Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikigames

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 17:47, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikigames
Wikipedia is not a free webhosting provider. This page proposes an entire wikigames-subproject. It's bad enough that we tolerate these things in the sandbox. Games can be played on http://games.wikicities.com/ which has specific wikigame-extensions; even if such a project was actually to be proposed as part of Wikimedia (whose mission is to distribute free knowledge and which is funded by donations given by people who expect that we use their money as such), it would belong on Proposals for new projects, not in the Wikipedia: namespace of the English Wikipedia. Note that there's also an edit war on this page with SDSUPinoy preferring this version. The page also nicely demonstrates the problem with wikigames; it was created by a user who has been doing nothing but playing and creating them, not ever contributing to the actual encyclopedia. It is often alleged that games on Wikipedia reduce wikistress. Given the record so far, I have doubts about that. --Eloquence* 02:28, July 20, 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. SDSUPinoy's version is misleading in suggesting this forms a demonstration wiki, which it does not. The page only serves to promote games that were previously "hidden" in the sandbox. This gives too much credibility to a set of pages that ought to have been deleted, and gives the impression that anyone can set up a test wiki within Wikipedia, over-riding the proposals for new projects policy. Angela. 02:33, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Their introduction more or less admits that this project is contrary to Wikipedia policy. --malathion talk 03:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not project-related. (Just to clarify, these are the same games listed on WP:FUN) Gazpacho 04:22, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Beland 04:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:Angela. JamesBurns 09:05, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete james gibbon  12:17, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete pointless page -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 15:03, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep They are actually quite fun, they've got a whole league going there on the chess page, stop being so boring. --Differentgravy 20:22, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I like it. --Irishpunktom\talk 20:25, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. If I liked sucking your blood, would I be entitled to do so? This Wikigames nonsense is nothing less than parasitism and should be quashed as soon as possible. Binadot 21:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No, but if you made a game about such a scenario on allowed wikipedia editors to play said game it'd be cool --Irishpunktom\talk 23:40, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Eloquence. Strong nomination thoroughly convinced me. Xoloz 02:51, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm, the database for this Wikipedia fits in two CD-Rs and a few spare floppies.  The onus of a page like this on the Wikimedia foundation is negligible.  Almafeta 02:47, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This could be said for every page ever listed on VfD. The reason for the nomination was not "takes storage space".--Eloquence* 07:27, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Eloquence and Angela. -Sean Curtin 02:51, July 25, 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.