Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lycanthrope (Dungeons & Dragons)


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The result was delete. The consensus is to delete as lacking notability. Barkeep49 (talk) 04:06, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Lycanthrope (Dungeons & Dragons)

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This article fails to establish notability. I don't necessarily agree that the source added de-PROD is really even about this in-universe topic. It's just a single sentence mentioning lycanthropy and vampirism in the context that some fundamentalist people thought playing D&D could lead to satanism and the belief in other such nonsensical extremes: "Other grandiose claims expressed a belief in lycanthropy and vampirism." There's no particular context linking this in-universe item to that real world nonsensical claim. Beyond that, it's a rather minor mention as well. TTN (talk) 12:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete As usual, non-notable monstercruft that fails GNG. The picture could probably be used in Lycanthrope or something.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 12:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. That one cited source is, as stated by the nom, an extremely trivial mention of lycanthropes in D&D, and not significant coverage.  It is also the only reliable, secondary source being used, which would not be enough to pass theWP:GNG.  Searching for further sources brings up the usual mixture of primary sources, in-universe game books, unreliable sources and brief, trivial mentions.  There also isn't really a good place to redirect to, as the actual Lycanthrope article is a redirect to Werewolves, which is what the term is actually referring to, where as D&D has always incorrectly used the name to cover all types of "were" creatures.  Rorshacma (talk) 16:20, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. DnD cruft, hopefully this year we can de-MonsterManual Wikipedia. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 20:21, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:FANCRUFT Chetsford (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There are other possible sources out there, so if this is not kept, please either move it to draft, or let me know and I will refund it to draft myself. BD2412  T 23:37, 12 February 2020 (UTC)


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