Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apolyton Civilization Site (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Those sources indicate little in-depth coverage, and thus consensus seems clear. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apolyton Civilization Site

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No reliable sources found. All of the sources in the article are primary, or tangential name-drops in relation to something else. I was unable to find any significant coverage. The only hits on Google News all stem from the same forum, and say nothing except that the site released a podcast. Under no circumstances is that non-trivial coverage. Last AFD was from 2006 with no real policy-based arguments. Article has been tagged for secondary sources since February 2007 with none forthcoming. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:49, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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—The "GNews old" link is providing four pages of news results. Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All of which are nothing but name-drops (several instances of "The site recently released a new podcast" from Inside Mac Games; a Spanish blurb on a totally unrelated fansite; and other false positives that have nothing to do with the site — they just happen to have "apolyton" and "civilization" in them. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:05, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 01:58, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:58, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete: I found a few sources that might hold the article up for WP:GNG, but I'm really very much on the edge on this one. If anyone comes up with more, I'll strike my !vote. Nomader (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- A GameZone article that has an excerpt from a book about Civilization, where the author describes how Apolyton Civilization Site has a huge impact on both the fan-based community and the development team. (This is probably the only article I found that was really about Apolyton) [1]
- This (apparent) research paper from MIT which name drops Apolyton as "a semi-official site catering to the Civilization series and games like them". [2]
- Gamasutra cites them for information on a Civilization developer [3]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:09, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:30, 16 August 2012 (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.