Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperia Online

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The result was no consensus. j⚛e decker ^talk 14:58, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Imperia Online

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Can't find any reliable sources that talk about it, so it's not notable Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:22, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 18:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Searching the RS engine, this source comes up. It's odd there's so little coverage when they claim to have 20 million registered users, and 500 thousand players each day. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 19:13, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep: after some search I found this source:

Dube, Ryan (4 May 2014). "Be The King Of The World With Imperia Online". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 11 July 2014.

Together with a source found by Blake this one makes the game pass WP:GNG, albeit barely. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 21:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that makeuseof counts as a reliable source - it's an admitted blog site while Ryan Dube is referenced as a freelance writer whose main claim to fame appears to be as a contributor to this fringe theory website. Philg88 ^♦talk 16:09, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This collective blog appears to have editorial oversight – Ryan Dube is not publishing articles, editors does so. So this collective blog passes duck test for WP:IRS. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 08:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Why isn't there an article in the Bulgarian Wikipedia if it's so well-known? And the host site is a dead link? Philg88 ^♦talk 15:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Bulgarian Wikipedia is very small. They don't have articles for much more notable games (eg. for Warcraft II or Dungeon Keeper), so this fact does not mean anything at all. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 08:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:46, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. While the article topic has nothing but passing mentions in a video game reliable sources search (mainly as the developer of several small games) and while the only current ref that would count as a RS is the Bulgarian paper, my intuition is that it squeaks by the GNG. The two articles mentioned here and the probability of more sourcing existing in non-English sources is greater than my doubts otherwise. Please ping me if more (non-English and offline) sources show in the future. czar ♔ 17:34, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is a Bulgarian Wikipedia page of the game now, I've added a few more sources, categories and linked it from a few pages, so that it's not an orphan.--Justtryanother (talk) 06:30, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Two images were added yesterday as well. --Justtryanother (talk) 09:02, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Davey2010 • (talk) 09:36, 26 July 2014 (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.