Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Impact of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on the video game industry
the nominator's rationale and most of the delete !votes seem to revolve around , which is laughable, and , which is misconstrued and taken out of the intent of the guideline (UNDUE refers to a POV being given excessive coverage on a specific article compared to other POVs, so citing it to justify deleting a spin-off article is just silly). I think people are looking at it too much from the perspective of the quakes and not enough from the perspective of the longer-reaching impacts it has been having. While some think it trivial to look at the video game industry so closely in light of the humanitarian aspects, that is POV in and of itself (and it's worth noting that this isn't a zero-sum game, editors aren't necessarily sacrificing work on the main articles to contribute to this one). While it is true that nearly every industry in Japan was affected, I don't think that most of them had the same impact on an individual global industry. Japan accounts for a ''very'' large portion of the global video game industry and market... I might even guess it to be almost half; this makes it a very significant event in the history of video gaming. While there may be a compelling argument that it would outscope the more broad economic impacts, there is not yet Economic impact of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|an article on that; a merger discussion would be the appropriate venue if it ever is created, and deletion now would simply throw away all of that content and attribution. If people think it is in poor taste to write about the effects of video gaming while people are suffering, they can work on the other articles (and maybe write on the other economic impacts instead of bitching about what was already written); this article is well-written and well-sourced, and 's work should be an example of how other WikiPrpjects can write about this disaster
— User:Bahamut0013, 15:16, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WAX||WP:UNDUE||WP:VG (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)