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plot summary or to establish notability satisfactorily. In other words, there is inherently no content that could be included in this fictional timeline because the basis for content inclusion on Knowledge is whether or not such content appears verifiable, reliable, independent sources. It simply doesn't appear such sources exist, so the article should be deleted.
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are policies, not guidelines. I think the real point here (and why this article has been AFDed 3 times) is that under no circumstances will any amount of improvement bring the article up to policy, mainly because reliable secondary sources do not appear to exist to provide real-world analysis for the
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of the article. so the offending content should not remain on WP. This in itself doesn't mean the article shouldn't remain on WP. Now I made it a comment instead of voting keep because I haven't checked things out yet, I strongly suspect it should be deleted, just not using these arguments.
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Since the game is a notable game in the real world, the summary of the overall sequence of events in a reasonably concise manner like here is notable as a part of the subject--an acceptable subarticle, written separately because of the size of the main article.
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Did you read the nomination? It details the policies that are broken. The fact that they have been broken for so long in this case only goes to reinforce that the article shouldn't remain on Knowledge.
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on this article, none of which attempted to improve the issues other than adding an in-universe template. It is apparently obvious that no effort will be done to fix the problems this article has.
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as the article concenrs a recognizble subject, contains multiple references, is well-organized, and survived two AfDs already. Plus, as others have argued,
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of time yet absolutely nothing has been done to address any of the concerns raised. There is no reason to allow this to remain on Knowledge any longer.
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per nom's excellent analysis. Numerous policies are still broken, despite claims of the potential for improvement in previous AFDs. There has been
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In universe (and unreferenced) content with no significant coverage from real world sources. Best if transwikied to an an EQ wiki.
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split. Ideally, any worthwhile content should be merged there. I don't see any worthwhile content, so again, delete. -
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over two months ago. Such sources do not even seem acceptable in the first place, ranging from game manuals to forums.
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on this article were very poorly done, with some of them not working, and still were not working even since the
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
501:- I don't see how this topic has any real-world notability. Nominator makes many other good points as well. - 118: 60:) would be enough to be fatal— coupled with the lack of attempts at salvaging it deletion is unavoidable. 581: 407: 379: 332: 261: 475: 110: 78: 506: 312:...oh wait, no it isn't. Please argue the article's potential, not the article's current contents. - 273:
Looks like it's had its chance. The important parts are already covered in other articles, such as
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Suggest merging whatever possible to the main article; this is pushing the boundaries of
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Well, I didn't really say anything that wasn't already essentially in the nomimation.
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As a timeline, this article contains in-universe storylines, something which
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no prose to merge and the article is little but a table of bullet points. —
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Knowledge:Articles for deletion
deletion review
unverifiability
reliable, secondary sources
original research
Norrath
Coren
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EverQuest timeline
Articles for deletion/EverQuest timeline
Articles for deletion/EverQuest timeline (2nd nomination)
Articles for deletion/EverQuest timeline (3rd nomination)
EverQuest timeline
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
View log
previous nomination
nearly no effort
plot summaries
unnotable
cruft
poor sources
Knowledge is not

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