Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buildings of Age of Empires III

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 Delete. Essjay (Talk) 09:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buildings of Age of Empires III

Buildings of Age of Empires III (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Wikipedia is not a game guide. This article describes the costs, statistics and uses of objects in a game, and has no relevance outside the game. Similar page, Age of Empires III military units, has been deleted 3 times already. No page with similar content exists for the other games in the series. Ck lostsword|^queta!|_Suggestions? 12:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. MER-C 12:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. I felt like I was reading the manual again. | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 12:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Koweja 16:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, though someone should move the info over to one of the gaming wikis first. Koweja 16:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as a gaming guide, although I would hope that I could be transwikied somewhere.-- danntm ^T _C 16:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, and not userfy unless creator needs a day or two to move off WP servers. Far too specific facts-and-figures detail for an encyclopedic article. Some of it may be too close to copyrighted content for WP policy. WP:NOT a game guide or manual. There is a Wikiproject:Computer and video games, please check there for some more specific guidelines, or see comparable ones being developed by the newer Wikiproject:Board and table games. Barno 21:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, gaming is an area of research in mathematics. The mathematical goal is optimization. Military research also using gaming. Also there are many game articles on wikipedia. I'm not sure why this one is singled out. Daniel.Cardenas 21:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
  • See Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games#Deletion. It isn't being "singled" out. This article has nothing to do with optimization or game theory. It is just a glossary for a computer game. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koweja (talk • contribs) 00:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC).
    • It is a list that helps with optimization strategy. Daniel.Cardenas 21:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. If the buildings of Age of Empires 3 were especially researched in a area of mathematics and the article covered that connection, that could have warranted a keep. Delta Tango • Talk 07:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP is not a game manual, this list is not formatted as an article it's just GameFAQs material. Why would someone who hasn't played need to know the building costs? QuagmireDog 14:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• strong keep you guys dont get the policy, this is a LIST not a guide, would you rather have stuff listed in the main article go here and read my counter for the delete

here are my reasons

here is some text from the wiki strategy guide article this article does not include any of these in it

are instruction books that contain hints or complete solutions to specific video games. The exact meaning of a "strategy guide" these days is very vague, as most could be easily ranked as "walkthroughs" or "hint collections".

detailed gameplay information, for example, maneuvers that are not detailed in the manual complete maps of the game, which show the placement of all items (including hidden and hard-to-find ones) detailed instructions for specific locations on how to proceed from there explanations of puzzles details of enemies, including techniques on defeating individual enemies (especially "boss" monsters) checklist of collectible items cheats and game editing, although this has been less common in official guides

none of these are in this list, and dont say collectible items becuase these are standard buildings not ones you gain by playing.--Superchad 19:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)superchad

• Delete - complete cruft, written from a non-real-world perspective, WP not a game guide. Get through the next level on your own. Moreschi ^Deletion! 19:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Fucking ridiculous. Blatantly game guide and fancruft. The Kinslayer 10:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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