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Xenia (emulator)

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Fails WP:GNG. I am unable to find significant coverage in independent, reliable sources, even with the WikiProject Video Games custom Google searches. Xenia gets mentioned in plenty of reliable sources, but these are simply that: trivial mentions. It also appears on a few listicles, but most of them seem to be published by sketchy SEO affiliate sites. Then there are the press releases, download sites, forum posts, YouTube videos, and other low-quality sources you tend to find on software. What we need is significant and independent and reliable coverage and I'm not seeing it. Woodroar (talk) 05:00, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Woodroar (talk) 05:00, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Woodroar (talk) 05:00, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The emulator has been the primary subject of numerous articles written in reliable news outlets that extends beyond trivial mention. The following reliable sources have covered the subject in significant, non-trivial ways.

CinemaBlend

Polygon
VGR

PC Gamer, PC Gamer
DOSGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming, DSOGaming

--Odie5533 (talk) 08:17, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DSOG and CinemaBlend are unreliable, WccfTech situational, and the reliability of VGR, Happy Gamer and SegmentNext has not yet been assessed. Even then, reviewing these sources, it is clear that all of them (reliable and unreliable ones) are either rehashes of news bits ("Xena dev team has done X") or reports of one or another game now being playable on the emulator, usually from configurations by third parties. None constitute significant coverage of the emulator itself. IceWelder [✉] 09:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You declare CinemaBlend is unreliable, but Ars Technica, IGN, Newsweek, USA Today, Deseret News, Herald-Standard, The Canberra Times, Patriot-News, ScreenRant, DigitalSpy, and countless other news outlets rely on their reporting. I believe they are reliable. --Odie5533 (talk) 12:11, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Run-of-the-mill news articles and articles detailing how one specific person got one specific game to run on the emulator does not pass GNG. Even the few sources that focus on the topic fail to go into any detail about it. IceWelder [✉] 09:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]