363:. A common alternative is to transwiki specialized articles to wikis that deal with that speciality. In this case, that would be a major WoW wiki. There was a proposal on the Village Pump to help point people to those specialized wikis, but I don't know what became of it. Your blog comment is rather off the mark, I'm afraid. --
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