Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of video games by genre

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. --Core desat 06:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of video games by genre[edit]

Indescrimante list. POV as well, as genre is not always absolute. (NOTE: Anyone who thinks this page is 'useful' ought to read WP:USEFUL ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 03:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete, not at all a useful list. Some games are hard to pigeonhole -- also, there're millions of video games out there, there's no way to list them all. Don't we already have categories for video game pages anyway? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 03:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - massive, massive uncompletable list. Categories, people -- use them! --Haemo 03:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, a fun list to peruse but Haemo is quite right, "Categories, people -- use them!" Naufana : talk 05:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete categorizing games/music etc into genres is dependent on one's POV. Besides, a category would be much better for this purpose Corpx 06:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete better serviced by a category. CaveatLector^Talk 11:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep The problem with this article is that it needs to be sourced, too much OR and POV in a field that's been explored in published work. If no effort is made to fix that deficiency, then it should be deleted. However, video games, as with other entertainment, can and have been categorized. I have a feeling that this won't be fixed, no matter how much time is given, but if the author decides to try it, I hope to see it on User Talk. Mandsford 11:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as stated above. This is what categories are for. Arkyan  ^(talk) 15:11, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great big mad delete per WP:LC (list better dealt with as a self-maintaining category). Stifle (talk) 17:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 23:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Haemo. If you include web games and share/freeware, thousands of games are released yearly. There's no perceivable way to avoid runaway listbloat here. Best served by categories and/or specific lists (ie. List of MMOGs). Caknuck 19:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.