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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) Nate • ( chatter) 02:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
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Most of the reception were filled with listicles and/or passing mentions. The Cultural impact section sources doesn't directly talking about the character. The only usable source was there was a "button mashing" article by Kotaku. Im having hard time finding SIGCOV at google news. GreenishPickle! ( 🔔) 00:27, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Video games. Shellwood ( talk) 01:48, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Keep The fact that two notable real-world wrestlers have commented on Eddy, going so far as to attribute their moves to him, is demonstrative of real-world notability and the character's cultural impact. The sources criticising Eddy's controls, although perhaps individually limited in depth, when taken as a whole show Eddy's impact on gaming culture as a character associated with button mashing and gimmicky gameplay. There also seems to be offline sources discussing Eddy's association with capoeira. For example, Jesper Juul discusses in Half-real: video games between real rules and fictional worlds (2005) Eddy as an example of a character that only exists in a "fictional world", but uses the "real rules" of capoeria in combat. (Disclaimer: I was unable to access that source, but the example is cited in this journal article here. Embodying Brazil: An ethnography of diasporic capoeira (Delamont, Stephens & Campos 2017) discusses how "the capoeira men we have known since 2003 are of a generation for whom it was the video game Tekken 3, which first appeared in 1997 featuring an African-Brazilian hero, Eddy Gordo" that drew them to capoeira. Unfortunately I was only able to get snippets from Google Books, though. Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 05:06, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Keep. Not the strongest of Tekken characters, but the wrestling sources plus the scholarly source is worthwhile. - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 23:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Withdraw since the findings of scholarly sources, I think it barely passes now. Withdrawing GreenishPickle! ( 🔔) 00:27, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
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