Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StepMania

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 keep. MER-C 08:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] StepMania

StepMania (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Not a notable bit of software. Given a {{prod}} tag, removed, given a {{More sources}} tag, removed, given a {{notability}} tag, nothing happens. Response to talk page request for sources was "[G]o right ahead. Nominate it for deletion." Nothing to indicate that this meets the proposed inclusion guidleine for software by having "multiple non-trivial published works, which is also the hurdle for the accepted guidline on Notability linked before. Google News has one hit which is a trivial mention: One word in a list of other similare games, Google search has circa 5K hits, none of which appear to be non-trivial coverage from a reliable source. Delete unless citations provided to demostrate that this meets the existing (and proposed) inclusion guidelines. brenneman 06:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Notwithstanding the long-winded nomination (most of which is irrelevant and relates to tags), there is press coverage for this. [1]. The software was featured in an exhibition at New York's museum of the Moving Image in 2005 [2], [3]. It was discussed by the Museum curator and director in a TV interview in NY [4]. This definitely merits inclusion. --JJay 14:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • The first is a trivial mention - no byline that I can see, amounts to a review only. The second three links all are very slim indeed: perhaps enough to rate a mention in a paragraph on "DDR clones" in the DDR article at the most. More to the point, they are not in the article. Quit faffing around here and write something in the article as I have painfully pointed out time and again on the talk page.
    brenneman 22:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Hardly trivial although you are certainly entitled to your opinion. As to "faffing", instead of pointing things out "time and again" on talk pages, your time would be better served adding references and editing articles. --JJay 23:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I suppose after the recent spate of music-game-related AfDs (for example Flash Flash Revolution, pydance, Text Text Revolution, Dance With Intensity), this nomination was inevitable. Sorry, but StepMania is actually notable - not only has it provided the engine behind two rather successful arcade games that I know of (In The Groove 1 and 2), but the main version has been covered pretty often in media, as JJay pointed out. — flamingspinach | (talk) 17:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. First and foremost, the Stepmania Engine was used in ITG 1 and 2, which were notable games. 69.239.146.153 19:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Here's a source that In The Groove (a commercial success until Konami sued) is based on Stepmania. JJay's sources are probably enough for a decent stub. The current article needs pruning. --SPUI (T - C) 20:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 23:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay. We really need a WikiProject to build good pages about music game simulators, what with all the users trying to wipe them off the face of Wikipedia. - Chardish 02:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay; --Mhking 07:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep - This is a very notable game per links provided above. VegaDark 07:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
• keep please this is a notable and popular game with many verifiable sources too Yuckfoo 08:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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.