Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woad Warrior

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 delete. --Coredesat 03:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woad Warrior

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Confusing hybrid of fantasy/fiction and bits of military history from a variety of cultures. Name inappropriate for historical content, historical content would be better merged into various articles about warfare in those cultures. Also, a google search doesn't turn up usages of the sort indicated in article. While article has some actual material on warriors in European cultures, I think it's Original Research to lump these together under this "woad warrior" neologism. ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete From the article, 'What is certain is that none of the historical warriors were called "Woads" or "Woad Warriors."' So it's not even a neologism. Apparently an attempt to provide some context for various video game characters. JChap2007 05:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• comment - You know, I'm not sure the name has even been used in gaming or fantasy fiction... I think it may be limited to that King Arthur movie, a bumper sticker, and a comment or two in reviews of Braveheart (more on this on the talk page of article). ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I think it might be the Ages of Empire series or some other similar RTS game that it comes from. MLA 12:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Gives historical evidence but needs a clean up and clarifaction. Kyriakos 06:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete an article that seems to have no real subject, jumps about all over the place and the informative sections are already covered elsewhere in Wikipedia. Nuttah68 09:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. Yes, Woad Warrior's are mentioned in the movie King Arthur. In the movie, the Woads are the native people living north fo Hadrian's Wall that paint themselves blue before they go to battle. I think that in the movie the Woads represent the Picts who were the native people north of Hadrian's wall. Kyriakos 09:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. If this article is about the role-playing/video game characters, it lacks any content or sources related to that context. If it's about tribal warriors, it uses a name that isn't accurate for its content and content that ought to be at Celt or one of its related pages. -FisherQueen (Talk) 20:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The article is uninformative, the title is misleading, and all of the other reasons given here. If the article is intended to discuss the video game characters (mentioned above), then it needs to clearly do so and not imply any sort of historicity. If it is intended to discuss historical (or even mythological) figures, it needs to supply better sources (sources which i suspect do not exist). Whateley23 00:42, 29 January 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.