Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of free MMORPGs

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 no consensus to delete. W.marsh 17:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of free MMORPGs

We already have a list of MMORPGs, which contains only those which have articles; this seems to exist primarily to gather and promote those which are not significant enough to have articles. Weblinks aboud, but sources are absent. It needs either aggressive cleanup or removal as redundant cruft. Guy 13:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Keep with cleanup, contains many notable free MMORPGs, both free-with-pay-features, free-trial, and totally free. Many of those on the list do have their own articles. Maybe merge to list of MMORPGs, though the list is long enough already to be honest. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 14:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep While I agree this list needs cleanup, it's because of some poor presentation on the page, not because of any real problem. This list at least tries to organize things better than the alphabetical list of MMORPGs and should possibly be a model for that list to adopt. Mister.Manticore 14:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• First merge into List of MMORPGs. Then change List of MMORPGs into a table, one which mentions the MMORPG's name, genre, developer, publisher, and whether or not the MMORPG is free. --TBCΦtalk? 14:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
  • In that case the list should be sorted in a better way than alphabetical. Perhaps divide it into Free and Pay MMORPGs? Cost and genre are generally the two most obvious deciding factors, but I think cost is more useful than genre because of the disproportionate size of the various genres. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 14:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into List of MMORPGs.--Kf4bdy ^{talk contribs} 17:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Kf4bdy. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 02:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, that should have been merge per Kf4bdy. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 04:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Merge into List of MMORPGs, but in a separate section, then clean it up. (remove double-links and such) (Please respond on my talk page if you must)tinlv7
• Keep. This page does not violate any of Wikipedia's policies on advocacy or advertising since the content does not benefit any anyone specifically. Also, Mister.Manticore is right; the List of MMORPG's article should follow this article's model. Merging this article with that one would completely defeat this article's purpose for existing. The list of MMORPG's article should be completely redesigned. Cuziyq 08:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Which policy do you have in mind that states that advertising is OK as long as it doesn't "benefit anyone specifically"? The definition of spamming in WP:SPAM includes "self-promotion" as something that is unacceptable. — Haeleth Talk 13:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. If it's going to be merged into List of MMORPG's, then that list also needs to be cleaned up and made easier to read, possibly into tables and alphabetical as suggested by TBC, as the point of merging articles is not to make them harder to access/read. Also, if it's going to stay here, this page also needs to be cleaned up. Either way, there's lots of work to be done, but if merging brings no benefits, why do it in the first place? Ddcc 16:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge entries that qualify for inclusion under the WP:SOFTWARE proposal into the main list; remove anything that's clearly vanity. — Haeleth Talk 13:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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.