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 of the debate was Keep. --Deathphoenix 02:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ships of Homeworld[edit]

proposed delete: Total and utter gamecruft. I love Homeworld, but no one coming here would ever want (or need) to see this level of detail on the game's spacecraft. True, the previous host of this information, the Homeworld Shipyards, has temporarily closed, but (to quote Peter Parker and with full knowledge of what it cost him), "I missed the part where that's my problem." Marblespire 07:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[EDIT] Forgot to mention that would want to delete all attached articles as well (which obviously is a huge lot). Not opposed to recreating (or merging existing articles into) a much smaller sort list, but the articles that exist now are basically copied straight out of the games' manuals, which is excessive to say the least. ~Mbsp

I say save. I personally have plans to go through and fill out a lot of the information here, taking screenshots and looking up information, writing articles for the various ships and such. I can't speak for what other people do on Wikipedia, but I come here to read about things that interest me with a level of depth and detail I can't get other places--plus guaranteed-to-work links to relevant articles, right in the article text. When reading about a movie, I like to have links to all the actors. When reading about a game, I like to have links to the weapons, items, etc. If you propose the removal of this information, then you have to do the same thing for lots of other articles--Star Fox being one I read recently. What, are you going to go through and eliminate information and screenshots about the ships and such just because nobody's ever going to use it? If this information was here already, I would've already read through it all. That alone is an indicator that it's interesting and relevant to someone. I have no idea what the Peter Parker quotes have to do with this. Twile 09:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom who is also a Homeworld expert. Ruby 07:15, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Terence Ong 14:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Latinus 18:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep since it links to alot of other articles on homeworld ships. If you can have 20-30 articles on individual ships, you can have a general article on all of them. -- Astrokey44|talk 18:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Astrokey44. We have similar pages on Halo, and extensive coverage of characters in Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur. -LtNOWIS 03:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 03:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Astrokey44. Meanwhile, I happen to be an obsessed Homeworld player myself, and I do not think the offending article too "detailed" at all (I had the impression I was going to see technical specifications based on the above comments). Instead, it is more of a list than anything else.--Huaiwei 14:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as material of interest to only fans of this game, i.e. gamecruft. Stifle 16:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as material of interest to fans of this game, i.e. everything that Wikipedia is supposed to be. If you remove this because it is of interest to people who are interested in the article, then by that logic you remove every Wikipedia entry, because they're "only" read by people who are interested in them. Twile 22:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep.--Kross^Talk 09:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per Twile's statement High Plains Drifter 21:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Stifle. However, I would like to register my wish to delete Stifle. Rogue 9 05:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The material is of interest to the fans. If games like Battlefield 2 and Halo can have detailed pages, then Homeworld ships deserve it. Alyeska 06:04, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per Twile. Screw the Deletionists >:) E. Sn0 =31337= 06:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I just happened to need this information, and if it wasn't for this article I would probably still be looking for it.

  DON'T BURN THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA ON PURPOSE.
         NEB

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.