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
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This was previously AFD'd in a batch nomination in 2013 with several other unofficial Mario games with stronger sourcing (
Kart Fighter &
Super Mario War), and Mario Bros. II largely wasn't touched upon in the discussion. Currently the article relies entirely on video game database entries, which aren't reliable, and I was unable to find any sources, although the title of the game meant there was a lot of unrelated results that were difficult to dig through. The fact that it's a PD title as opposed to a commerical release may contribute to the lack of coverage.
Waxworker (
talk)
21:11, 17 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. Searching for "'Mario Bros' Commodore" or "'Mario Bros' Thundersoft" filters out anything related to official Nintendo releases, but once they're all gone there just isn't much left. A few databases and some user-generated content, but nothing that's both reliable and substantial. I also tried a search of 1980s computer game magazines on archive.org and nothing came up there either.
Lowercaserho (
talk)
01:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep. I was able to find 3 more sources and added. I think this has got historical significance, so we must keep. There are enough supporting sources for it.
Lesliechin1 (
talk)
09:12, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Of the sources you added, MobyGames and GameFAQs are both unreliable (as listed on
WP:VG/RS) since they are
user generated content. I'm don't know if AusGamers is reliable but even if we assume that it is then the article still only has a single paragraph about the game, which is not
significant coverage.
Lowercaserho (
talk)
09:51, 18 May 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.
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.
This was previously AFD'd in a batch nomination in 2013 with several other unofficial Mario games with stronger sourcing (
Kart Fighter &
Super Mario War), and Mario Bros. II largely wasn't touched upon in the discussion. Currently the article relies entirely on video game database entries, which aren't reliable, and I was unable to find any sources, although the title of the game meant there was a lot of unrelated results that were difficult to dig through. The fact that it's a PD title as opposed to a commerical release may contribute to the lack of coverage.
Waxworker (
talk)
21:11, 17 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. Searching for "'Mario Bros' Commodore" or "'Mario Bros' Thundersoft" filters out anything related to official Nintendo releases, but once they're all gone there just isn't much left. A few databases and some user-generated content, but nothing that's both reliable and substantial. I also tried a search of 1980s computer game magazines on archive.org and nothing came up there either.
Lowercaserho (
talk)
01:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep. I was able to find 3 more sources and added. I think this has got historical significance, so we must keep. There are enough supporting sources for it.
Lesliechin1 (
talk)
09:12, 18 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Of the sources you added, MobyGames and GameFAQs are both unreliable (as listed on
WP:VG/RS) since they are
user generated content. I'm don't know if AusGamers is reliable but even if we assume that it is then the article still only has a single paragraph about the game, which is not
significant coverage.
Lowercaserho (
talk)
09:51, 18 May 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.