Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dotsoul

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 soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 12:23, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dotsoul

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A WP:BEFORE yields some trivial mentions as references in digital media studies publications as an example of a virtual world. The cited sources in the article either also feature trivial mentions of the game, or the purported mentions are non-existent or no longer accessible. Even then, the mentions are arcane scholastic references and the article seems to lack reliable mainstream coverage. The discontinued and temporal nature of the game makes it unlikely that newer sources would provide the missing coverage for this article. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 09:06, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 09:10, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 August 2. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 09:20, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I was able to find non-RS discussions of the game, but nothing more. I couldn't access the references listed in the article, but from the looks of them they're probably just passing mentions or very superficial. If the article does end up being kept, someone needs to go through and properly format the citations and tone down the promotional feel of the article. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 15:52, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.