User:Miremare/Wow

World of Warcruft

Here are all the World of Warcraft articles I could find, with my opinion on what their fates should be and why. The vast majority of these articles are written in an in-universe style, contain no real-world context, and are sourced (though many aren't sourced at all) from either official Blizzard Entertainment sites or other wikis (mostly wowwiki.com), or in a few cases even other Wikipedia articles. Comments welcome.

Firstly those that were listed at the recent 26-article AfD:

KEEP

• Corrupted Blood - The most notable of the bunch, with genuine interest to those who haven't played the game. Various reliable sources - BBC, AAAS, C&VG

UNSURE

• Draenei - No references, but possibly reliable external links? in-universe

DELETE/TRANSWIKI

• Reputation in World of Warcraft - No reliable independent sources - all official or wowwiki
• List of Warcraft races - No references, concerns of OR, in-universe
• Azeroth (world) - No references, in-universe
• Alliance (Warcraft) - No references, in-universe
• Horde (Warcraft) - No references, in-universe
• Human (Warcraft) - No references, in-universe
• Night Elf - One ref from a fan-site, ext links official or wowwiki, in-universe
• Dwarves (Warcraft) - One inline ref from fansite, ext links official or wiki, in-universe
• Gnome (Warcraft) - No references, ext links official or wiki, in-universe
• Orc (Warcraft) - No references, ext links official or wiki, in-universe
• Tauren - No references, ext links official or wiki, in-universe
• Undead (Warcraft) - No references, in-universe
• The Scourge (Warcraft) - Refs official or other Wikipedia articles! Ext off or wiki. In-universe
• The Forsaken (Warcraft) - No refs. Ext links official or wiki, in-universe
• Troll (Warcraft) - Refs fansite, ext links off, wiki, battle.net. In-universe
• Blood Elf - No reliable references, ext links official, in-universe
• List of major cities in World of Warcraft - 2 references, both official. In-universe
• List of Warcraft locations - 1 reference - World of Warcraft Atlas (official)
• Dark Portal - No references, ext link wiki
• Eastern Kingdoms - Redirect to List of Warcraft locations
• List of Warcraft characters - Oh God, no! I mean, no references. No apparent notability. In-universe

PROBABLY CONTROVERSIAL DELETES

• Classes in World of Warcraft - 20 references, but all either official or wowiki
• Instance (World of Warcraft) - Notable in the context of WoW? No references, ext links official or wiki
• Player versus player in World of Warcraft - Notable in the context of WoW? Two sources from ign.com, the rest official

And now we come to those that weren't listed at the 26 article AfD, mostly articles on individual characters from WoW:

KEEP

• Warcraft universe - No references, but prob notable enough - games, books, boardgames etc.

UNSURE

• Neltharion - References from several novels?
• Nozdormu - References from several novels?

DELETE/TRANSWIKI

• Titans (Warcraft) - No refs, ext link wiki. In-universe
• Kirin Tor - No refs, ext link wiki. In-universe
• Anub'arak - No refs. In-universe
• Archimonde - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Azshara - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Dreadlord - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Cairne Bloodhoof - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Cenarius - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Killrogg Deadeye - No refs. In-universe
• Orgrim Doomhammer - No refs. In-universe
• Durotan - No refs. In-universe
• Elune - No refs. In-universe
• Shandris Feathermoon - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Gul'dan - No refs. In-universe
• Garona Halforcen - No refs. In-universe
• Grom Hellscream - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Kel'Thuzad - No refs. ext link official and wiki. In-universe
• Khadgar - No refs. In-universe
• Kil'jaeden - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Korialstrasz - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Anduin Lothar - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Magtheridon - No refs. In-universe
• Malygos - Refs are blizzplanet.com, a WP article, Warcraft books. In-universe
• Mannoroth - No refs. In-universe
• Medivh - No refs. In-universe
• Arthas Menethil - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• King Terenas Menethil II - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Nefarian - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Ner'zhul - No refs. In-universe
• Captain Placeholder - No refs. 1 ext link not reliable, 1 official
• Grand Admiral Daelin Proudmoore - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Jaina Proudmoore - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Rexxar - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Rhonin - Ref is wowinsider.com, ext link wiki. In-universe
• Sargeras - No refs. ext links official and wiki. In-universe
• Sen'jin - No refs. ext link broken. In-universe
• Maiev Shadowsong - No refs. ext link official. In-universe
• Fandral Staghelm - No refs. In-universe
• Illidan Stormrage - No refs. In-universe
• Malfurion Stormrage - No refs. ext link official. In-universe
• Kael'thas Sunstrider - Refs blizzplanet.com, wowhead.com and official.
• Thrall (Warcraft) - Reference youtube. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Mekgineer Thermaplugg - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Tichondrius - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Uther the Lightbringer - No refs. In-universe
• Lady Vashj - No refs. ext links official, wiki. In-universe
• Vol'jin - No refs. In-universe
• Velen (World of Warcraft) - No refs. In-universe
• Sylvanas Windrunner - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Tyrande Whisperwind - No refs. ext links official, wiki. In-universe
• Ysera - References - 2 Warcraft novels. ext link wiki. In-universe
• Zul'jin - No refs. ext link wiki. In-universe
• List of Warcraft organizations - No refs. In-universe
• List of Warcraft items - No refs. In-universe

SeizureDog's opinion

Delete everything but the following:

• Azeroth (Warcraft) - More notable than Spira (Final Fantasy), which at least used to be a GA. On the same level as other video game worlds such as Hyrule and Mushroom Kingdom. Possibly just merge into List of Warcraft locations, but keep for a while.
• Corrupted Blood - Agreed, keep.
• List of Warcraft characters - Keep but seriously clean up to only include major characters (and possibly only characters that appeared before WoW). Characters of StarCraft is a GA, so there's no reason that Warcraft can't do it too.
• List of Warcraft locations - Keep and merge other articles into it.
• List of Warcraft races - Rework as Playable races in the Warcraft series and make it focus on the Humans, Orcs, Undead, and Night Elfs with more weight given towards how they're used in the main (non-WoW) series.
• Warcraft universe - Keep but move to Warcraft (series)

--SeizureDog 00:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)