Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Overview of Class Roles in World of Warcraft


 * 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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. I'm going to list it for transwiki, after which this debate can be revisited; replacing transwiki by delete in this debate produces a borderline debate that ins't enough on its own. There are very plain OR problems, and people should stop being soft o those. -Splash talk 23:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

An Overview of Class Roles in World of Warcraft
A lot of work has gone into this page but it is fancruft and reeks of original research. Reyk 09:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Add references. -- JJay 10:04, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep if references and confirmation of external peer review can be provided. If these can't be provided, delete outright as original research. Saberwyn - The Zoids  Expansion Project 10:12, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete with extreme prejudice. This article embodies everything I despise about wikipedia: poorly written original research on gamecruft with extreme POV (warrior is the best class etc). At least run this through a spellchecker, for God's sakes. Rouge. Sheesh. P.S. www.gamefaqs.com Flyboy Will 10:25, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Would need extreme cleanup if kept. --Quarl 10:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, or serious cleanup, "Wikipedia is not gamefaqs.com" Scoo 11:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:ISNOT GameFAQs. RasputinAXP  talk contribs 11:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I posted it in its present state just to see if I had the formatting correct so far. Needs improvement, I haven’t figured out how to do internal or external links yet.  Thanks for catching the Rouge/Rogue error, I never have been able to figure out how to spell French words (they seem to relate to vowels in a way entirely alien to me) and I did run it through a spell checker (though not for God's sake).  FYI, I went out of my way to leave out any POV, I hated playing warrior and enjoy playing Warlock, so looking at he article now I can see accidentally put a reverse bias in instead.  Expected to have time to develop the article as I learned how Wiki articles are formatted (was just happy to figure out to use three equals signs for subheadings on this go), and wasn’t expecting such a strong ire, nor such an immediate reaction.  I use Wiki all the time and figured the first article I wrote should be about something fairly innocuous and uncontroversial (like a silly video game) and one that I am relatively familiar with from all the articles/post I’ve read on the subject.  Had no Idea that I would be befouling such sacrosanct and hallowed ground with my “fancruft.”  Much thanks for so swiftly pointing out the error of my ways.  Wiping article now, you guys have fun. Churchofmau 11:50, 25 December 2005 (UTC) ChurchofMauPOTATOgmail.com
 * Delete per RasputinAXP . -feydey 14:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with main Warcraft article. Endomion 16:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikibooks. It doesn't fit here, but it deserves to survive and would fit perfectly over there. karmafist 16:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki per karmafist. A lot of actual work went into this. (ESkog)(Talk) 17:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I suggest other voters look into this more carefully before discussing what to do. Believe it or not, World of Warcraft is a category at Wikipedia with three subcategories.  Obviously it's impossible to merge all of that with the main article.  If some of it belongs at Wikibooks then it ought to be studied systematically, not done piecemeal.  Most of these articles have an active base of contributors.  This isn't the mad project of one individual.  There are issues to be addressed, such as the overuse of screen shots.  However since none of the rest of this material is under challenge and this particular article fits within a framework that's being accepted, my opinion is to let it stay. Durova 19:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It's original research, and will always remain that way. There's a perfectly acceptable medium for this kind of stuff, gamefaqs.com. Flyboy Will 19:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOR. --Apostrophe 20:52, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --  Dalbury ( Talk )  22:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm a hopeless addict of the game and still I can say without any hesitation that this kind of thing does not belong on Wikipedia in any form.  As stated above there are numerous forums and the like where this kind of work would be appreciated and useful, but here is not one of them. Arkyan 00:40, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopedic. Pavel Vozenilek 05:46, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Transwiki not encyclopedic material.  Grue   17:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki as per karmafist. Scoo 12:18, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, clean-up and Rename to List of character classes in World of Warcraft Chanlord 04:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.