Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional universes in video games


 * 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 delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

List of fictional universes in video games

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I am sorry, but this seems a stupid list, you can have thousands of computer games in this list. This is kinda off-scope and goes into WP:OFFTOPIC. Govvy (talk) 10:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It was a red link; in a series containing lists for "film and television", "animation and comics", "literature" and "science fiction". Moondragon21 (talk) 10:48, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Govvy (talk) 11:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 11:25, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Those with blue links seem to just link to articles about the games or their universes. We do have articles for Universe of The Legend of Zelda, Universe of Kingdom Hearts, etc, but this list seems more like a list of fictional location not universes. Article seems more like Category:Video game locations than Category:Fictional universes.  Don't think there are enough valid links to make an article out of right now. Perhaps move it to the creator's draft space.   D r e a m Focus  15:38, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 15:55, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete on simply the name basis. We have very little clue how if these are meant to be "fictional" universes from the real one (only a few games purposely set this out, like No Man's Sky). If they are meant to be "fictional locations" as Dream Focus suggested, then the inclusion metric must absolutely be nailed down as there's far too many fictional locations in video games and that is a WP:TNT rational. Eg List of fictional planets, list of fictional countries, etc. -- and that might start going down too much of a rabbit hole. --M asem (t) 16:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Effectively unsourced, the only source being a passing mention confirming that Los Santos is the setting of Grand Theft Auto. All entries are misuse of the notion of a fictional universe, with The Sims 3 somehow listed twice, which means that there is no usable content whatsoever. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 16:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Rename to List of video game locations and make it the list of Category:Video game locations. List criteria should only be bluelinked articles. Right now inclusion criteria are totally WP:INDISCRIMINATE.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 17:15, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: I love a good list article but this one makes little to no sense for multiple reasons. First, many of the entries in the "universe" field make no sense.  For example, the Fallout games are set in the same "universe," just in different locations in the world.  Similarly, why are there two different "universes" for The Sims 3?  Second, this list is almost completely unsourced, suggesting that most of this is just OR or subjective opinions.  Third, as others have pointed out, this is really something that is better suited for a category (if anything) than a list.  Fourth, this list is potentially so broad as to be an indiscriminate grouping of things.  In other words, every game or series is, theoretically, part of its own universe.  That means that this list could potentially have tens of thousands of entries and be completely inoperable if it was anywhere close to complete.  Sorry to say, but this list needs to go.   DocFreeman24 (talk) 00:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per Masem, and also don't feel like typing out why. P  anini 🥪 20:43, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probably 90% of video games in existence could qualify here... indiscriminate list. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 11:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Is this article a joke? This article makes no sense as even the small amount of video games featured are not right. Why are games listed twice and only sections of them listed? Water Temple, The Sims 3, Megaton, etc. This is almost A11 material. Sorry if I got carried away. <b style="color: blue">AmericanAir88</b>(<b style="color: darkred">talk</b>) 19:24, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete ― Literally no reason to have something like this. Almost all video games use fictional words, ie this list is frivolous and doesn't make sense. Namcokid  47  20:18, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Why are video games as a medium, the odd one out; in reference to lists of universes in film and television, animation and comics, literature and science fiction. User:Moondragon21 21:03, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna say they aren't the odd one out and this is a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS issue. As in, if someone nominated the other ones for AfD they would also get deleted.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 20:28, 28 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete this isn't a notable topic or discriminate list. Every piece of fiction exist in its own fictional universe and you may as well list every video game here. I see that other areas like film and television have lists but I wish more projects like the video game Wikiproject were around to keep things organized to a certain level of quality. Archrogue (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:51, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Renaming won't solve the issue. Orientls (talk) 13:48, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


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