Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Races and factions of Warcraft

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The result was redirect to Gameplay of World of Warcraft. Sandstein 17:59, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Races and factions of Warcraft

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does not meet notability guidelines Prisencolin (talk) 17:04, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this user is making AFD nominations in a POINTY manner due to issues with an article creation of theirs being taken to AFD and another draft being rejected by AFC (which had been previously AFD'd). I recommend a speedy keep on procedural grounds, with no opposition to someone else nominating if they feel WP:LISTN or WP:GNG aren't met. @Postdlf: As info based on your comment at another recent AFD nomination. -- ferret (talk) 17:22, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:24, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. -- ferret (talk) 17:27, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete neither the notability of lists or GNG is met. We need to stop using procedure to keep useless clutter on Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:34, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep but purge~~ LISTN can easily be shown for the major factions and races, particularly playable ones from the various games. The mass of fancruft about every little race and creature though can be purged out. -- ferret (talk) 17:57, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've completed a quick prune of general cruft that is unlikely to be sourcable. The major factions and races are all that's left now, though I wouldn't call it great by any stretch, this was just a quick prune. -- ferret (talk) 02:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clean-up and rename: so much of this is unverifiable, and questionably accurate. There's no sense of proportion, and no real world context to determine what's important or impactful. But it seems likely that at least some of the races here are notable, and probably covered better together in a singular article than as a few stubs. This is based on my best estimate of the article's WP:POTENTIAL. And if that doesn't come to fruition, I would support a merge or redirect to a suitable article that covers a lot of this type of in-universe stuff. Shooterwalker (talk) 01:44, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ Redirect. This WP:FANCRUFT fails WP:NFICTION. Perhaps some of it could be rescued into an article about Universe of Warcraft but nobody tried to create the main overview. Anyway, this stuff belongs on a fandom/wikia site. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Gameplay of World of Warcraft, with potentially some content merged. The vast majority the sourcable content is within the context of World of Warcraft's now decades long domination of the universe, such as which races have become members of which playable factions. @Piotrus: This target might be suitable for your thoughts on a Universe article. -- ferret (talk) 02:07, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Or, perhaps more suitably, merge content into Warcraft#Setting, which is the main link to this article. I do not believe this article large enough that a suitable merge of high points could not be accomplished. -- ferret (talk) 02:11, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a better redirect target, changed my vote. Unfortunately there is almost nothing worth merging :( --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:49, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Right now a mess of FANDOM-style fancruft that should be WP:TNT deleted. An article on Azeroth would probably be notable and be able to include the major races but would probably merit a full rewrite from scratch._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 07:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (or redirect to a suitable target). WP:GAMECRUFT. Looking through the ol' VG/RS search engine, I get some mentions here and there, but nothing in-depth or information beyond in-universe. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 14:19, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect and/or merge to existing Warcraft articles. Ambrosiawater (talk) 23:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.