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Contents 1 Archived Discussion 2 Past deletion request 3 What qualifies as a "list"? 3.1 Zelda 4 Categories are better than lists 5 List of Windows games (excluding "Games for Windows" label) ? 6 Linux games 7 Change title to 'List of video games'?

[edit] Archived Discussion

Discussions no longer relevant to the active maintenance of this page have moved to a discussion archive subpage. Kolano 16:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Past deletion request

This article was nominated for deletion on 9th January, 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Sceptre ^(Talk) 10:13, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What qualifies as a "list"?

User:Touth has been adding a bunch of articles to this list, but the articles being added are generally not lists. (Specifically, Pac Man, Castlevania, Shining Force series, Dragon Quest, and Mortal Kombat series.) They contain lists, but are not themselves lists. The question is, should this article contain links to other articles that include lists, or only those other articles that are lists? Powers 01:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

This is an article about lists, not articles with lists. Tons of articles contain lists; there's no point in listing all of them here. Thus, we should only add articles that are a list, not ones that simply contain one. I'm reverting Touth's edits again; if he has a problem with it, he can discuss it here. -- LGagnon 15:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I think both should be on this page if only LGagnon would let me do it and anyway why should they have to start with the wordslist of? i think the series articles should be here too! Touth 20:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

We already have an article for series; that's List of computer and video game franchises. This article is a list of lists, not series. We're not going to be redundant and have the same content here as in the franchise list. -- LGagnon 20:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with LGagnon, please leave these articles off the page. --ADeveria 22:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I also agree with LGagnon - they're not for here.HawkerTyphoon 23:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zelda

Touth, stop adding the Zelda link. It's not a list, and thus does not belong in this article. I've told you this again and again, that only lists should be linked from this article. I don't care if you can't create a list because it's a redirect; what matters is that only lists are supposed to be listed here. -- LGagnon 01:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories are better than lists

Shouldn't one expect a list of all computer and video games here instead of a list of lists? This just reminds me of all those pr0n lists out there. ;)
I know this would be an insanely long list, but still. Currently, this list and the Category:Lists of games is redundant. -- Lightkey 04:34, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why have lists, when you can have categories that are easy to update? Chris Pickett 21:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

• Many of these lists contain more details than seems to be available through the default Categorization functionality (i.e. release dates, region info, publishers, etc.)
• Many of the entries in these lists are the only info in Wikipedia on these titles (i.e. there are lots of games that still need pages created), so to maintain complete lists via categories requires significant effort to create all the stub pages.

Though perhaps some wiki guru knows good solutions to those issues. Perhaps Generated Lists? Kolano 02:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't see any problem with the lists. A good percent of lists are categories already (List of Wii games: all games are listed under a Wii games cat as one example): but that doesn't mean one should be deleted, to favor the other. RobJ1981 03:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

• Maybe I'm too much of a newb to know how to use them but, categories don't seem to show up readily via the Wikipedia search feature.

• Possibly due to the above, the list pages seem to get significant amounts more traffic. Comparing the discussion pages of a few of the lists vs. their equivalent category shows this. Especially since the lists can show missing titles, they also provide useful centralized locations for content improvement projects.

Kolano 07:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Windows games (excluding "Games for Windows" label) ?

As the subject says, where is this category? Under PC, there is Mac, MS-DOS and the new "Games for Windows" label but no regular Windows category. Should this be added, or is there a reason not to add it? ---Majestic- 20:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering the same thing, but I suppose the end product would become absolutely huge, even if we limited it to every notable game release from Windows 95 and onwards. As such, I suppose it might be a bit too big a project to undertake. But hey, if someone out there feels like it... go for it. This category would be a welcome addition. --RoyalFool 19:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linux games

Why is there still no list of Linux games. Linux is growing enough mainstream now to have it's own list I think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.78.165.201 (talk) 13:44, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change title to 'List of video games'?

We should change the title to 'List of video games' instead of 'Lists...'? WinterSpw 02:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

No. SharkD 08:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with SharkD. The article doesn't contain a list of video games – instead, it's a list of lists of video games... Tommy Kronkvist talk contribs —Preceding comment was added at 14:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)