- 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 delete. With a clear consensus for deletion, it's game over for this article. North America 1000 01:28, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
List of video games by daily active users
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This can never be a reliable encyclopedic article. Trying to create a list based on daily rankings means having reliable daily sources. We don't have sources that are accurate to this date, which means that this list is inherently unverifiable. On the other hand, if we did find a reliable third party that was publishing daily user data, we'd essentially be updating this daily as some sort of news page, and Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. Either way, this isn't something we can cover properly. Jontesta ( talk) 21:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Jontesta ( talk) 21:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Delete: Could never be accurate. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 21:29, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Delete, maintenance of this list on even the most rudimentary basis is impossible. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 11:19, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 23:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:SYNTH and WP:NOR. Sources given are based on a single point in time that differs each entry. Unreliable data and requires a lot of maintenance to keep it factually up to date. Ajf773 ( talk) 00:13, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete: Will never be accurate and hard to update regularly. ARegularWisconsinite (talk) 01:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete: It is almost impossible to keep this list up-to-date Olaf Kosinsky ( talk) 08:22, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per Ajf773. " WP:SYNTH and WP:NOR. Sources given are based on a single point in time that differs each entry. Unreliable data and requires a lot of maintenance to keep it factually up to date." // Timothy :: talk 14:59, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete not suitable unless a wikidata source or some automated means can be found. Awbfiend ( talk) 19:13, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete unless possible to automate this article. Balle010 ( talk) 18:22, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- delete even if we put aside WP:OR, and WP:SYNTH; wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. There is no encyclopaedic value behind "which game was played the most yesterday". Keeping the article is not even in question as the article is not encyclopaedic to begin with. We already have "YYYY in video gaming" ( 2019 in video games). A brief note can be added in such articles, based on third party observations. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:53, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per
WP:DEL-REASON 6:
Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and articles that are themselves hoaxes (but not articles describing notable hoaxes)
. This is impossible to source and maintain in a way that would result in acceptable quality for a Wikipedia article. There's a reason we don't have an article called today's weather. TompaDompa ( talk) 22:28, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
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