Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clunky cartridge button

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Clunky cartridge button

Absoutely nonsense. Do a search on "Clunky cartridge button." Nothing. Then copy/paste "cartridge button" with "NES" on a search engine form. Nothing related to what the contributor was typing. In addition it is more of an opinion article. --Anonymous Cow 21:11, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete I don't think it's absolutely nonsense, I just think the contributor has weak English-language writing skills. The article is about the NES cartridge eject button. But I just don't think that an article about an allegedly unreliability in the cartridge connector system of a long-since-obsolete video game system has any potential to become encyclopedic. And the NES certainly wasn't the only system to _have_ a cartridge eject button. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Er...not that I can really tell from the language of this, but there's probably information add to the NES article about hardware problems, perhaps? ~~Shiri — Talk~~ 00:36, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, but some information could be added back to the NES article. I asked the page author to explain here, and they posted the following to my talk page (slightly edited by me):

  I created that Clunky Cartridge Button article to state information about some defects that it causes on NES games and what effects it causes. I played NES when I was really little, and we have undergone some problems that we remember it having. I just thought that the notorius pop-in button would be worth making an article about due to the notorius defects it has. --TheSamurai 23:59, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Let's take up Firebug's offer to add the relevant material to the article-gadfium 08:37, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have added a section on this hardware bug to the main NES page. It should now be safe to delete the Clunky cartridge button stub. Firebug 08:56, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I'm quite familiar with the NES and with the phenomenon he's describing, but this article is misnamed, and the topic is not broad enough to warrant an article of its own. What he is referring to, I think, is the weak ZIF cartridge connector used in the NES, which often made poor contact with carts and resulted in the cartridge failing to boot and the red power LED on the front of the system flashing on and off. Many of you who used to own a NES are probably familiar with this. I should insert a paragraph in the original NES article about this phenomenon, as it is not currently listed, but it doesn't deserve a separate article. Firebug 00:48, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• I wrote a discussion page about this; plus the eject button on the SNES is not as cluncky plus we insert cartridges right into the SNES and on the NES, there is a physical clunky on/off switch for the cartridge insersion. We could keep this since it describes a notorius phenomenon. --TheSamurai 01:11, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, under the bar of notability, gamescruft. Megan1967 07:01, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Another creation of SamuraiClinton (talk · contribs), who has given us five of the current WP:TFD listings, at least two current WP:CFD listings, about 20 WP:VFD listings, and (just recently) Wikipedia:Votes for disambiguation. This is definitely not a NPOV title, nor is it one that people are likely to look for. It's an article about a push-button, moreover. Delete and let Firebug write that paragraph. Uncle G 08:09, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
• Delete, original research - David Gerard 09:57, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I own an NES, I'm familiar with its problems, and this one isn't significant enough to get more than a paragraph in the NES article, if that. --Carnildo 19:06, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons given. Worth a brief mention in the main article, but not by itself. I remember always making it a point to blow on the cartridge's connector before loading it into my own NES. Otherwise, it was the "Flashing LED of Doom" along with the "Scrambled Raster of Despair." - Lucky 6.9 04:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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