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The result was delete. czar 17:23, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Atlantis[edit]

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Not notable. WP:BEFORE only provided this. Anarchyte (talk | work) 12:23, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:09, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Probable PROMO or Fancruft for an arcade game created in 2008 without sources and no one has added any sources or information in all these years. A Proquest News archive search produced only a single 2010 press release that included ""Battle of Atlantis," X360, Strategy" in a long list of "games released this week." This could have been WP:PROD.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:36, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. The 2008 Xbox 360 game mentioned above is Battle for Atlantis, and is evidently unrelated to the 1981 arcade Battle of Atlantis that is this article's subject. As to the topic itself, I don't currently have access to Bill Kurtz's The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, which is probably the definitive reference work on the topic; it would be helpful to see how much coverage this game received there. Otherwise, it receives brief mention for its early influence in this article, although I'm uncertain whether there is sufficient coverage there to be considered "significant" (a separate discussion can be had about whether that's a RS; Gamasutra staff works are generally considered reliable, but I'm not aware of any binding determination on content provided by their "expert bloggers" – people who are explicitly not Gamasutra staff but who the staff have quasi-endorsed as they are typically "professional developers who post regularly, write informatively, and can draw on a wealth of real-world development experience"). In any case, I don't think that's enough to meet the inclusion bar unless Kurtz provided it with more coverage than I would expect. Ideally, this would be redirected/merged rather than deleted, but since neither Game World Manufacturing nor Comsoft have pages to target... Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:55, 9 January 2019 (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.