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The result was keep. Quarl (talk) 2006-12-26 13:48Z

Adventure Gamers[edit]

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Non-notable fansite -- does not meet WP:WEB (which is not a proposal but an official guideline). Andre (talk) 03:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The site's reviews have been quoted on many adventure game box covers
Very few websites can make this claim. Throw on an ((unreferenced)) tag and give the editors some time to get some shots of the game boxes. --- RockMFR 06:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure Criteria #3 is truly satisfied in this sense, "distributed via a medium" is specifically described as being via an online magazine or newspaper. I don't think that reviews on game boxes cut the mustard. Reading the footnote, it notes that sites satisfying Criteria 3 will invariably satisfy Criteria 1, however this does not seem to be the case. Zunaid©Please rate me at Editor Review! 12:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This is a problem with WP:WEB. If you take it at face value, we could reasonably delete an article about a web subject which has content published in Time or Newsweek or something like that. WP:WEB is shitty in regard to offline publications. --- RockMFR 18:00, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Print and other offline media are hardly likely to republish web content. The Time and Newsweek examples are a misnomer; more likely they would publish an article about the website, thus satisfying Criterion 1. Even so, republishing in an offline magazine would meet the spirit (if not the letter) of WP:WEB so would be accepted by any reasonable editor. Mentions on game boxes does not meet the spirit of #3. Zunaid©Please rate me at Editor Review! 07:54, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    1. Article on adventuregamers in PC Master, a Greek gaming magazine. (August 2002)
    2. Featured in the TV program GameQuest on the Dutch channel Veronica. (December 2000)
    3. Featured in "Webtips: De 1019 Beste Websites Verzameld" (2000, Issue #1) among large commercial sites such as GameCenter and PC Gameworld.
    4. Screenshot of Adventure Gamer featured in "English Quest 2", an Australian secondary school textbook. The site is used as an example to encourage students to think about the construction of effective web pages. (September 2000, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd., tentative print run 20000 copies)
    5. Listed in the bibliography of "Ecrire Pour Le Jeu: Techniques Scenaristiques Du Jeu Informatique Et Vidéo" by Emmanuel Gardiola, (June 2000, Editions DIXIT)
  1. Cited in academic article, "Virtual Recentering: Computer Games and Possible Worlds Theory" by Jan Van Looy http://www.imageandnarrative.be/tulseluper/vanlooy.htm
  2. Article reprinted on the website of Ernest Adams, a recognized game design consultant, teacher and author http://www.designersnotebook.com/Scrapbook/AdventureGamers/adventuregamers.htm
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