Talk:Christian Freeling
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Notability of games edit
Hello,
Not sure if anyone has this page on their watchlist... IHTS seems to be banned at the moment who did the most work here. Anyway, quite a number of Freeling's games that have separate articles really seem to struggle to meet WP:GNG currently. Maybe there's more sources in Dutch or the like, but all of them seem referenced exclusively to things like mindsports.nl (Freeling's website), papers written by Freeling, interviews with Freeling, blog posts by Freeling, and BoardGameGeek (which is a database that essentially grabs anything, and its inclusion standards are much more generous than Wikipedia's). That's not sufficient for notability. Grand Chess at least has one paragraph in a New York Times article, and Emergo apparently had a page or so that mentioned it in some obscure 1992 book, but the rest don't even have that. Any person can go create a website and write essays about 10 games they made on it, but if nobody else notices or cares, that's not enough to make Wikipedia articles about their 10 new game variants. Are there third-party reliable sources that even acknowledge these games existence? Can they be added to the articles if so? SnowFire (talk) 20:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Aleh Tapalnitski wrote a book on Dameo Strategy, and its also been featured in some articles.
- Symple was featured in a New Abstract Games Article by David Ploog as well as some reviews by Eric Silverman. I would support moving some of them here though. In the list with Hexdame and Havannah. Sygo for sure. I didn't create Grand Chess or Emergo, I just included info I found from primary sources for Emergo. However Emergo would probably fit here as well.
- Edit: here are some of the sources for Symple
- https://drericsilverman.com/?s=Symple&submit=Search
- https://www.abstractgames.org/symple.html