Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sparring (online role-playing)


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The result of the debate was merged consensus to merge Pegasus1138 Talk 21:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Sparring (online role-playing)
Apparent neologism. My attempts to find these supposed references, aside from the single one externally linked to, have turned up nothing. --InShaneee 03:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with Online text-based role-playing game. Assuming people really do spend their time doing this. --DaveG12345 08:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per DaveG12345. Yes, they do. --Coredesat 09:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per above, and these people should be spending their internet time here with us, doing some good *self-righteous smirk*. --TrianaC 11:39, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and add a brief note to online text-based roleplaying as article itself has only minor relevance to the main topic and elaborates on a subset of roleplaying that is little-known to the rest of the community. Defining this particular form of roleplaying would merit that attention be paid to other forms and subcultures involved in text-based roleplaying, thus needlessly bloating the OTRPG article. --Caliah 13:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge per Coredesat. Percy Snoodle 12:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

As to InShaneee's comment of not being able to find external sources, here are a few pages with rules for textual roleplay fighting, also known as sparring: http://tcmuseum.proboards54.com/ http://circ.lagedorre.net/rules.shtml http://forums.rpgchat.com/showthread.php?t=36375 --Circ Thursday, June 29th, 2006.

There's two separate communities here, one for roleplaying and the other for sparring. They tend to not mix well. They should be kept separate. Alighieri 17:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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