Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Triforce (Arcade Board)

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 redirect to List of Sega arcade system boards#Triforce. Though not unanimous, there was a consensus that notability was not established.

While there are two redirects and a merge, the redirect was in the "I've merged, so now redirect" form, and so are functionally doing the same thing. As such I believe it remains the consensus view, and enables any additional merging thought to be beneficial. Nosebagbear (talk) 01:04, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Triforce (Arcade Board)

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Non-notable piece of arcade hardware. BEFORE searches do not return anything close to significant coverage. And aside from one source cited in the article, the rest of the links cited are effectively dead/broken. Also Earwig suggests potential copyvio issues as well. DocFreeman24 (talk) 23:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. DocFreeman24 (talk) 23:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. DocFreeman24 (talk) 23:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If kept it should be (arcade board) not (Arcade Board).--70.24.249.16 (talk) 03:13, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep - Has sources with [1], [2], and [3]. Would most certainly need a rewrite if kept. (Oinkers42) (talk) 14:21, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:18, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of Sega arcade system boards#Triforce So all the sources in the article currently are unreliable, that's for sure. Oinkers did some nice detective work and found some good sources above, but not substantial enough to build an article out of. Best solution would be to redirect and summarize the hardware somewhere. The best target currently is List of Sega arcade system boards#Triforce. An alternative would be a paragraph in the GameCube article since it is based on GameCube architecture. There's a brief mention there currently but until that article gets an overhaul (which it desperately needs), I think the Sega board list is a better target. TarkusAB^talk/contrib 09:31, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Update: I took the initiative and merged all reliably sourced information to the target I suggested. TarkusAB^talk/contrib 02:00, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep copyvio is not a reason to delete an article on a notable topic. Sourcing presented here shows notability. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:24, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other than IGN, all the other sources used are unreliable. And of the IGN articles, only one article is explicitly about the arcade board. I'm not seeing how the sourcing demonstrates notability. TarkusAB^talk/contrib 02:05, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - actually, Copyright violations are a very good reason to delete. However, it is not at all clear from this discussion whether the copyvio is merely suspected, if a few parts of the article are copyvio (these should be removed and revdeleted), if there is a "good" version to revert to, or if the entire article needs to be removed and rewritten using available reliable sources. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:28, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 05:43, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Would help to get more comments on keep vs redirect options
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of Sega arcade system boards#Triforce. The brief sources mentioned/added together do not constitute significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources. (?) We would need way more content to write a dedicated article on the subject. The suggested merge target would be sufficient for housing the little sourceable info. czar 03:14, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Sega arcade system boards#Triforce per TarkusAB. Wario-Man ^talk 11:02, 23 July 2021 (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.