Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traditional games of the United States

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 14:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Traditional games of the United States[edit]

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WP:OR mixed list of commercial games, worldwide games, sports, ... which happen to also be played in the US (just like 100s of other games). No idea why some games from the sources were included and some excluded, just reinforces the randomness of the list. Fram (talk) 16:19, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Games and United States of America. Fram (talk) 16:19, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some information on the traditional games of the United States is better than none, and the article can always be expanded upon by interested editors. GreekApple123 (talk) 16:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Random info with a very unclear selection process is not better than no information at all, no. The inclusion or exclusion criteria for this list seems to be completely arbitrary (if Twister, then why not Monopoly, ...? if lacrosse, then why no baseball?) and would result in a quasi endless list of everything played in the US "traditionally" (when does traditionally start? Invented/played before X?) Just throwing together some information and claiming it is about "the traditional games of the United States" is not how articles should be made. Fram (talk) 16:53, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I normally like navigational list articles, but I'm not sure this one is recoverable. If there were some good sources that discussed this specific topic, I'd lean toward keep pretty quickly. But as it is, I'm not sure how we'd pick what goes here and what doesn't. That's usually a bad sign for a list article. Hobit (talk) 20:32, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Traditional board games perhaps, this is just anything and everything moooshed together. There is no discussion beyond simply listing them and one line about each game. Oaktree b (talk) 20:51, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, this is a random list with an especially unclear selection criteria failing WP:LISTN. VickKiang (talk) 21:11, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hobit's views mirror my own. It would be nice for something to be here, but with unclear inclusion criteria, it's not clear how to save this. Jclemens (talk) 03:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as this is a list which does not meet the WP:LSC guideline. Bruxton (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2022 (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.