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The text is web available. You can get to it from my first comment above. As for the others being press releases--meh. Edge and Gamasutra are reliable sources. TUAW is as well (As a subsidiary of AOL/Weblogs inc). Like I said above, this will never expand beyond a stub, but it doesn't need to.
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only establish the existence of the site, and are trivial as they only provide brief summary of the nature of the site's content. What this article fails to provide is detail on the website's achievements, impact or historical significance, if it has any.
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Non-notable specialty software and/or website. Its three external sources appear to be blogs, hence not reliable sources. Compare also the previous AfD, which was closed as "delete", at
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in english that constitutes some coverage (I'm excluding the other three that pick up the search term). Scholar hits are a no-go because google thinks I mean "wow head".
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The only (possibly) reliable source currently cited is no. 1, "Hacking World of Warcraft." The online sources are press releases and such. That's not coverage by
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rather strongly, and looks to be a recreation of a previously deleted article. (If there was some improvement since the last time, it's not enough)
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reliable sources, and probably not substantial coverage either. What does the book "Hacking World of Warcraft" actually say about the software?
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per multiple sources. As Protonk said, this isn't necessarily a massively important site, but it warrants at least a stub.
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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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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per sourcing and rework carried out by Protonk in order to meet
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Knowledge:Articles for deletion
deletion review
Jerry
delusional
kangaroo
03:00, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Wowhead
Articles for deletion/Wowhead
Articles for deletion/Wowhead (2nd nomination)
Wowhead
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
delete
View log
Knowledge:Articles for deletion/Wowhead
 Sandstein 
20:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
WP:WEB
Bfigura
23:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
list of Game-related deletion discussions
• Gene93k
talk

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