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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3940811" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>By wikipedia logic, D&D mythology isn't very notable because not a lot of sources outside TSR/WotC have written books on Pelor, Grummsh, Vecna, Mystra ect, while doubtless many scholarly works, dissertations ect. have been written on Sumerian mythology.</p><p></p><p>Then again, to wikipedia a primary source is considered unreliable and untrustworthy while secondary sources are considered all but unquestionable, so the scholarly logic of that place is a little odd.</p><p></p><p>So:</p><p>Fictional deity in a fantasy world that has been a top seller for the last thirty years with millions of books sold and is well known to many people. . .non notable and people will fight for it to be deleted.</p><p></p><p>Obscure ancient deity from a multiple-millennium-dead mythology known to very few people outside academia and subject of a handful of journal articles and maybe a book printed a few decades ago by an academic press in a small print run. . .unquestionably notable and fighting for it's deletion will get you branded as trying to "disrupt wikipedia".</p><p></p><p>I like wikipedia, I have over 2000 edits to my name there, but their notability and sourcing requirements are esoteric to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 3940811, member: 14159"] By wikipedia logic, D&D mythology isn't very notable because not a lot of sources outside TSR/WotC have written books on Pelor, Grummsh, Vecna, Mystra ect, while doubtless many scholarly works, dissertations ect. have been written on Sumerian mythology. Then again, to wikipedia a primary source is considered unreliable and untrustworthy while secondary sources are considered all but unquestionable, so the scholarly logic of that place is a little odd. So: Fictional deity in a fantasy world that has been a top seller for the last thirty years with millions of books sold and is well known to many people. . .non notable and people will fight for it to be deleted. Obscure ancient deity from a multiple-millennium-dead mythology known to very few people outside academia and subject of a handful of journal articles and maybe a book printed a few decades ago by an academic press in a small print run. . .unquestionably notable and fighting for it's deletion will get you branded as trying to "disrupt wikipedia". I like wikipedia, I have over 2000 edits to my name there, but their notability and sourcing requirements are esoteric to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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