Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of open-source city-building games

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The result was delete. — The Earwig (talk) 03:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of open-source city-building games (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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This list is really poorly written and is almost totally dependent on Github for citing the existence of entities on this list. This list also feels largely redundant as a broader list, List of city-building video games is already in existence and is much more useful to a reader as it provides higher quality details at a quick glance. Theprussian (talk) 15:25, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:32, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:32, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as failing WP:LISTN. License type and genre are also an odd intersection. IceWelder [✉] 15:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - LISTN problem, and nothing to merge as they're already covered in the main list. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:36, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above --Masem (t) 17:49, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Theprussian and Rhododendron are mistaken, the List of city-building video games does not contain these items. I could see adding other sources such as fossgames or tjfree or freegamer etcetera for review content, but would keep Github as useful links to the games. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 21:59, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• It does. And to be clear, when I say "already covered" I'm referring to the notable examples with articles about them, not the ones that merely exist (which shouldn't be covered in either article -- very few lists on wikipedia are intended to be exhaustive). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:31, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Despite its name, this is just a classic "list of X in Y" that don't meet the policies for list articles. There's nothing particularly notable about the intersection of city-building games that are also open source. If someone wants to add them to the list of city-building games, then they should do that. But we don't need a separate list just for the licensing status of the games. DocFreeman24 (talk) 00:54, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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