Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirate Software (game developer)

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The result was merge to Heartbound (video game). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:34, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Pirate Software (game developer)

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Company doesn't seem to meet WP:NCORP- lacks in-depth coverage in independent sources. MrsSnoozyTurtle 05:27, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and Companies. Shellwood (talk) 08:01, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:44, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
• Selectively merge to Heartbound (video game). This article contains a lot of content about the game development process of Heartbound, which would fit better there (Heartbound (video game)#Development is almost empty as it stands). Of the sources not talking about Heartbound, Ref 1 is primary, Refs 3 and 5 are interviews lacking independent content, Refs 4 and 6 (which I assume are the same) don't contain any coverage of the company at all, and the rest is obvious chaff like the company's own twitter feed (3 times) and their own website. The argument given on the talk page is largely WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, the the "other stuff" being ancient articles. Searching for sources is difficult due to the large number of mentions of software piracy, but I could not find any better sources easily. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:28, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
• Redirect or Merge to Heartbound (video game) as notability is not inherited from works a studio may create and this article fails WP:NCORP. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:32, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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.