Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zin-carla

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. Wizardman 17:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zin-carla

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This article consists almost entirely of plot summary without real-world context or analysis, which breaks WP:NOT#PLOT, and has no secondary sources to indicate notability per WP:FICT. Google returns only non-reliable fansites and the like and unrelated hits which indicates this topic has never recieved substantial coverage from acceptable secondary sources. As such, it is unlikely any amount of rewriting or improvement can bring the article up to policy by providing real-world significance or establishing notability. Once unencyclopedic, in-universe material is removed (per WP:FICT#Non-notable_topics), there would no content to merge into another article. Doctorfluffy (talk) 21:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - all information is in-universe and no out of universe coverage or significance -- Whpq (talk) 17:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - Not encyclopedic and insignificant; one of thousands of spells from this game system -- (Condorman (talk) 07:09, 30 January 2008 (UTC))
• Merge and Redirect to Drow. BOZ (talk) 18:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Drow. Drow page could be improved with a short section on Drow magic, including a mention of Zin-carla. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a merge though, because I can't see more than three or four words surviving from this article. BreathingMeat (talk) 19:09, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
• Question please identify how this is a plot summary? having no knowledge i cannot vote on this until i understand the reasoning behind the nomination. what novel does this character come from? if not from a novel again i ask someone please clearify for me how is all of D&D suposed to hold within the realm WP:Fict when it is not entirely a story? otherwise if this is some minor character/etc in a novel the it should be merged to the respective list of characters/creatures/etc for that setting. shadzar|Talk|contribs 00:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

  Please read WP:FICT more carefully. It defines works of fiction as more than just "novels". You should read the subject of this AFD again as well. As the article explains, Zin-carla is not character, but is actually a spell. You will also see that the first paragraph is background information to the fictional realm and the second paragraph details fictional events in which this fictional spell was used by fictional characters in the fiction novel Exile. Clearly, this content falls under the heading of plot summary. Lastly, merging is a poor option, which has already been explained in my nomination. I am not going to reiterate my rationale here. Doctorfluffy (talk) 01:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Merge and Redirect to Drow. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related-related deletion discussions. —Gavin Collins (talk) 13:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete no independent coverage; fails WP:N, WP:FICT, WP:RPG/N. Percy Snoodle (talk) 13:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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