Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Trading card game (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was keep. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 13:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Trading card game

The store page is obsolete on meta: and this project is inactive. Made in 2009. ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 18:50, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep mark as inactive at worst - As mentioned above It is generally preferable that inactive WikiProjects not be deleted, but instead be marked as {{inactive}}, redirected to a relevant WikiProject, or changed to a task force of a parent WikiProject, unless the WikiProject was incompletely created or is entirely undesirable. Jimbo's comments Moxy (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per Moxy and also, this seems a great project and it would be a great waste if all that time and effort was to be deleted. Mark as inactive, but, if possible, get this project going again! Rcsprinter (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep we don't delete pages for mere inactivity unless the page has very little content, and there is plenty here. If someone wants to restart the project then there is lots of useful material. Tag it as inactive instead. Hut 8.5 19:44, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Preserve There were 2011 edits. It is semi-active but not completely active. Don't nominate uselessly. James1011R (talk, contribs) - That's ridiculous. It's not even funny. 01:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Forgive me if I sound rude, but this nomination is a joke. First of all, using "Made in 2009" as a deletion rationale is quite possibly one of the stupidest things that I have heard. Second, lots of work has been done, and throwing it away would be a waste. The others that have been working on it with me have been inactive on it for a while as well, because we have been busy with other things, but we fully intend to keep going with it. Deleting this project would do absolutely no good; it would just lose the WMF a chance at a fundraiser that could quite possibly do very well. ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 02:16, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question. Can someone familiar with this explain what exactly it has to do with the encyclopedia? It has a membership, but that doesn't define it as a WikiProject. There isn't much substance. Perhaps there is a better option than delete or keep? Detail-based reasoning as ever would be good. Nominator baiting is so much less productive! Thank you. --Klein zach 11:41, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This was proposed back in 2008 (?) as a fundraiser for Wikimedia Foundation to be distributed through the Cafepress. It's been contributed to since 2009 when we composed a complete ruleset and began working on starter set cards. The trading card game itself is our effort to reincarnate in an offline manner the daily life of an active Wikipedian citizen, primarily article improvement and vandalism countering. And anyone who says it's inactive ought to take a look at the subpages, particularly Wikipedia:Trading card game/Action plan/Phase 2:Cards/Individual card proposals (with over 2400 edits), the current phase of the game's design, as well as our off-wiki image repository. Being a regular contributor, I'd be biased to say keep, but I will anyway. Keep. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I understand it's a Wikipedia Game. Why is it categorized as a WikiProject? --Klein zach 23:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting question; we certainly don't treat it like a WikiProject. I'll kill the category now. It should be evident from the page title that it isn't a WikiProject; it's actually one of the Department of Fun's initiatives. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:34, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Hut 8.5 and James1011R. Project is ongoing and has recent activity, even if it has become semi-active in the last few months. I am sure activity will pick up again in the near future. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 18:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. OTRS recently received an email from someone with some interesting ideas very similar to this. I was going to refer them to this page until I saw it was up for deletion. Maybe this person would be interested in reviving this project. -- œ ^™ 03:05, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't call it dead yet; we are still planning on continuing it. However, there are very few of us working on it, and we have all become somewhat busy as of late, but I think that it will pick up again soon. ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 00:09, 9 September 2011 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.