There are two articles on Skee Ball, although one of them considers it an object instead of a game. The article on the game should remain intact ( http://www.giantbomb.com/skee-ball/61-22110/), while the one referencing it as an object ( http://www.giantbomb.com/skee-ball/93-3181/) could be deleted, as it is less informative and rather useless.
Delete: Skee Ball
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The first article you listed is for when there is a game where you actually play skee ball. The 2nd article is for the object, for example when you encounter a skee ball machine in a game, but it is not playable.
Neither was pinball when it was invented, but it is now. That shouldn't mean all mechanical games are out of scope. I think "electronic game" is a more appropos criteria. And every game of skee ball I've played in the last decade has an electronic display. But more to the point, Skee Ball has been made into a video game, and to know why the hell someone would do that, knowing the history of it helps! :-)" Should Skee Ball really be in the GB database? It's not a video game. "
Welcome to GB @Daemons. You will encounter a lot of "duplicate" entries of the same name, by design. GB and the Whiskey sites are "associative wikis", where categories and context matter. Games contain Characters, Concepts, Objects, and Locations. If Will Wright makes a cameo in a game, he is a Character, but if he is credited as creating a game, he is a Person.
Generally the ones most relevant for delete & combine are two pages within the same category, not the same name, which is the point of the alias system.
For example, see Simon Viklund and Simon Wiklund. Wiklund is more accurate Swedish (I assume.. my heritage is Norsk), though he has used Viklund in most English cases. Viklund will probably get deleted, and the alias to Wiklund should discourage the page being recreated.
It does seem sketchy. Allowing Skee Ball would open the gates to Whac-A-Mole, Hoop Shoot, and whatever other electronic games you might encounter at an arcade, carnival, etc. It appears to be categorized as an Arcade game, which I doubt was intended to have such a broad definition or else Pinball wouldn't be its own platform. Then again, having pinball tables in the database already opens the possibility to non-video games.
" It does seem sketchy. Allowing Skee Ball would open the gates to Whac-A-Mole, Hoop Shoot, and whatever other electronic games you might encounter at an arcade, carnival, etc. It appears to be categorized as an Arcade game, which I doubt was intended to have such a broad definition or else Pinball wouldn't be its own platform. Then again, having pinball tables in the database already opens the possibility to non-video games. "Whack a mole should probably have a page. That gameplay has been in many many minigames and is also uses as a derogatory concept term for very simple forms of "shoot anything that moves" gameplay. Of course pages for concepts like "JRPG" and "Cheap" have been removed from the wiki based on the biased perspective that using these terms should not be encouraged, even though they are clearly quite common. I really wish the wiki had an NPOV policy.
The problem isn't that it needs to make reference to video games. The dispute is whether that kind of arcade game is allowed. If it is, then it's fine like that. Otherwise, it doesn't matter how much it references video games. The object page that was also linked in the opening post should be sufficient for stuff about actual Skee ball, or if someone wants to make a concept that might be fine too. Being a part of a game, such as minigame collections, would make it suited for a concept.
There is a Skee Ball game for the iPhone, so it could be turned into article about that. I've created a guide to hold deleted text and copied the article into there, so regardless of what happens we won't lose anything useful.
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