Talk:The Warcraft Encyclopedia

Just so i can understand this is for articles that didn't survive right.--Ashbear160 (talk) 22:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The Encyclopedia can currently be found, in its entirety, on the European site, but not the US site. However, this is only because the old website still exists on the EU webspace; it's really only a matter of time before it vanishes, and since it's sourced in several articles I feel it should be mirrored here. Besides, it's considerably easier to copy a source when it's still available than to wait for it to get removed and then have to track it down through web archives and hope it still exists. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:53, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I tried that once... they said i shouldn't do it for legal reasons(tried to make the naga article).--Ashbear160 (talk) 22:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Canon?
Is the information available in this encyclopedia canon? Same thing goes with all the other online sources, are they considered canon? Sorry if this question was already asked somewhere else. --D oo meЯ  T C  10:15, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 17:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks. --[[File:CogHammer.gif]]D oo meЯ  T [[Image:Battlegroup_RoundIcon.png|16px]]C  17:31, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * "While there might be some updates to it, its disappearance doesn't mean it's no longer canonical." Sean Copeland on Twitter --Aquamonkeyeg (talk) 15:17, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Copy paste
Before doing anything I want to ask if it is allowed to copy - paste info from the encyclopaedia´s articles into normal articles. i.e info from The Warcraft Encyclopedia/Sisterhood of Elune to Sisterhood of Elune. I noticed encyclopaedia´s info in heroes articles but not in faction pages.--Mordecay (talk) 19:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Simply copy/pasting information from a source directly into an article is never a good idea. Summarize, and paraphrase, don't copy. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 19:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I see, funny that few heroes articles are made by copy-paste :D So maybe ill look at those faction articles. As i am thinking... what about adding i.e. history section and only links to encyclopaedia page? --Mordecay (talk) 19:31, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The Encyclopedia is meant to be used as a source for articles, not in place of the articles themselves. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 19:33, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Okay to add self-referential links?
The original Warcraft Encyclopedia had links to other articles in it. So like the Alleria article would have "Vereesa" be a link to the Vereesa article or "High elf" would link to the High Elf article of the WE. I was wondering if it was okay to add those links according to how the WE had them. Just to be clear, I don't mean adding links to the Wowpedia articles, but to the copies of the actual WE articles listed here. --Aquamonkeyeg (talk) 15:24, 13 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Going through the pages, I noticed some already do this. I'll fill in the ones missing. --Aquamonkeyeg (talk) 15:42, 13 April 2014 (UTC)