Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Azeroth (Warcraft)

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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 was Redirect to Warcraft universe. The nom sums it up really; an unsourced article with no content other than a plot summary and gameguide. If there is actually any encyclopedic information available, merging to the parent article would be unexceptionable, though I suggest that writing such a section from scratch in a less in-universe manner would be preferable. ELIMINATORJR 00:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Azeroth (Warcraft)

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Unsourced, unnotable cruft containing plot summaries.

There are no sources whatsoever on the article.

With that, there are no third party sources to establish its notability to the real world, suggesting that readers who do not play the Warcraft series would have little to no interest in reading this article. Chances are, someone is going to argue in this AfD that this article is notable due to its connections with the Warcraft series, but notability is not inherited and should establish its notability on its own rather than relying on Warcraft's notability.

The article comprises mostly of cruft, something that has the tendency to attract original research and further its chances of being properly sourced.

Finally, with the cruft are the plot summaries, which is what Wikipedia is not and is generally not acceptable, along with the lack of sources and notability. IAmSasori (talk) 23:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Does not warrant its own article. Unsourceable gamecruft. Keeper | 76 23:29, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
  • I agree with the nominators assessment of the notability and game-guide nature of this article, and support its deletion. I (talk) 04:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Strong Delete - Look, there is already a Warcraft Universe article, which covers all the fictional story elements of the Warcraft universe. Notice how it has NO REFERENCES? Does that not show very plainly the difficulty of making an article just about Azeroth when there isn't even enough creation information yet found for the whole of the Warcraft universe? I say, delete, and then focus on building up the Warcraft Universe article, and then if that article is bursting at the seams, we can start recreating articles like this one and making it good. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and Redirect into Warcraft universe. A lot of the content of this article should really be in the Warcraft universe article, and retaining history is important for the GFDL. User:Krator (t c) 17:36, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into Warcraft universe. Nothing in the article establishes notability to warrant a separate article. Pagrashtak 17:37, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into Warcraft universe. I was going to support keeping it but Judgesurreal777's argument changed my mind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atamasama (talk • contribs) 17:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Heavily trim and merge per above and the fact that Wikipedia is not a place to describe the entire Warcraft universe in-depth. - Chardish (talk) 17:56, 27 November 2007 (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.