Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freely downloadable game software


 * 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 of the debate was merge. I'm not doing it myself, however, as I don't know which game should go in which list. A lot of the games are already in one or the other, but not all. Merge tags added. --Sam Blanning(talk) 11:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Freely downloadable game software
This page is a fork of List of open source games and List of freeware games created by an anon IP from the 86.* IP block. The reason given was that "there's really no reason why people should have to look at 3 different articles because of legal technicalities. To the vast majority of people, a "free game" is something that can be downloaded and played for free." This is contrary to Content forking and WP:NOT (in that Wikipedia is not a links directory). It is also impossible to keep in sync with the original lists. So, it should be deleted. &mdash; Saxifrage &#9998; 23:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to both of those above articles if required, depending on which game belongs to which article. --FlyingPenguins 19:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Free games is a disambiguation page that links to those lists, so it may be appropriate to make it a redirect there. &mdash; Saxifrage &#9998; 00:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

''This AfD is being relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that a decision may usefully be reached. Please add new discussion below this notice. Thanks!'' Mailer Diablo 04:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I believe this should either be split in two articles, or become two categories (which I believe they exist already). -- ReyBrujo 05:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per FlyingPenguins. -- E ivindt@c 23:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to the relevant lists, and redirect to free games. -Sean Curtin 18:44, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per above. Stifle (talk) 00:22, 9 May 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.