Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Runecrafting

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 of the debate was Keep. Tyrenius 00:33, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runecrafting

I don't think that individual skills in online games need their own articles. Plus, the RuneScape Wiki already has an article about this subject. --Ixfd64 21:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Note: I've extended this AfD to Cooking (RuneScape) (RuneScape Wiki page), Crafting (RuneScape) (RuneScape Wiki page), Magic (RuneScape) (RuneScape Wiki page), and Prayer (RuneScape) (RuneScape Wiki page). --Ixfd64 22:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or merge to main "RuneScape" article, along with the nice animation. OMEN 22:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• • DITTO for all. OMEN 22:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Merge whatever's not extremely crufty and sourced into RuneScape then nuke with fire. —THIS IS MESSEDOCKER (TALK) 23:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, considering that the RS articles go into even smaller things and that this was removed from the main article in the first place because it was getting too long. Snake712 00:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep', Article already too long, merging back would just be a calamity. J.J.Sagnella 06:00, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep', per J.J.Sagnella. Englishrose 07:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or merge per nom. Percy Snoodle 15:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep What Sagnella said, plus the Skills page is messed up aleady. --Cool Spy0 22:49, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete There's also a discussion regarding the Construction skill. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:38, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I'd hope that the closing administrator would also look at earlier discussions Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mining (RuneScape) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fishing (RuneScape) for further clarity. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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  This image shows the apparent process:
  Information is poor and scattered. It is then split, and worked on. It is fixed. And finally, it is reintroduced.
  Currently, this process is on the third step. If these articles are deleted/merged, this step will be broken, and the end result will not be reached, but instead Wikipedia will be left with the problem that begat the articles AFDed here. Hyenaste ^(tell) 02:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
  Keep Ooh, my first foray into Wikipedian philosophy. Eventualism has been working in RS articles. When I first arrived, the oldest RuneScape articles were large and shoddily thrown together. Editors recently 'exploded' the big articles into smaller ones. This is partly why there are so many Rs articles. These smaller articles are dealt with, and eventually possibly can be reintroduced into their parent article. Examine RuneScape runes, for example. It first existed as a hunk of information on the overlarge RuneScape items page. RuneScape runes was created in order to: a) shrink the RuneScape items page, which worked and led to that page's deletion, and b) put the information into a smaller, easier to work with page. Eventually, editors pruned the article to shorten it, and it was merged into Magic (RuneScape).
  What I'm saying is that these articles are here in order to compile information about the skill, then slowly we can extract the information and reintroduce it into the RuneScape skills page, or any other page that will be available at that time. Eventually, yes, these articles may be small enough to be merged back into the skills article, but right now, they are too large, too specific, and too detailed to be simply tossed back onto the RuneScape skills page. If all the information from all these pages is put back now, the page will become what it started with, a large compilation of rubbish. Hyenaste ^(tell) 02:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Merge into RuneScape skills; it is not necessary to have individual articles for each skill. CaptainVindaloo ^{t c e} 17:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep or Merge - Per all the Keep reasons above. The RuneScape article is too large. We move parts of it out to other articles, which then all get nominated for deletion. So we put it all back in the RuneScape article. Then that article is too large. So then are we going to move it all back out to smaller articles again? Where does the cycle stop? RuneScape is a very large game and any article that gives it its due is going to be large or set up as a large series of articles. Xela Yrag 17:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all I cannot fathom why people think this belongs here when there exists a Wikia wiki specifically for it! KWH 04:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep- If you haven't noticed... most RPG articles have info on skills, characters, etc. Why should RuneScape be different? Sure, there aren't as many players as Everquest, but does that mean all articles relating to it should be deleted? I think not! If anything, all the other RuneScape articles should be brought back (see the Zezima talk page). User:Merlin Storm04:58, 7 July 2006 05:00, 7 July 2006 (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.