Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Addiction to World of Warcraft

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merge to World of Warcraft#Game addiction. MBisanz ^talk 02:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Addiction to World of Warcraft

Doubtful on notability specific to this game, possibly notable to the entire MMO genre of games. Reads like an OR essay. rootology (C)(T) 14:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: the page could be easily merged in Video game addiction. WoW may be the best known video game these days, but the argument can be covered in the aforementioned article.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Piccolo Modificatore Laborioso (talk • contribs)

If you think this can easily be merged, then why are you voting to delete? - Mgm|^(talk) 23:33, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: The page could also merge easily into the World of Warcraft page itself, doesn' that make sense? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.241.147 (talk) 15:39, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, but expand the already-in-place addiction section on the WoW article. I see some media coverage: 'World of Warcraft' Causing Kids to Flunk School? and FFC blames World of Warcraft for college dropouts. The only article we use on the addiction of WoW is this, obviously the section could easily be expanded. Rtyq2 (talk) 16:32, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Not only is the title a possible search term, it contains referenced material that could be merged. Including the material in context would take care of any notability issues the nominator has. - Mgm|^(talk) 23:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. —MuZemike (talk) 01:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect or highly selective merge to World of Warcraft#Game addiction. Maybe split it eventually, as the section expands with coverage in reliable secondary sources. But not yet. 64.231.195.170 (talk) 05:19, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/smerge to World of Warcraft#Game addiction. WoW is the most recent 'big' MMO (remember that Everquest was "Evercrack" well before WoW came out) to be studied, but this article reads like an essay on the subject. Numerous good sources are left out, as is any suggestion that it isn't an addiction (which also has some sourcing). Protonk (talk) 21:31, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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