Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EverQuest Slang, Acronyms, Lingo

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Paul August ☎ 15:53, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EverQuest Slang, Acronyms, Lingo

Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a lexicon of MMORPG terms. Delete. Essjay · Talk 05:09, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as per Essjay. --Apyule 05:48, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
• The guide to EverQuest on Wikibooks now has a Glossary of terms. It may seem familiar. ☺ Uncle G 12:04:12, 2005-08-12 (UTC)
• Delete because there is already a WikiBooks chapter on EverQuest Glossary (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/EverQuest/Glossary), and because I do not think every single game (or other "thing") should have a list of jargon in an encyclopedia (there is a policy to avoid dictionary definitions?), and also because the EverQuest article already has a list of the most common terms specific to the game. Finally I suggest, if the article is kept, it should be renamed to conform to the naming convention regarding capitalization of title. -- Ajshm 15:37, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
• Do not delete This appears to be a growing list of terms that are not covered in other articles, including the EverQuest article. Suggest 1> this article should remain and the list inside the existing EverQuest article should be removed, and a link published to this article, or 2> this list should replace the existing list inside the EverQuest article, or 3> we should adhere to the policy regarding dictionary definitions and remove all lists from the EverQuest article, and publish a link to this text where it resides on Wikibooks, or 4> we remove all lists from all EverQuest article, encourage the author to host the file on his site, and publish an off-site link to his text, or 5> we remove all such dictionary lists from Wiki and actively discourage their future creation.
  • comment: unsigned 1st and 2nd edits by IP 12.160.150.101, though this one does have more defs than its Wikibooks counterpart, he's right to suggest transwiki (or at least transmerge). Marblespire 01:27, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
    • The Wikibook glossary has exactly the same number of definitions; and transwikification was not one of xyr suggestions. Uncle G 02:29:02, 2005-08-13 (UTC)
• Merge into the appropriate l33tspeak article. Does cover quite a bit, though. -Hmib 01:11, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delte per Ajshm. --Nandesuka 05:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Visual77 I think we should remove this page, merge all terms into the MMORPG terms and acronyms article, and then format that article into multiple sections, one for general terms that exist in multiple games, and move the game specific terms into their own sections for those games
• Commenting again from 12.160.150.101, how do I sign? Anyway, /agree with Visual77, great idea for consolidation - can TOC-style links be used in the multiple game articles, to link to their specific section of the larger list? And the Wikibooks article is a copy of this one, check the edit dates.
• Delete if the wikibook covers the same info or Merge into the MMORPG terms and acronyms and work on the formatting of that article (which oddly I mentioned earlier today on the Talk:MMORPG terms and acronyms page, entirely unconnected to this discussion) :) --Syrthiss 20:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Uncle G--nixie 03:41, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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