Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of playable characters in the WWF/E 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. Liz Read! Talk! 04:47, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

List of playable characters in the WWF/E video games

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Big ol' heap of WP:GAMETRIVIA, a list of characters appearing in video games based upon WWE/WWF wrestling franchises. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 03:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:GAMETRIVIA, clearly not important content. echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  06:18, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and Lists. Shellwood (talk) 10:37, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - as the nom suggests, this is one giant chunk of WP:GAMECRUFT made into its own article. Sergecross73   msg me  11:08, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Is there a way to save this information? I know someone like me would find this sort of information important although it may not meet the current WP guidelines. GR 86  (📱) 13:35, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You could possibly create something like this on Fandom (or jsut copy it to Fandom while making sure to provide attribution) but I'm not entirely sure. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per everyone in this nom so far. While we do sometimes have lists of characters in movies, that's usually because they are notable but not enough to have their own articles. However this is basically just a list of every wrestler that has participated in WWF/E and was in the games. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:03, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Obviously biased because of the time spent, but keep. I see this as no different to any of the ones in Category:Lists_of_video_game_characters, with the exception that there's an article for each character. The trivia sub-section could probably be removed since it's not too important (although one or two of the stats might be). But there's literally 500 different individuals who appeared in these video games, and I think this is the best way to display that. With 30+ years of games, I think it's notable enough. I'd honestly rather have this than a roster page on each game's article (which some have, and some don't, and it's inconsistent). Xanarki (talk) 14:19, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The existence of a trivia subsection is a violation of WP:NOTTRIVIA. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:34, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * These playable characters are based upon real people, they're not fictional characters with creation, development, reception. Imagine having a list of every playable association football (soccer) player that has appeared in FIFA or American football players appearing in Madden. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 15:49, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh god I can see the massive amounts of cruft in those articles already... ― Blaze WolfTalk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 16:03, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah I understand the association. I just figured, in my personal opinion, since the WWF/E games aren't actually sports titles + there's a consistency of the games being associated to one singular company (WWE), that an organized list wouldn't be farfetched. The wrestlers also has defined personalities and backgrounds (thus why they're listed with ring names), as opposed to (most) sports players who are only known for their stats. Pretty much everyone besides me seems to disagree on these points though, so I'll stop banging the drum on it. Xanarki (talk) 16:23, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * "since the WWF/E games aren't actually sports titles" What do you mean? I'm fairly sure Wrestling is considered a sport and therefore these would be sports titles. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 17:16, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, in a traditional sense, professional wrestling isn't a sport. It's scripted programming with physical scenes, not much different from an action movie or an action-based soap opera. There's many sources that places wrestling video games as a subgenre of the fighting genre instead of the sports genre. If there was an Olympics mat-based 1-on-1 wrestling video game (does that exist...? must be extremely slow-paced if it does), then that would be more suitable under the sports genre. But since the WWF/E games are different, they are more closely associated to the fighting genre. That's simply the perspective I took, and is the basis as to why I think the page has similar qualities to other fighting games' lists. Xanarki (talk) 17:27, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Huh. I didn't actually know that. Thanks for informing me. Man professional wrestling must be boring to watch if you know what's gonna happen. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 17:41, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Transwiki to a gaming and/or wrestling wiki. This is not the level of detail that belongs on Wikipedia but many wikis would kill for this kind of data already formatted. Axem Titanium (talk) 18:22, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Transwiki-ing refers to Wikis owned by Wikimedia — VersaceSpace  🌃 20:39, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:GAMECRUFT, does not need a separate article just to point out these small insignificant facts that are related to the game itself. Ajf773 (talk) 08:34, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete or transwiki per Axem Titanium. This is fundamentally inappropriate for Wikipedia as we are not a WP:GAMEGUIDE. But maybe someone can find it a valid home. Shooterwalker (talk) 00:07, 5 November 2022 (UTC)


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