Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinosaur World (video game)

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The result was merge to Walking with Dinosaurs. Sandstein 18:25, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dinosaur World (video game)

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Unsourced article on non-notable freeware associated with a documentary series. Ichthyovenator (talk) 22:46, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:55, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment any media coverage of this game is likely to be relatively inaccessible by searching, considering it came out in 2001. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:32, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point. I don't believe there to have been much media coverage considering (from what I can see) it was a quite obscure piece of freeware and essentially an alpha version of a game that was ultimately never finished. Ichthyovenator (talk) 23:57, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - into Walking With Dinosaurs, I think there's still a chance someone will look it up, better end up at the series with a brief mention of the game than a red link. FunkMonk (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment this article has a page on the Russian Wikipedia which is pretty decent. I'm not sure if the sources used there are the most adequate but perhaps a translation could save the article. Super Ψ Dro 23:19, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is interesting. Most of the sources used there are primary sources (referencing the game itself or the BBC website) and the ones that aren't (i.e. Qube Software, GameContractor and IMDB) seem a bit questionable to use, but I agree that the article itself looks significantly better than the English language version. Ichthyovenator (talk) 23:40, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could ask a place like the video games WikiProject about this page to see if the game is actually notable enough or not and if they can find better sources or translate the article from Russian. They seem to be quite organized and hard-working (apparently around 70% of the video game articles in Wikipedia have a start-class rating). Super Ψ Dro 00:24, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Walking With Dinosaurs per FunkMonk. Foxnpichu (talk) 11:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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