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The result was delete. Daniel ( talk) 09:33, 4 September 2021 (UTC) reply

List of Video Game Data

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Article doesn't have any scope; it's just a list of video games with some randomly-selected data. To satisfy completeness, this article would need to list every single video game ever developed. It feels unnecessarily trivial, and belongs on a wiki or in a sandbox. – Rhain ☔ 11:58, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. – Rhain ☔ 11:58, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply

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• Keep I can just remove the copies sold and notes colums and add the development time colum instead. That way i don't have to list every single video game. Timur9008 ( talk) 15:16, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply

That doesn't fix the problem, nor does it remove the need to list every single game. This is just a list of random data, which is inappropriate for Wikipedia. – Rhain ☔ 12:36, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply

• Delete Per WP:NOT. Appears to be an effort to circumvent the LISTCRITERIA scoping of List of most expensive video games to develop. This is an indiscriminate collection of information that has 100,000s of potential entries. Additionally, there's no real way to meet LISTN for this as it's just a general "list of data". -- ferret ( talk) 13:14, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete Just by the title alone it violates WP:NOTDATABASE, so there is not much more to say. The article's content backs up its title - an indiscriminate list of information with no context. _{ZXCVBNM ( TALK)} 14:22, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete. This is just an arbitrary list of facts about video games. Fails WP:NLIST and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Qwaiiplayer ( talk) 14:32, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete Completely indiscriminate with virtually no scope TarkusAB ^{talk/ contrib} 15:26, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete I don't want to sound discouraging to the article creator, so may I suggest to them that they (if they find this type of data interesting) write about this within articles on individual games instead? "Video game data" does, as others have mentioned, mean an indiscriminate collection of information with no defined scope, and so is inappropriate as a concept for an encyclopedic list article.-- Alexandra ^IDV 16:48, 28 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete per WP:LISTN. Not a lot of context to this list article and appears to have no real incusion criteria. Ajf773 ( talk) 02:28, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• delete - WP:LISTN and WP:NOT. There's also suitable overlap with other topics, and isn't defined. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{( talk • contribs)} 13:48, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete One of the stupidest examples of WP:NOTSTATS I've seen. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 17:05, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Possible merge to video game development. A bullet list of the top known development budgets for games (perhaps when over a threshold) would be fair to give an example of costs. I just wouldn't break it down like this as a standalone. -- Masem ( t) 20:12, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply

  Already exists at List of most expensive video games to develop. -- ferret ( talk) 20:18, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply

  Aha wasn't aware of that list. I'm going to expand a section in the development article to use that link, but that makes my !vote here a Delete. -- Masem ( t) 21:11, 29 August 2021 (UTC) reply

• Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Scope is extremely vague, while article capture just a tiny fraction of it. Parring it down to a manageable size would just end up making it redundant to various other lists about sales or budget. Not fixable or manageable. Sergecross73 msg me 16:04, 30 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete per above. This has to be the most disjointed article on the internet, no real connections, most of this list isn't even complete and the title not only doesn't make sense in regards to the contents of the article, but is really vague in general. I get the feeling this article was meant to prove something, but what that something is I have no clue. Captain Galaxy 19:43, 30 August 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete "Video Game Data" does not have a specific definition and it could include any video game related stuff. This list is vague, original research, personal analysis, and POV material. Wario-Man ^talk 03:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC) reply

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