Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of actors who have played video game characters (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

List of actors who have played video game characters
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This was no-consensus in 2009, and then kept in 2012, but the lead article in the bundled 2012 AfD was deleted at a quieter 2nd AfD 5 years later. The real question here is simple: Is this something people talk about as a set? Not just the concept of live-action media based on video games but, specifically, actors in such media. I see articles about specific subsets of this cohort—Game Informer ("respected" actors), Business Insider ("terrible" movies)—but there does not seem to be any RS interest in the general concept of actors who've played characters who happen to originate from video games. And, importantly, such a list does not appear useful to anyone. This gets 120 views per month. It is not linked from any other articles. Its only recent "improvements" have been a slate of IMDb refs (the only references in the list). As cross-categorization goes, this is both arbitrary and unimportant. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 10:53, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Lists of people,  and Video games.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 10:53, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:LISTN and also seems pretty WP:INDISCRIMINATE as well as a non-defining trait.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:03, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete Per WP:OLIST as an over-extensive list with no obvious cutoff that will need constant updates. Or, for the policy based reason, WP:INDISCRIMINATE. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:37, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:IINFO. Agree this isn't a defining trait for a list. Shooterwalker (talk) 18:00, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trivial, "x person who did x thing". Suitable for WP:TVTROPES. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 17:00, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


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