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Free Parking

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With a due diligence search, I have found no reliable sources showing significant coverage of this topic. Also, if this topic were a person, an animal, an organization, web content, or an event, (which it's not any of those), it would've met speedy deletion criterion A7. 1isall (talk/contribs) 00:07, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. 1isall (talk/contribs) 00:07, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect: There is a possibility that there might be some coverage in (board) gaming magazines from the 1980s when the game first came out but I don't know what they would be or where to find them. Here is a review from a gaming blog, I'm not sure if this counts for notability. There is already a mention of it at Monopoly (game)#Spin-offs so redirect there is appropriate. Moritoriko (talk) 01:40, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Move, redirect, & disambiguate. Free parking currently redirects to Parking#Economics with a hatnote mentioning Free Parking. This is good; "parking that is free" is clearly the PTOPIC since the game is not notable. This page should do something similar, with care to preserve page history and existing links/redirects. My preference would be:

Move Free Parking to Free Parking (game).
Redirect Free Parking (game) to Monopoly (game)#Spin-offs per Moritoriko.
Redirect Free Parking to Parking#Economics, with a hatnote pointing to Free Parking (game).

Messy process, but sensible result. Anerdw (talk) 04:05, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Monopoly (game)#Spin-offs. I looked at the issues of Games magazine from 1988 and 1989 on the Internet Archive, and it wasn't mentioned once as far as I could tell. No reviews, no listing among the year's best games, not even an advertisement. Maybe there are reliable sources out there, but they will have to be found before this article can be kept. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:26, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want to let you all know that the mention of Free Parking in Monopoly (game)#Spin-offs cites About.com (which we all know today as Dotdash Meredith). According to Wikipedia:RSPS, there is no consensus about Dotdash's reliability, so it should only be used situationally. I don't know about the reliability of the source in the context of Monopoly spin-off games. 1isall (talk/contribs) 12:07, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that the section the subsection is in (Monopoly (game)#Related games) currently has this tag:

1isall (talk/contribs) 12:18, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ZeptoLab

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Whilst the 'Cut the Rope' game is clearly notable, I don't think the company ZeptoLab actually is. They only get a passing mention in most of the sources - I am yet to find significant coverage of ZeptoLab - and this is reflected in the content of the article. The article's main content is about 'Cut the Rope' and otherwise only serves as a list of Cut the Rope spin-off games they have created, which we already have at Cut the Rope (video game). OXYLYPSE (talk) 11:15, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games, Games, and Companies. OXYLYPSE (talk) 11:15, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Cut the Rope as an WP:ATD, the article looks like it discusses the game as a franchise. – The Grid (talk) 13:10, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep I found several sources: Pocket Gamer [1] [2], The Village [3], Kommersant [4], GQ Russia [5], Venturebeat [6], Fast Company [7] [8], Bloomberg [9]. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 08:39, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Not all, but most, of the references listed by Jovamilic97 meet WP:ORGCRIT so that would put it over the hurdle for meeting WP:NCORP. Coupled by the book references found I would say the company is more than notable. --CNMall41 (talk) 21:52, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per others, clearly notable. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:38, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning keep; significant Russian sources signify notability. But the article certainly needs WP:FIXABLE significant work. IgelRM (talk) 18:13, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Balance (puzzle)

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No significant coverage. SL93 (talk) 02:38, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Games and Mathematics. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:41, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to World Puzzle Championship#Classic puzzles used. I added a reference to that section of the article. --Mika1h (talk) 14:07, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Is there more support for Redirection?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:49, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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