UESPWiki:Deletion Review/Oblivion:Wortcraft

Oblivion:Wortcraft

This page should be merged and redirected to Oblivion:Ingredients. The page contents are slim and do not stack up to the wealth of information contained in each of the other Oblivion:Hints pages. The title is also misleading, in that it sounds like an actual skill that can be raised in Oblivion, to which it is not. --FakeSmarts (talk) 07:04, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose: This is a game mechanic and requires its own page. Oblivion:Ingredients is about the items, and Oblivion:Hints is not a substitute for technical documentation of mechanics. I'm also unsure why you're bringing this straight to deletion review without any prior discussion on the page. —⁠Legoless (talk) 08:34, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

This is not a major game mechanic, and is most useful to be aware of when viewing item details in Oblivion:Ingredients. I don't understand your response regarding Oblivion:Hints, my intention was to clarify that every other page in that category has lots of more valuable information than the current state of Oblivion:Wortcraft. Also, I was not expecting there to be opposition to the page's merge/redirect. —⁠FakeSmarts (talk) 11:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

The fact that it isn't a major gameplay mechanic is even more reason to have a dedicated page explaining to players what it is exactly. The mechanic is visible in-game under the Active Effects section of your journal (see screenshot), and for the uninitiated this may be a confusing effect to see listed there. I'd also like to point out that the info currently on this page was split off from Oblivion:Sleeping and Eating (now simply Oblivion:Sleeping), which is an article that had been around since 2006 and demonstrates a need to document the action of eating ingredients directly as a gameplay mechanic. As per the UI, "Wortcraft" (and not Eating) is the natural article title for capturing this information. Again, Oblivion:Ingredients is an item page and should be focused on the ingredient items themselves; compare Oblivion:Weapons and Oblivion:Combat. —⁠Legoless (talk) 12:37, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose: Per Fundaments of Alchemy, Wortcraft is the proper name of the mechanic. The page is a little short but I would rather assert that we should expand it, not delete/shrink it. The Rim of the Sky (talk) 18:47, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Any useful statements about eating ingredients would be most useful within a subsection of Oblivion:Ingredients, and not a separate page. The subsection would then be referenced in relevant pages such as Oblivion:Alchemy or Oblivion:Poison. —⁠FakeSmarts (talk) 11:18, 14 October 2024 (UTC)