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Welcome to the mergers department of the Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject. This is where we work together to merge the less-notable and shorter articles within the project's scope into more comprehensive articles. Wikipedia:Merging provides some basic information which may be useful.
Merge targets[edit]
By adding |merge=yes to the {{D&D}} template on a talk page, you add it to Category:Dungeons & Dragons merge targets. Articles in that category should be useful as locations to merge large numbers of articles... if only one or two pages could be merged, it usually shouldn't be in the category. When trying to figure out where to merge an article to, you can use the category to help.
Progress[edit]
This list is updated occasionally based on the number of pages in Category:All Dungeons & Dragons articles. Generally, this number should be going down as articles are merged.
- January 21, 2009 (12:06): 1785.
- January 24, 2009 (12:13): 1725. (~60 articles merged in ~3 days)
- January 27, 2009 (12:12): 1644. (~80 articles merged in ~3 days)[1]
- February 3, 2009 (12:07): 1637. (~7 articles merged in ~6 days)
- February 12, 2009 (12:06): 1629. (~11 articles merged in ~9 day)
Controversial mergers[edit]
If there is a merge which you think may be controversial, please put it here for further discussion.
Requested mergers[edit]
If you think that an article should be merged, but don't know how to merge it, don't have the time to merge it, or don't know where it should be merged too, you can list it here and someone should take a look fairly quickly. Please put both the article to be merged and the target article if possible.
- The entries of Category:Greyhawk locations look like they could be combined into a Universe of Greyhawk or List of Greyhawk locations article. Pagrashtak 19:13, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- We need to have a discussion about the level of detail we want for deities. Taking List of Greyhawk deities as an example, each deity there has a very short description. The number of deities that could support their own article are likely few and far between. On the other hand, if we try to merge all deities in there without losing content, the page will be unwieldy. Creating sublists is probably treading thin on notability. I think we'll have to condense and merge. Pagrashtak 20:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- WP:NCLL says that if a list becomes too long it can be split into multiple lists alphabetically (e.g. an A-M list and an N-Z list), so list length isn't really a major issue. I'd take a discussion to WT:DND, because just how we want to organize D&D lists should probably be discussed... I can think of at least three ways (by setting, by power level, or just all together), and we should probably figure that out before we start. -Drilnoth (talk) 14:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- What about modules with very short articles? For example, take the DA1–DA4 series: Adventures in Blackmoor, Temple of the Frog, City of the Gods, and The Duchy of Ten. These articles are all very short—do we want to consider merging them into a Dungeons & Dragons DA modules article? I'm not too crazy about that title, if you have something better please suggest it. Another idea would be to merge into List of Dungeons & Dragons modules, but I think that might be overkill. Pagrashtak 19:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- "DA module series" maybe? I agree that the really short module descriptions which have not been expanded in forever could stand to be merged somewhere, and by series seems as good of an idea as any (see Against the Giants, for example). If someone can expand them in the future, they can always be restored later. BOZ (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- DA module series sounds good, although note that only one or two images should be kept for such "adventure compilation" articles per WP:NFCC. -Drilnoth (talk) 21:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Done, let me know what you think. Pagrashtak 16:13, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Looks great! -Drilnoth (talk) 16:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, I went ahead and merged CA module series as well, and might get around to doing some more of the small ones later. Pagrashtak 17:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- You could probably make a decent Desert of Desolation by merging Pharaoh (module), Oasis of the White Palm, and Lost Tomb of Martek. That's definitely an example of a whole that would be better than the sum of its parts, a la Against the Giants and Scourge of the Slave Lords. BOZ (talk) 22:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, I went ahead and merged CA module series as well, and might get around to doing some more of the small ones later. Pagrashtak 17:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Looks great! -Drilnoth (talk) 16:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Done, let me know what you think. Pagrashtak 16:13, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- DA module series sounds good, although note that only one or two images should be kept for such "adventure compilation" articles per WP:NFCC. -Drilnoth (talk) 21:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- "DA module series" maybe? I agree that the really short module descriptions which have not been expanded in forever could stand to be merged somewhere, and by series seems as good of an idea as any (see Against the Giants, for example). If someone can expand them in the future, they can always be restored later. BOZ (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- I came across Guide to Hell and was planning to merge it with a suitable parent article. I don't think it's controversial and will do it myself. Problem is I'm not quite sure where to merge it to, since I'm not so familiar with the general topic. Any help would be appreciated. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 11:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)