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The result was Withdrawing as Keep and I'm willing to add the reviews myself, likely later tonight (NAC). SwisterTwister talk 18:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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Unfortunately this is still questionable at best and it's likely because it's from the pre-Internet boom so any sources are likely both archive and also Japanese. I have searched including with the Japanese-listed name Militia but I found nothing; the Japanese Wiki has extra information but nothing else convincing to help improve this (at least, from what I comprehend). The best my searches basically found was only this 2007 review. SwisterTwister talk 04:57, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Keep – IGN review: [1], GameSpot review: [2], Nintendolife review: [3], AllGame has a review score, although no written review: [4], Mobygames page lists a bunch of magazine reviews: [5]. Nintendo Power also reviewed it according to GameRankings: [6]. -- The1337gamer ( talk) 05:14, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep as searches confirm notability, meets WP:GNG. SwisterTwister, did you do any research at all? ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 11:32, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. (1) Assume good faith—it's silly to expect everyone to automatically know the ins and outs of historical game searches. (2) MobyGames is the best place to find listings of old magazine reviews, and old magazines are the best place to find information on games from the 90s, as the content hasn't digitized well. On the basis of the MobyGames mags alone, we can say the topic is safely notable. czar 08:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. There is likely sufficient coverage to meet the minimum notability threshold from just the materials in our Reference Library. See EGM (Oct. 1993), PC Gamer (May 1995), and Super Play (Oct. 1993). One good way to discover sources like that on-Wiki is by scanning through the page's WhatLinksHere link and looking for incoming links from the WP:VG Reference Library or from Wikipedia's Shared Resources page. - Thibbs ( talk) 19:44, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
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The result was Withdrawing as Keep and I'm willing to add the reviews myself, likely later tonight (NAC). SwisterTwister talk 18:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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Unfortunately this is still questionable at best and it's likely because it's from the pre-Internet boom so any sources are likely both archive and also Japanese. I have searched including with the Japanese-listed name Militia but I found nothing; the Japanese Wiki has extra information but nothing else convincing to help improve this (at least, from what I comprehend). The best my searches basically found was only this 2007 review. SwisterTwister talk 04:57, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 05:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 05:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep – IGN review: [1], GameSpot review: [2], Nintendolife review: [3], AllGame has a review score, although no written review: [4], Mobygames page lists a bunch of magazine reviews: [5]. Nintendo Power also reviewed it according to GameRankings: [6]. -- The1337gamer ( talk) 05:14, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep as searches confirm notability, meets WP:GNG. SwisterTwister, did you do any research at all? ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 11:32, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. (1) Assume good faith—it's silly to expect everyone to automatically know the ins and outs of historical game searches. (2) MobyGames is the best place to find listings of old magazine reviews, and old magazines are the best place to find information on games from the 90s, as the content hasn't digitized well. On the basis of the MobyGames mags alone, we can say the topic is safely notable. czar 08:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- Keep. There is likely sufficient coverage to meet the minimum notability threshold from just the materials in our Reference Library. See EGM (Oct. 1993), PC Gamer (May 1995), and Super Play (Oct. 1993). One good way to discover sources like that on-Wiki is by scanning through the page's WhatLinksHere link and looking for incoming links from the WP:VG Reference Library or from Wikipedia's Shared Resources page. - Thibbs ( talk) 19:44, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
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