Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Game (game) (fifth nomination)
Lacks multiple reliable sources for verification - even after very extended amount of time (8 months since first afd discussion) for new sources to arise and despite special initiative by Game fans to find sourceshttp://www.savethegame.org/wiki/Compiled_list_of_sources as well as despite their special deliberate initiative to plant mentions in the media. On this http://www.losethegame.com/strategies.htm page on losethegame.com, planting mentions in the media is recommended as a game strategy. Sole "reliable source" media reference is, in fact, unreliable. The article is trivial in content - it is not a news report but a column (so not subject to news fact-checking). Furthermore, the writer does not substantiate his claims about the popularity of the game, and people should consider that the writer himself may be playing the game (since spreading word of the game is supposed to be "winning" behaviour). (I've lost the link that had the translation of the original article. I'll try and find it again) The writer is also wrong when he claims that readers who read his article have played the game and lost (though this is an indication that he himself is playing the game). One only loses by wanting to play the game (One can think about the game and not "lose" anything if one doesnt' want to play). WarGames|This is a stupid game - the only way to win is, in fact, not to play. In any case, this article fails non-negotiable policy  by failing  and is a good example of 
— User:Bwithh, 20:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:RS||WP:NFT (Wikipedia:Verifiability)