Forum:TC:Category:Video game consoles

This page is an archive of the Trash compactor discussion about the future of Wookieepedia's coverage of the topic(s) listed below, including whether or not to delete or redirect the relevant page(s). This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the relevant talk pages or in the Senate Hall forum rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Redirect all. —spookywilloww^talk 16:13, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Video game consoles (history - links - logs - delete - protect)

This is pretty straight forward. I'm putting up a TC to delete all video game console articles. As it currently stands, those articles are only used to list games that came out in that specifc console, which a category can do just as well and without the mess that comes with making an article. If you take a look below, some of these articles doesn't even need to be on here to begin with, such as Steam.

I'm not doing a subvote, but rather a massive sweep (bc there are way too much for that). Moving forward with the deletion, we can just pipelink game consoles to their respective Wikipedia articles instead. Additionally, we can also add auto inclusion for console categories similar to how year publication categories are auto included when you fill in the "Release date" field.

These are the affected articles:

• 32X
• 3DO
• Android (operating system)
• Atari 2600
• Atari 5200
• Atari 8-bit
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Dreamcast
• Google Stadia
• Intellivision
• iOS
• Linux
• Mac
• Nintendo
  • Game Boy Advance
  • Game Boy Color
  • Nintendo 3DS
  • Nintendo 64
  • Nintendo DS
  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Nintendo Game Boy
  • Nintendo GameCube
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Wii
  • Wii U
• Oculus Quest
• Personal computer
• PlayStation
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 3
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• PlayStation Portable
• PlayStation Vita
• R-Zone
• Sega CD
• Sega Game Gear
• Steam
• Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox Cloud Gaming
  • Xbox Live (disambiguation)
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X/S

Do want to add that while a bunch of Sega and Atari consoles are listed above, I'm not including the Sega and Atari company itself as part of the deletion since those companies did make arcade games for Star Wars. Bonzane10 11:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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1. As nominator. Bonzane10 11:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
2. 01miki10 ^{Open comlink} 12:04, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
3. NanoLuuke^{Cloning Facility} 12:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
4. Ayrehead02 (talk) 12:27, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
5. I was surprised to discover these even existed at all a few days ago.MTrac1000 (talk) 13:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
6. Cade Calrayn 13:51, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
7. per Nano below OOM 224 14:02, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
8. <-Omicron^{(Leave a message at the BEEP!)} 14:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
9. JMAS ^{Hey, it's me!} 14:25, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
10. Fan26 (Talk) 15:03, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
11. I never wanted to hurt you Gameboy/Nintendo DS. I love you. NBDani (they/them)^{Yeager's Repairs} 15:55, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
12. I've always hated these. And any information on collaborations with LF and a console manufacturer can go on the manufacturer's article instead. Master Fredcerique(talk) (he/him) 16:14, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
13. CometSmudge (talk) 16:38, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
14. ThrawnChiss7 ^{Assembly Cupola} 19:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
15. As a resident video game preservationist and outright video game developer... yeaaaaah I've never seen much of a reason that we even have these. - Thannus (DFaceG) (he/him) (talk) 20:17, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
16. Lewisr (talk) 06:05, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
17. ThePedantry (talk) 23:01, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
18. JMM (talk) 16:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

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Comments

• I will put my comment on Discord here too: this should be followed with a CT to Wookieepedia:Notability policy, reading something like "Wookieepedia does not maintain articles for computers, operating systems, video game consoles and online distribution platforms." to prevent the creation of any missing past and future platforms. NanoLuuke^{Cloning Facility} 12:13, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Absolutely! Bonzane10 12:20, 30 January 2025 (UTC)