Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xconq

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 Keep. Foxy Loxy ^Pounce! 02:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Xconq

A game article I started a long time ago, before I was aware of WP:N. Last year, User:Stan Shebs mentioned that this game was discussed in a couple of books, but these sources have not yet come forth, and no reply on his talk page. I propose deletion on the grounds of WP:V and WP:N. Marasmusine (talk) 18:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletions. Marasmusine (talk) 18:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Couldn't you tag it as G7? I mean, there is not an extensive edit history. MuZemike (talk) 20:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I did dig through my library, and came up with three refs - a screen shot in Bridget Testa's book Graphical Treasures of the Internet, a mention in Leininger's 1996 book on AIX tools, the total content being "X-based strategy game; considered by some to be the best multiplayer strategy game available today" (I guess he was a fan), and a page in Game Marugoto Pack for Macintosh, in Japanese so I'm not sure what they're saying. :-) No idea if that's sufficient to establish "notability" in the game world, although it seems a bit weird for something with 49,000 Google hits not to rate a WP entry; the plant species I work on are lucky to get even 500 hits. Stan (talk) 20:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Stan, glad you haven't vanished! Subject needs to have had "significant coverage", so of these the Japanese book is of the most relevance. Marasmusine (talk) 21:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just for grins, I plugged "xconq" into Amazon's search and came up with another half-dozen books mentioning it, including a paragraph in Unix: the Complete Reference. Stan (talk) 20:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: one of the first graphical games for X11, and it's still included in Linux distros today. I think it rates as notable.Vulcan's Forge (talk) 01:43, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Here is the link to the Amazon search results. One of them has George Bush and Stan's game in the same book, so it must be important! ;P SharkD (talk) 03:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry to say, but the mention of George W. Bush in something, as infamous he may be, does not imply inherited notability. MuZemike (talk) 05:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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