Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of World of Warcraft Races


 * 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   redirect to Warcraft (series).  MBisanz  talk 23:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

List of World of Warcraft Races

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I don't think that this subject is worthy of its own article and it's also poorly written at the moment Megaman en m (talk) 10:43, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It is common to use summary style to break out articles when including them in the main article would bloat it too much and poor writing is a reason for improvement rather than deletion (per WP:AFD). Do you have any other reasons? - Mgm|(talk) 11:59, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I just don't see how this would be notable since there really isn't much to tell. What can we include about the races? The appearances won't be enough. And there is no main plot in WoW so we can't tell about their role in the storyline. If we're going to start including they're abilities and so on, it'll break the fourth and sixth rule of WP:GAMECRUFT.--Megaman en m (talk) 12:13, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I just improved the grammar, spelling and so on.--Megaman en m (talk) 12:22, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge to World of Warcraft. Only a tiny amount of information here, and no reason it cannot be in the main article. JulesH (talk) 15:24, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge somewhere (World of Warcraft or Gameplay of World of Warcraft). The article doesn't have enough meat or notability to stand on its own, but I'm surprised this isn't already included in some other WoW article, because it's not some particularly long section that would bloat another article. It could also just be deleted under WP:GAMEGUIDE.--Boffob (talk) 15:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I don't see how this could be deleted under WP:GAMECRUFT? So should are we going to add a merge tag on the article? If so do we need to delete the warning or not?--Megaman en m (talk) 16:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 21:46, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge The lists I've seen get split off are usually very long. This is quite small in comparison. It should be rewritten to prose form and made a subsection. Ancemy (talk) 22:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Needless spin-out advised against by WP:VGSCOPE, in the case of WOW it is in the unusual position of having its own gameplay article, the races are already mentioned there. This is a new editor struggling to get to grips with our complicated system and doing what new editors do: latching onto an aspect of a larger subject and breaking it down into a list. It's easier to do that than to try and balance articles out etc., which is fair play, but that doesn't mean the content's needed in the first place. Looking at the text it would need to be written from scratch and cited anyway. Someoneanother 00:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Very weak Keep and add some information. As is, there's nothing substantial. DGG (talk) 04:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Warcraft (series), where all the relevant info is (and more!) Nifboy (talk) 16:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Warcraft (series) or other suitable target. We already have this information (although I won't attest to the quality of whats at that target). Simply an unnecessary spinout. -- Sabre (talk) 17:03, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect or smerge (slight merge): (see Smerge for definition). Not notable enough for its own article, due to a lack of significant coverage in reliable third-party sources. But I think a smerge gives us a good compromise between the sides in this dispute, and allows further action to be taken later -- whether a split, or further clean-up. Randomran (talk) 22:27, 13 December 2008 (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.