Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Eidos games

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. v/r - T P 15:50, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of Eidos games

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This page contains a random list of titles from SCi, Eidos and Square Enix. Many of the games listed were not published by Eidos, but by SCi prior to the merger. Many titles are missing, including titles such as Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and Daikatana. Games published by Eidos, SCi and Square Enix can already be found on those respective pages. Furthermore, a category page "Category:Eidos Interactive games" exists which contains a far better list. In short, the page here is missing large number of titles and includes many that have no place here according to the description of the page MrMarmite (talk) 11:43, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per WP:CLN, if the category is better then use that to improve the list. Warden (talk) 12:43, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — A very notable developer with a large library of published games. The list is incomplete, but that's easily fixed. Master&Expert (Talk) 13:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment The article describes itself as "This is a list of games published and/or developed by the Square Enix subsidiary Eidos plc (formerly SCi), including its own fully owned subsidiaries" Eidos PLC was not "formerly SCi". SCi acquired Eidos Interactive and was in turn acquired by Square Enix. Eidos, was formed by the reverse take-over of Eidos PLC by Domark, Simis and Big Red. So what is this list aiming for, the list of all games developed and/or published by Eidos and/or Sci? Before they became one company or only after they became one company? If before, then why would there be a list of game developed/published by two non-related developers? If after the merger, then this would be a list of game developed/published by Eidos after it was acquired by Sci but before SCi, trading as Eidos, was acquired by Square Enix. What is so special about this snapshot of their history? I am not sure what the aim of this page is, or what particular moment in either Eidos's or SCi's history this is trying to capture. MrMarmite (talk) 15:51, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:20, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:20, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 17:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as content fork, since the games are also listsed on the page of the sofwtare house. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:08, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Rcsprinter (orate) 18:43, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and Expand per Warden. A cat is no substitute for a list article. Outback the koala (talk) 16:48, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Expand to what though? See previous comment. There is no clarity on what "era" of Eidos this page is meant to cover. If it's Eidos games, why does the list contain SCi games from before the merger? Games are already listed on the Eidos Interactive, Crystal Dynamics and other pages. Should this include all US Gold and Simis titles from before their merger with Eidos?MrMarmite (talk) 02:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Wikipedia is Not Paper. We can be as detailed as we like; there is no limit to the amount of content that could be contributed, it seems to me that there is a willingness for that to happen here. Therefore to delete this content would be extreme, unwise, and unwarrented. I don't see an issue with linking to a main article for a developer. Outback the koala (talk) 20:47, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - At the very least a merge could be made. Outback the koala (talk) 20:49, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - But the question remains, what is the aim of this page? What era of Eidos is it trying to capture? MrMarmite (talk) 00:28, 16 December 2011 (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.