Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Vecna

Analysis of third party sources

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Well, its a blog, but hosted by a major publisher of fantasy works, but by Tim Callahan (not the geologist) The Comic Book Columnist and Mordicai Knode who lives in "Metropolis" -

Even if "reliability" is passed, there are additional issues: content. The source is just has just one sentence in which the blogger notes that the name "Vecna" is an anagram of "Vance" who wrote books that inspired the way magic works in D&D. Clearly not significant content about the subject of the article.

-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  16:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC) Wired review of the 4th edition Dungeon Masters Guide. A product review in a reliable third party source!
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Content about this subject: Well zero about Vecna. One paragraph about the use of one artifact (Hand of Vecna - identified as "Classic"). The focus of the paragraph is how the concept of "concordance" works with regard to all artifacts in the 4th Edition rules and nothing about the fictional character. One could argue that there is "content" about the artifact Hand of Vecna, but hardly significant and solely in context of other topics: the new edition of the game and how artifacts work. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:23, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

This is a WOTC primary source, and nothing about the subject just another gaming device that includes Vecna in its in universe content. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:25, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Buccaneers Guild

A vague reference to some website? that appears somewhere? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:28, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * "Michael, Michael. "Vecna - Four ways Jack Vance influenced Dungeons & Dragons". Missing or empty |url= (help)"
 * a little more research indicates that the site is probably http://www.examiner dot com/list/four-ways-jack-vance-influenced-dungeons-dragons/vecna which is an appropriately blacklisted website and certainly not a reliable source. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  11:57, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

A wiki - not a reliably published source. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:30, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Nethack Wiki