Halfling (Dungeons & Dragons) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 19 March 2020 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Halfling. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
This article was nominated for deletion on 14 December 2015. The result of the discussion was keep. |
"The word 'Halfling' was also from a line in a Shakespeare play, referring to a midget, a boy sized man. " Mmm, I doubt this enough to move it here till someone with a Concordance to Shakespeare can verify or deny. I suspected it because if it were really in Shakespeare, it would be in the Shorter O.E.D. eh. (The line was contributed anonymously by IC 66.42.112.41. Wetman 06:30, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
we could definately use a picture in this article -- Nerd42 17:26, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm puzzled why the article says it's another word for hobbit, as I don't remember the term halfling appearing anywhere in either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. FeralDruid 09:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
There's absolutely no connection between Hanner Dyn the Half-Man and halflings that I can see. And where does "halflings were thought to be 4'9"-5'0" come from? Thought by whom, when? Daibhid C ( talk) 02:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
There aren't any connections, and as they were invented by Tolkien (unless we count a word found in the Denham Tracts then it must mean fictional characters, however Halflings/Hobbits are a lot shorter than that, and that would be the size of a Dwarf. This article is pretty ridiculous to be fair. It needs a lot of work and that section removed! Sigurd Dragon Slayer ( talk) 02:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
About "Hobbit" trademark and "Dungeons & Dragons began using the name halfling as an alternative to hobbit for legal reasons", I've seen the "citation needed" on this page and finaly found the original US Registration certificate from the United States Patent and Trademark Office I guess that's a fair citation, even if there is no sign of Dungeon & Dragons. Dtapesar ( talk) 21:05, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Looks to me like this article's talkpage hasn't been touched in awhile, let alone the article itself, so I don't know how many eyes are on it at this point, but I think there's merit in either deleting this or merging its content with the Hobbit article... Aside from its apparent, yet-to-be-sourced etymological origins outside of Tolkien's work, this just looks like a list of crufty uses of the term/race in various media, and I'd see more encyclopedic merit as it just being referred to in the Hobbit article for what it is-- just an alternate name for hobbits, both in Tolkien's work and other works (which I see it already does, so that makes this article a little redundant, doesn't it?) BlusterBlaster kaboom! 18:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
I've removed the tag. The discussion seems to be going nowhere. Yes, more refs would be good; but RS for fantasy fiction are hard to find. -- Elphion ( talk) 19:03, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I brought this article recently to the AfD, and there was strong support for disambiguating this article. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halfling. I would convert it by myself and move some text elsewhere, but I am not sure what to do with the popular culture section, as I was pretty much alone in wanting to get rid of it. WP:PRESERVE. The popular culture section could be saved from disambiguation by moving it into a separate list, but splitting this article even more is most likely a very bad idea. Disambiguation would be helpful as there is no clear primary topic here, as was argued at the AfD discussion page. WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. Ceosad ( talk) 01:25, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
On the AfD page I suggested making this page a formal disambiguation page: "Halfling can refer to..." I think that's better than saying it's another word for hobbit. In that case "Halfling" and "Hobbit" should be merged and then there would still need to be two disambiguation pages, one for each word. Borock ( talk) 18:01, 29 December 2015 (UTC)