Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wings (1996 video game)

: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. There's no arguments for deletion aside from the nominator but I don't find the two "keep" !votes very convincing and I see no point in another relist. The issue of merging and where to merge can be discussed on the article's talk page and as Shooterwalker says, we can always revisit this issue later. Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:17, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

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Non-notable freeware game - although the game looks neat, there appear to be no reliable secondary sources. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:33, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. ({{find video game sources short|Wings (1996 video game)|linksearch=}}) • Gene93k (talk) 14:39, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Weak keep one of number of 2D cave flying shooters from late 1990s. I found a short reference, now in article. MKFI (talk) 17:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Comment I could do with some more info on the scope of this reference. If it's short, this may mean merging the information to a boarder topic (a "List of..." article for example) Marasmusine (talk) 13:17, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

::It is a fairly short review, part of a "monthly editors picks of free/shareware games from our BBS" article. More than a passing reference, but not very thorough (hence the "weak" keep). The article is not available online as far as I know, the magazine [http://www.mbnet.fi/lukusali/index.aspx?naytaKaikki=true online archives] only go back to 2003. A merge would be quite acceptable, but I do not know if there is a suitable article to merge to. This game is one of a number of 2D cave flying shooters which reached some popularity in late 1990s. MKFI (talk) 13:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

:::Yeah, normally this would be merged into the developer/publisher article. At present I can only suggest List of freeware video games (which is what I did with Gate 88). Is it the kind of "2D cave flying shooter" that is sometimes called a "Thrust-clone"? There's another 90s example with borderline notability called Gravity Force (and I think another called Bratwurst.) There may be the seed of a catch-all article there. Marasmusine (talk) 17:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

::::Yes, these borrow pretty heavily from Thrust, and Gravity Force belongs to the same genre. The finnish term for the genre is "luolalentely" (no article, but mentioned in :fi:Videopelilajityypit (Video game genres), the english equivalent seems to be "cave flyers" [http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/cave-flyers-and-thrust-clones]. Some other games in the genre: [http://www.jonneweb.net/pelit/category/4/] (in finnish). MKFI (talk) 11:57, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Weak keep: might have potential. No prejudice against revisiting this later if there's nothing reliable to say. Shooterwalker (talk) 17:18, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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