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Heavily one sided, Voting for the article to be recreated as currently it seems to me to be unsalvageable. Article presents one sided view that sexism is rife in the industry and has no counter argument. Article also reads like a personal essay.
Retartist (
talk)
06:43, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep. The notability of the topic, which is amply attested in the cited reliable sources, is not contested. Deletion is not cleanup, and the nominator has not edited the article and has not made any proposal for how the article could be made, in their view, more neutral. No policy-based grounds for deletion exist. Sandstein 07:01, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - notability not in question. Want to re-write the article? I won't stand in your way. Best way to do that would be to propose such an effort on the article talk page and start working collaboratively with other editors there. Not really a
WP:TNT situation, this one. St★lwart11107:17, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - as the topic is thoroughly well documented in reliable sources. Retartist, Articles for deletion is the wrong venue to solve problems with the way articles are written; deleting an article is related to the relevance of the topic at independent venues, not the way Wikipedia editors have covered it (you'll hear old-timers saying "deletion is not clean-up"). Problems with the neutrality of presentation are dealt by improving the article with other points of view. If you have references that support a different narrative, please show them at the article's talk page so that they can be discussed.
Diego (
talk)
08:21, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
No, these are distinct topics - how women gamers are treated by other gamers has nothing to do with how women are represented as characters in games, even though both relate to general societal phenomena such as sexism. Sandstein 14:30, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Speedy keep - Not only from most reasons above, but based on nom's contributions, this appears a POINTy nom (user has been critical of gamergate-related coverage). --
MASEM (
t)
13:52, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Snow keep. Clearly adequate sourcing to keep. I tend to agree with
Hahnchen and
Diego that the naming is somewhat awkward and misleading. I also believe this is a pointy nomination as mentioned by
Masem above.
BusterD (
talk)
14:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
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