am

I think Armagetron could be one of those things that have a place on Wikipedia because WP isn't as limited in size/scope as a printed encyclopedia, as stated somewhere in the WP namespace (a part of WP containing guidelines for editors). The folks there seem to be happy as long as we're notable (which Tank and Lucifer had shown), so I suppose it's fine.

Science quotation: heh.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:44 am

Ok, let's go to it and make it less like an advertisement and more like a good wikipedia article. It's not up for deletion anymore, now it's tagged "Looks like an advertisement".

Also, an interesting essay that sheds some light on why it was up for deletion to begin with, including what might be an allusion to the whole situation (where the whole situation was essentially one overzealous fascist editor putting a bunch of software articles up for deletion, and ours happened to be one of them):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... r_argument

Make sure to read this one before you edit, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:01 pm

Not quite sure how to edit it so it looks less advertisement like myself

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Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:41 pm

Yeah, it doesn't read like an advertisement to me, so I probably don't know how it's supposed to be changed. Besides, anything we do ourselves exposes the article to more advertisement suspicion. So I'll still keep my hands off it