Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conditionals

Conditionals

Another surrealist game (see also VfD/Describe a Room Game). Delete, and redirect Conditionals to Conditional. It's worth noting that I actually found this article after linking to it accidentally from RTML. If the game is actually deemed notable, this stub could be merged surrealist games. ~leif 04:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Delete: Unremarkable game. Redirect to Conditional. Geogre 14:07, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Comment: this game is remarkably similar to "definitions", which claims to be "adapted from Alastair Brotchie's A Book of Surrealist Games". I don't suppose any of us have a copy of that book, or any other way to check for the preexistence of surrealist games? I abstain for now. Part of me wants to say merge and redirect, but in truth this article is so short and uninformative that deleting it would hardly be a tragedy—someone could easily write about it at Surrealist games later—and the article name could perhaps be better used as a redirect to Conditional, as Geogre says, with disambiguation at that page if necessary. —Triskaideka 19:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Comment: Another problem is that there were a ton of techniques employed by the Cabaret Voltaire folks and the Minotaur authors, from random pastiche to a form of "parody" that involved reading a newspaper laterally (i.e. across columns) for unexpected sense. Part of the joy of it, though, was the invention, and anything like a set of rules for a Surrealist Game is anathema to the project. If it's a game with rules, it's not a Surrealist game. What the Surrealists did was invent techniques for uncovering the unconscious, and that would be somewhat historical. At least that's how it seems to me. Geogre 01:30, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)