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Two of the references are by the same person. In none of the references is it described by itself, all are announcing releases of several games. As I said, notability is not indicated by the article. Are there any favorable reviews noting public interest in this game? The article itself states it
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The guidelines state that the coverage must be non-trivial. The provided sources, and the other references I found in a gsearch are all trivial, short reviews among many or sites to download the game. This fails the notability standards, unless a better, non-trivial reference can be found.
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I don't see any rationale for deletion. No assertion of importance might work for speedy, but for an AFD some indication that sources were looked for first would be helpful, since
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is the issue. Though I'd agree that what is in effect a single source does not cut the mustard in relation to reception, there's an in-depth review on
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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which google spat out as the first result when I searched for the game's name along with 'game' and 'review'.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Unremarkable Game. I would have filed a speedy delete except there was no such option haha.
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Nothing wrong with the core of this article, just needs improving.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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per Eastmain's improvements, notability is established.
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Juliancolton


01:23, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Active Lancer
Active Lancer
edit
talk
history
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links
watch
logs
views
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View log
Dengero
talk
02:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Synchronism
talk
03:39, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
list of Software-related deletion discussions
Eastmain
talk
03:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Eastmain

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