Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ancient Rome video games


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  05:40, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

List of Ancient Rome video games

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Video game genres are based upon gameplay elements, not narrative or setting. That the historical era of Ancient Rome might appear in video games might be true, but Ancient Rome video game is not a genre. This makes this WP:SYNTH (possibly WP:OR) of a particular historical era  that happens to represented in video games. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 12:27, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Weak Keep: Ancient Rome is a common setting in many video games. Since it is a specific location in video games, this article should be kept. However, the article needs more citations for verification as well as some clean up. Yoshiman6464 (talk) 16:40, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I appreciate you replying here and also agreeing with me on my other AfD's. To me, a setting in a video game doesn't seem notable. It's also arbitrary, Ancient Rome mostly refers to Ancient Roman civilization, not just the city of Rome proper or even the Roman Empire. I mean, what's the cut-off? Plenty of games are set in New York City for instance, which is part of the state of New York and the United States of America. "List of video games set in the United States" seems very unwieldy to me. And if the setting of Ancient Rome in video games is somewhat notable, shouldn't we start out with an article like "Ancient Rome in video games" (or "Portrayal of Ancient Rome in video games" or something like that) that describes the portrayal, before having a list of video games that lists those games, without context? soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 13:22, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Good points. However, if we were to create such an article, the information from that list would be merged into that page. One of the few sources I could find is a top 10 list on Paste Magazine: https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/11/the-10-best-roman-videogames.html Yoshiman6464 (talk) 14:32, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - That something is true/exists doesn't mean it should be on Wikipedia. There are inexhaustible "specific locations in video games". In order for this not to be WP:OR, and in order for it to pass WP:NLIST, we need to see some citations of sources which also group games according to being set in Rome. I searched and only turned up this listicle at Paste Magazine. Happy to change my !vote if others turn up, but I'm not seeing them. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 13:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unnecessary page. Before this is deleted though, create Category:Video games set in Ancient Rome based off this list.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   08:52, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm not too familiar with categories, is there an easy way of doing so? soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 13:22, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There is already a similar category called Category:Video games set in the Roman Empire. However, that category refers to the Roman Empire, not the Ancient City of Rome itself. Also, I redirected the "Video games set in Ancient Rome" category to an already existing category. Yoshiman6464 (talk) 13:45, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * We've got Category:Video games set in Rome, which is about the city. I think we should move Category:Video games set in the Roman Empire to Category:Video games set in Ancient Rome, as the Roman Empire refers to the time when Rome was an empire, while Ancient Rome also includes the Republic of Rome. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 13:50, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * You could use HotCat to put the remaining pages into categories.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   22:24, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


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