Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/The Sims

The Sims
A game guide, not a textbook. I've kept a copy at The Sims and The Sims 2. GarrettTalk 21:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep. I know it's a game but the content of this page could be useful, as with other Sim games, for various socialogical studies if it's improved.  Xania 19:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * comment there is a distinct difference between a guide on how to play a particular game, and a book that discusses sociology and uses this game as a simulator. I highly doubt that there is much material here that can be salvaged for the later purpose. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 23:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I can not imagine a scenario in which The Sims, or any documentation of the Sims, would be useful to sociologists. The Sims isn't a rough model of social patterns; it's an assumed model which has been altered significantly for the purposes of entertainment. Even if their model of social patterns, as expressed in the game, was based carefully off of a large sample of collected sociological data, it would be more useful for sociologists to have access to the data itself. Sociologists would likely already have access to said data, because I doubt the creators of The Sims actually performed any sociological studies of their own for the creation of the game. The sims is a game, and not a source of scientific knowledge. Pretend nothing else. -Monk 19:27, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - Also remember to protect the page and use our standard "transwikied according to policy" looks. -within focus 00:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete- --Panic 13:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete --Az1568 23:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Closed as Delete -- Herby talk thyme 13:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment Just out of curiosity, were any of the main authors contacted? (a brief look at the history page gives Hedwig0407 and Seahen as major contributors when the book was active). I realize that this this discussion is closed now, but I'd just like to konw. --Dragontamer 16:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)