Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Town of Salem

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 delete. Drmies (talk) 04:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Town of Salem

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I came across this article and deleted copyright violations and marked an unreferenced statement. After evaluating it further I am concerned about the topic's notability, and I do not believe this page satisfies WP:NGAME. The page has never had references to independent sources, and I've tried looking for them and came up empty. The only references to the game I have found are either Kickstarter references or posts by the publisher itself, neither of which can be considered reliable for the purposes of establishing notability. I'm not entirely opposed to merging this content into Mafia (party game), as an alternative, although I'm not sure that even this is appropriate, because there are quite a decent number of games based on Mafia and covering them all would tend to detract from that article. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 18:05, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:28, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

• Delete - Despite being a kickstarter backer of this game, I personally don't think it is notable in the least. No coverage I can find anywhere. JT_dale^Talk~ 06:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
• Delete, which is unfortunate as I play Town of Salem online and it is a great game, but there really are no other options. There is this and this in terms of coverage, but unless more sources are found thry aren't enough. Merging to Mafia (party game) may also work. Satellizer (´ ･ ω ･ `) 09:55, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

   Comment: I performed a Google search and got some coverage. The game was one of the entrants at the International Games Festival, and an independent review here. The problem with the second link is that I'm not too sure whether it is a blog or a professional one. Ethically^Yours! 12:24, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

• Merge with Mafia (party game) - And including this reference for its brief description within the page. Everything else should be deleted as it does not meet the criteria of WP:NGAME, as Shirik stated. Jd02022092 (talk) 19:18, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ethically^Yours! 08:59, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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.