Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of spore games and expansions


 * 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   no consensus. Cirt (talk) 06:56, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

List of spore games and expansions

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The content included, to the extent it exists, is better served on the primary page of Spore. Even if a separate page is merited for the expansions, a page for a list of them is completely unnecessary. Tyrenon (talk) 04:31, 4 June 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 12:31, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  A category would also serve the purpose well, but linking only the notable ones, instead of becoming a link farm Corpx (talk) 06:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I cleaned it up a little. The advantage of a list, over a category, is that it can be annotated with the platform and release dates. However, a "Spore games" template could be created for this. I've really no objection to the list article, though. With the rate that EA are publishing Spore games, we will inevitably end up with something like List_Of_Sims_Games. Marasmusine (talk) 10:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 17:17, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete . Completely redundant to Spore (disambiguation). Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 17:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Strong delete as trivial list. Also agree with Haipa Doragon. Stifle (talk) 13:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per Marasmusine. I think that the disambig for Spore is too general and doesn't (and won't) provide enough context about red-linked variations where a list can be improved to do so. Hobit (talk) 21:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't a disambiguation page have redlinks too? Apart from that issue, this list seems to be doing very little that the dab page isn't doing. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 23:27, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * At the moment the list and the dab page are very simlar (though I don't know a dab page should have redlinks), but one thing a list can do is provide significant detail (say a few sentences) about topics not notable enough to have their own page. A believe a dab page is suppose to have a very short description, just enough to disambiguate.  Hobit (talk) 03:37, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a good point; I'd say, considering the page's age, I'd go for more of a weak keep now on the basis that it can be expanded to something resembling, say, List of Metroid media. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 16:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * From WP:DAB: It may contain redlinks to help editors create articles on notable entries However: Do not add links that merely contain part of the page title [...] Only add links to articles that could use essentially the same title as the disambiguated term. Disambiguation pages are not search indices. Thus, it is not appropriate to list the expansion packs in the dab page. Marasmusine (talk) 10:47, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.