Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Link's Awakening bosses

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The result of the debate was Transwiki Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 23:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Link's Awakening bosses

Tagged for speedy as "Wikipedia is not a video game strategy guide. Non-strategic information already exists in the article on The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.", only that isn't a speedy criterion. Since it was tagged, I brought it here. No notvote from me. -Splash 04:27, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete I'm the one who wanted it speedy deleted. Seems like a waste of time to AfD it, but very well. Hopefully this is one of the things to be addressed in the deletion reform discussion I heard about, but for now the existing policy prevails. I repeat: Wikipedia is not a video game strategy guide. I realize that's not part of the official Wikipedia is not policy, but I'm not the first person to say it, and I doubt I'll be the last. In fact, I think I'll go and suggest the addition of that right now. Non-strategic information on these bosses already exists in the article on The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, so there's no need to merge it. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 04:50, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Last time I checked, Wikipedia gives out information about different areas of things. It seems to me that Link's Awakening bosses is a thing, and I have given information about it. Please don't delete this article. 24.21.191.65 06:26, 10 September 2005 (UTC) [Note from WikidSmaht: This is DiddyKong1234, I think he forgot to log in.]
  • Wikipedia is meant to be informative, yes. But Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Tutorials, guides, and other forms of instruction should be collected into Wikibooks. Most of the information in the article is about how to fight and defeat the bosses, written in the imperative tense. The rest can be, and essentially is, covered in the Link's Awakening article, in a section you inspired me to create with an older article of yours. Look at the edit history to see my example of what the article would be like without the strategy part. Also, some of the few other things in the article as it is are incorrect. For example, none of the dungeons in this game are referred to as temples. And all the bosses are Nightmares, according to the story. I do admire the images you collected or created for the article, though. If you hang on to those, I might have a use for them later. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 07:48, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge with something, seems to have extra information. Needs a bit of a rewrite. Kappa 07:25, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
  • As I said, the information was virtually all covered in the main article for Link's Awakening, and everything important( other than strategy, is there, so I don't think there's any need to merge... WikidSmaht (talk) 07:48, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
• The table at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_video_game_strategy_guide may help this discussion. In particular, note the existence of the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker wikibook and its relationship to the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker encyclopaedia article. Uncle G 10:44:19, 2005-09-10 (UTC)
  • Thank you, that's exactly what I was getting at. The content of the article is good( well, not all of it), but not suitable for Wikipedia.
• Transwiki the strategy guide to Wikibooks. The use of "you" in an article is never a good idea. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:20, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki per Mgm. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:56, 2005 September 11 (UTC)

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