Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of most successful crowdfunding projects


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The result was   keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:20, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

List of most successful crowdfunding projects

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This is a redundant list of successful crowdfunding projects. See Kickstarter. Furthermore, including projects that failed to make their goals, such as Ubuntu Edge, gives them undue weight. Having said that, it's clear that a significant amount of work went into the page, so I hope the debate will be fruitful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nowa (talk • contribs)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 01:21, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 01:21, 9 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Kickstarter. The Ubuntu Edge was not successful, therefore it shouldn't be on the list. That leaves the top 17 as Kickstarter projects, making it an unnecessarily redundant list. Ansh666 05:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to be a content dispute, which shouldn't be settled at AfD. If there is consensus that unsuccessful projects should be removed, and all the projects not on Kickstarter are thereby removed, it would be reasonable to redirect. But until then, since this list includes projects not on Kickstarter, it doesn't make any sense to redirect. --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:26, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The problem here is the title: what does "most successful" mean? Is it the ones that got the most money, or the ones that succeeded? Seems like the latter. Ansh666 16:34, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep and consider sorting list by both most money raised and market cap. Candleabracadabra (talk) 22:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comments: I think those projects who raised the most money deserve to be mentioned in the top, including those who failed their goals. Probably the list should be renamed to a more appropriate title like Top crowdfunding projects by the amount raised. The list at Kickstarter is good and has better columns, but there are also good top projects on Indiegogo. Maybe all the projects that raised more than $1,000,000 deserve to be in the list, but I stopped at $2 million (almost) because it was too much work to do for that. Another reason why this list should exist: since Star City (the most successful crowdfunded project) raised most of its money after it's Kickstarter campaign, it's not even included at Kickstarter. —  Ark25  (talk) 15:48, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Could you double check the Star City link?--Nowa (talk) 17:23, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I meant Star Citizen. —  Ark25  (talk) 07:25, 12 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep, but consider re-naming to remove wording "most successful", which is surely subjective and non-neutral? DaveApter (talk) 11:57, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Rename, as "most successful" is completely subjective. "Success" seems to be measured here in number of dollars raised, so the article should be retitled accordingly.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 01:17, 15 September 2013 (UTC).
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