Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ghost video games

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) SST flyer 11:04, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of ghost video games

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I'm also nominating the following:

Redundant list articles, already covered by their respective categories. See this discussion. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 14:06, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 14:19, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:41, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, meritless nomination. First, the only deletion rationale is contra WP:NOTDUP and so fails on that score. Second, every one of these lists is annotated with such information as year of release, platform, or developers, and so obviously provide more information than the categories do. I'm wondering whether this might even be a WP:SK#3, as it's such a clearly erroneous nomination that it makes me wonder how much the nominator even looked at the lists in question or relevant guidelines. postdlf (talk) 21:43, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. As noted by WP:CLN, lists of this sort are valuable even when there are corresponding categories. For example, the category includes nothing but the article names themselves, and it excludes nonexistent pages. I ended up at the List of World War I video games list while looking for a specific World War I game published in the 1990s — had I been stuck with using the category only, I would have had to look at most or all of the pages (as I don't remember the precise name) to determine which of them had been published in the 1990s, and I still wouldn't have seen anything about the Great Naval Battles V: Demise of the Dreadnoughts game that's mentioned in the list. Nyttend (talk) 05:06, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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