Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of arcade video games: Not released

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:16, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of arcade video games: Not released[edit]

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Completely unsourced, this article contains a list of games struggling for independent notability due to all being unreleased. It's essentially a list of redlinks. Coin945 (talk) 01:37, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 December 25. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 01:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 02:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 02:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete listcruft that can easily be covered by an "Unreleased" under the year in the main list._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 18:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zxcvbnm FWIW this was split when the main article was separated due to size concerns (June 2013). Talk:List of arcade video games#Size split?. The decision to separate "Unreleased" games seems to be an editorial decision of the user making the alphabetical split. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:17, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This really needs to be considered in the context of similar content. We have Category:Cancelled video games, Category:Vaporware video games, List of vaporware... Is this intended to correspond to one of those categories? Is it duplicative of the video game section of the latter list? Can it be developed further, should it be merged or redirected somewhere else, or should it just be deleted? I don't know the answer, and neither does the nominator because there's no discussion of how this fits in with other content. WP:BEFORE and WP:ATD requires that we ask those questions before nominating anything for deletion. postdlf (talk) 20:56, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep as a category and many sub-categories already exist for Cancelled Video games. However this list has many issues regarding verifibility that need to be resolved. Ajf773 (talk) 02:33, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am not a fan of the current title. I th8nk something like List of unreleased arcade games comes off as more natural.--67.68.21.146 (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:17, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:14, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as listcruft of mostly red-linked entries. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:20, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-notable cruft by definition. Fails LISTN and can be better addressed through categories. James (^talk/_contribs) 20:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.