Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spaceships of EVE Online

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 that this article will be kept as a valid subarticle of EVE Online. -- Denelson 83 07:18, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spaceships of EVE Online

Wikipedia is not a game guide. Ample precedent exists for the deletion of this article, see e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vehicles in Unreal Tournament 2004, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of vehicles in Battlefield 2, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of vehicles in the Halo universe and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warcraft III units and structures. MER-C 13:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or merge to EVE Online, removing the excessive detail. Not notable enough to merit its own article per WP:FICT; this kind of content belongs more on a specialised game wiki than on Wikipedia. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 14:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and WP:NOT. Ale_Jrb ^talk 14:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and WP:NOT --Fredrick day 20:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to EVE Online. --Czj 21:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to EVE Online. --Khargas 23:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ships in this game, as I understand it, are not vehicles but essentially your character - a permanent function. While I agree Wikipedia is not a game guide, if this article is worthy of deletion then so is, for example, World of Warcraft classes. --User:anonymous 04:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, on the basis that the Eve Online article is too large as it is, and cannot support it. Pages like this one are par for the course for popular MMORPGs, see Runescape skills, or Classes in World of Warcraft. The topic is trivial, but entirely encyclopedic and verifiable. --Ashenai 10:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Very detailed article, and quite well done. Impossible to merge into the EVE Online because of sheer size. It's being linked to from a lot of sources. If someone is on a "kill all game info articles"-crusade, please start at the 10000 other badly written ones. Probably every large MMORPG has dozens of pages in wikipedia, and EVE Online is one of the larger ones. Nachtwind 10:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Far too many other pages would have to be deleted for the same reason. We exist to serve a public that seems to like this page and others like it. I for one like the fact that WP serves to many in so many ways. I don't like crusades either Tirronan 18:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I agree with Wikipedia is not a game guide, however, the ships in the game are the primary focus of this very popular game, so in this case I think its a useful and worthwhile article. Where as a list of minor componants one can add to a ship I think would be extending out of the realm of an ecyclopedia and into a game guide. Russeasby

Keep This article is too large to effectively merge with Eve Online and maintain the depth the current article has. The subject is notable enough, and the article too well written to be considered for outright deletion. As said before, if you delete this article, then you have many other articles to delete as well. --User:anonymous 4:46pm, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Keep If this encyclopedia is to act as a general reference for a variety of users, it should provide the information that those users consider most useful. The monthly cost of MMORPGs is not trivial, and neutral sources of information help them assess the value of the purchase. Wikipedia's ease of navigation also makes it a handy reference during the initial learning phase of these complex games, as long as the article is well-written. Tshiggins (talk • contribs) 23:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Shiptypes are integral to who you are or what your abilities are, the same as a "class" in other games. I agree with other voters on this interpretation. If some wikipedians feel there is a need to remove these kinds of pages then that should be discussed and specified on the policy pages in the wikipedia namespace. ChronoSphere 12:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.