Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EverQuest game commands

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The result of the debate was delete. Dmcdevit·t 06:55, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EverQuest game commands

This is hardly encyclopedic. — 131.230.133.185 6 July 2005 20:12 (UTC)

• Abstain - I just wanted to note that I'm the poor moron who re-formatted this page. Don't let the formatting fool you, this page was just a raw dump of the output of the /help command in EQ. I see almost no value to this article, but discussion apparently started at Talk:EverQuest#subsites?, which you should probably read before voting (this was intended as a sort of reverse-merge of an unmanagably large article) -Harmil 6 July 2005 20:16 (UTC)
  • Delete - Consider: Would you think a list of UNIX commands would have a place in WikiPedia, especially if such a list did not explain the greater majority of them? -RandomName 7 July 2005 03:53 (UTC)
    • Comment - You mean something like this? List of DOS commands I don't see how the EQ list is different. --Nahallac Silverwinds July 7, 2005 19:49 (UTC)
    • Comment - Exactly. Thus I'll (probably) be VfDing that one as well. Although this is not always a pertinent exercise, try and imagine what you would use these lists for. If, for example, you were writing a year ten report on everquest (or DOS) what place would a list of commands have in that report? If one of those commands had an intersting or unusual history, that would (perhaps) rate an entry in your report. Both of these lists as they stand do not merit inclusion. Aaron Brenneman 8 July 2005 00:01 (UTC)
    • Comment Quick Q upfront. Would it make sense to move the discussion to the original page, so only votes appar here? secondly, in regards to the comment of evolving commands...that actually is the case. remember the /LFG command - only was introduced with the "legacy of Ykesha" expansion. /makeleader? makes more sense since GoD with Leadership points. /invite? can do that serverwide since patch June 29, 2005. These are just the first ones I documented so far.--Kajolus 8 July 2005 08:26 (UTC)
      • It would make great sense to move the discussion to the discussion page and leave just the votes here. However, in practice that is almost never done! Aaron Brenneman 8 July 2005 11:45 (UTC)
• Delete - (vote changed July 15, due to wikibook being available now). well, first of all sorry for almost simply pasting the raw output from EQ (well, at least I sorted it). I am not much of a Wiki pro, so simply posting the raw data seemed appropriate - as I always consider WIKI a teamwork. I simply wanted to start the page. That the style was simple (mildly put) I know. As Harmil points out (btw, thank you for reformatting!), yes, it started on the discussion page. I am a vivid EQ player, and I am personally missing a list of (evolving and changing - thus Wiki style pages usable) game abbreviations/acronyms/commands. If this is the wrong place, sure, delete it. Although then I don't see the reason for keeping explanations like KEI/SOW etc. on the mainpage. please also check the discussion page though (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:EverQuest_game_commands), there is at least one more person quite happy with the existence of the page per se. PS. Rome wasn't build in a day either ;) --Kajolus 6 July 2005 20:50 (UTC)
  • Kajolus: First off, welcome to Wikipedia! I know having a VfD on your contributions can be frustrating, but please don't take it as an insult. VfDs are just one of the many ways that Wikipedia constantly asks the question, "just what is it that we're doing, here". I'll take my other comments to the talk page to avoid cluttering the voting.... -Harmil 6 July 2005 21:20 (UTC)
• Comment - I'm still trying to figure out a way to keep the page. I can go either way on the criteria for "what wikipedia is not" and while I agree it leans towards that, I dunno ..the list is just such dang good info =/ --Nahallac Silverwinds July 7, 2005 03:40 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikicities. Dcarrano 00:25, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki if possible, or delete --nixie 04:28, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a game guide (or at least not yet; it's on its way). Maybe another wiki wants this, though I can't imagine why they would. -R. fiend 05:09, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete wikipedia is not a games guide, as per r.fiend. JamesBurns 08:49, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• List of DOS commands points the way, but not in the direction that Nahallac Silverwinds thinks. List of DOS commands is a poor article. But note the reference in it to a far more comprehensive Guide to Windows commands Wikibook. Similarly, to echo Aaron Brenneman's point about lists of UNIX commands, there are several Wikibooks that have guides to UNIX commands, in particular the Guide to UNIX commands Wikibook. Wikibooks is where instruction manuals, giving lists of commands and what they do, belong. There are many instruction manuals for games sitting on the Games bookshelf at Wikibooks. I've just begun one more: EverQuest, wherein you will find a chapter on EverQuest/Commands. It should have a ring of familiarity about it. Delete. Uncle G 19:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki - Tεxτurε 20:02, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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