Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Businesses and organizations in Second Life

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 (non-admin closure) as per general consensus.-Ravichandar 02:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Businesses and organizations in Second Life

This article seems to be a multitude of violations of WP:NOT, including WP:NOT#ADVERTISING, WP:NOT#LINK, WP:NOT#DIRECTORY, WP:NOT#GUIDE and WP:NOT#INFO. Russavia (talk) 17:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related-related deletion discussions. -- Russavia (talk) 17:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Very Weak Keep - Listmania!(™) aside, the article could do more to address this notable aspect of the Massive Multiplayer Online game which has received significant media attention. Subject is notable though, as evidenced by the following examples: [1] ,[2], [3] AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 18:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Second life in and of itself is notable. A major aspect of it is the ability for the users to create and manage businesses and organizations within the universe. While this might not warrant an article, or even a stub, for every one of those individual businesses and organizations, I think a list of them is well within what we can have here. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 20:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It needs to be noted that this subject is already covered in some detail at Second_Life#Businesses and organizations in Second Life. Are long lists (most of which are external links) warranted? Considering that is seems that all one has to do is pay $9.95 to use this game, slap up a virtual store, write up a real world press release, and hey presto, they too can add their company name and weblink to the article...what a fantastic cheap form of advertising. --Россавиа ^Диалог 20:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No one comes to Wikipedia looking for products in Second Life. It's certainly not advertising. It's information about what's happening in a notable aspect of a notable environment. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 20:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep, but remove everything without a reliable source or Wikipedia article- the current version is mostly a growing collection of spam.--CoJaBo (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reassess after stripping out every entry that has done diddly squat within the last year.

Signpostmarv (talk) 01:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge those entries with their own article into Second_Life#Businesses and organizations in Second Life; delete the rest of this linkfarm. Percy Snoodle (talk) 07:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Wikipedia:Lists. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Simply quoting a policy does not offer us insight as to why you believe it should be kept. Could you please elaborate? Thank you. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 18:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is a discriminate and verifiable list and is consistent per the First pillar with a specialized encyclopedia on Second Life, which is notable, and therefore the article works as a sub-article on Second Life. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 20:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, very notable. if Reuters and IBM have a presence there, how is it not notable? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ontario Provincial Police and Vancouver Police all (sadly) have a presense on Second Life as well... RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 03:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Pixelface (talk) 03:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but perhaps develop a more precise criteria for inclusion in the list. The links to the purely in-game companies could probably be cut down. Is there some other website we could link to that has a list of Second Life company urls? It's a notable topic, especially the real-life businesses that have a Second Life presence. --Pixelface (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2008 (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.