Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gens Sound Record

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 Delete per discussion. "merge" not appropriate. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gens Sound Record

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Article topic lacks significant coverage from reliable, independent sources. (?) It had no meaningful hits in a video game reliable sources custom Google search. There are no worthwhile redirect targets: GYM is up for deletion too and neither is mentioned in the FA-rated Sega Genesis article. czar 04:34, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. czar 04:35, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as searches are not finding anything better. SwisterTwister talk 04:43, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge somewhere, at the very least, something like a generic Video game music file formats article that also covers the obsolete ones like this one. "Notability" guidelines are kinda worthless for extremely relevant but semi-obscure subcultures like the video game music preservation scene. You'll never find a "reliable source", like a big news site, covering it. The Gens Sound Record format has had its very short history in this scene, and just because it's an obsolete format that didn't catch on doesn't mean its existence doesn't deserve note. Are we going to go about and delete everything that becomes obsolete now? Can we please stop with the ridiculous deletionism? Hell, even VGM (file format) seems to be a target of "notability guidelines" when it's an incredibly popular file format, on the context it exists in. — LucasVB | Talk 05:13, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Already responded at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GYM czar 18:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, not notable file format, not backed up by WP:VG/RS'es, unable to find a single one on the custom Google search engine. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 06:46, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Yamaha YM2612 as this file format is specific to this sound chip. ~Kvng (talk) 00:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But this file format isn't even mentioned there once. czar 01:48, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I mean by merge. Add some information about the file formats associated with the the chip into Yamaha YM2612. ~Kvng (talk) 16:05, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...but nothing in the article has sources, so there's nothing to merge. We don't keep unreferenced content. czar 18:33, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: non notable file format. I had already PROD'd this, but then the template was removed. DrDevilFX (talk) 06:21, 20 April 2016 (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.