Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of video game developers

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The result was delete. --Core desat 04:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of video game developers

Malformed nom was created by User:Kesh; his nom can be found here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 02:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nom - Indiscriminate list. Do we really need to list every game development company that ever existed? A category would suffice to cover the notable companies. There is no reason to have a list like this to cover companies that were never well-known enough to be verifiably notable. -- Kesh 02:28, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Thanks to Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} for fixing this.)

~~Convert to THREE categories or Keep~~. Generally, this is one of those lists that would work better as a self-maintaining category. However, there is some useful information in the list: IGDA members and AIAS members. If no one is ready to do the work of setting up all three categories, then we should keep the list for now so this information won't be lost. Capmango 04:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Good point. I'll see about doing that when I get some free time during this AfD. Category:Video game developers already exists, so I will make sub-categories for Category:IDGA member and Category:AIAS member (or versions with expanded acronyms). -- Kesh 04:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - In progress.... --Breno ^talk 08:22, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Done - Categories Category:Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences members and Category:International Game Developers Association members created and populated where applicable. Moved companies from the broad and overpopulated Category:Video game companies down into the subcat Category:Video game developers (and sorted into Category:Video game companies by nationality where known from article). I now have nintendo-thumb from all that clicking. --Breno ^talk 12:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - Impressed Thanks for all the work! I say we delete the list now. Capmango 15:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Categories can replace a list like this. Most of the red links on that page are not notable and shouldn't be on that list in the first place. Corpx 06:01, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Cats now setup as above. List no longer required. --Breno ^talk 12:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. QuagmireDog 18:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Due to categorisation by Breno, nicely done. QuagmireDog 18:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Another 0-9ABC list of blue-links, with no explanation of why they're here, this is a classic example of "a collection of indiscriminate information". If you care about avoiding deletion, consider adding the most notable product produced by each "developer", such as "Nintendo: Super Mario" Mandsford 22:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete in favor of categories, which are more efficient. Andre (talk) 23:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As per above --SkyWalker 17:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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