Talk:Hard and soft magic systems

Superheroes?

If Hard Magic is defined by how consistently and rigorously the magic is applied, why are superheroes listed as hard magic? Only source is this wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.18.125.0 (talk) 00:23, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Move

This article's title should move from Hard and Soft Magic Systems to Hard and soft magic systems, since Wikipedia article titles use sentence case.

Also, there seems to be a problem of over-reliance on one source. This seems like a useful conceptual distinction; is nobody using it but Brandon Sanderson? Q·L·1968 ☿ 23:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Editorializing

Apart from the fact that a lot of the writing seems to be really basic, there are too many uses of terms like "interesting" making it seem far from neutral. Also not sure about the sources. 2409:4042:2496:3AEB:4953:EF96:4CAF:C0 (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Fan page?

This reads like a fan page for an idea of Brandon Sanderson. Page should be cut down and merged to Brandon Sanderson. Otherwise it fails to meet any standard for inclusion----Cailil ^talk 17:15, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Notability

All of this is based on one writer's personal opinions on things that don't actually exist. The fact that some people like that one author's idea does not make this worthy of a Wikipedia article. There are all sorts of unproven and uncited assertions in this article. It should be nominated for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.248.71.105 (talk) 17:26, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Avatar? Hard Magic?

There is no real explanation of "bending" in Avatar other than some spirits gave people the power to "bend elements", and they have to dance sometimes or just wave their hands other times. The rules of this mysterious magic aren't ever explained. The only connection between bending and the hard magic definition given is that they get tired when bending. I'm proposing moving it to soft magic and adding KingKiller chronicles in its place. A magic system that is literally explained in an attempt to make it feel like a science. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.233.133.4 (talk) 14:34, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Spectrum and Hybrid Magic Systems

This paragraph describes 'hard and soft' as a spectrum, but no definition of that spectrum is found in this article nor is there any citation for supporting documentation. There are two types of magic defined: 'hard' and 'soft' — no ‘spectrum’ is laid out with supporting sources. This paragraph should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.119.27.199 (talk) 21:56, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

RWBY and Magic

Semblances from RWBY may seem like magic, but magic in RWBY is a completely different concept that seems to be limitless. The magic in RWBY is not governed by rules except for the fact that humans and faunus can't mess with life and death. However, the brother gods in the show use magic to return people to life, make someone unable to die, and the god of darkness pretty much wiped out almost every person in the world except for one most likely with magic since it was apparently a gift from the gods. So is RWBY an example of both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.120.14 (talk) 19:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Lord of the Rings combining multiple magic systems

In his most recent lecture series, Sanderson actually explained how Lord of the Rings, unlike what this article is claiming, is one of the archetypal forms of the hybrid magic systems. It uses both extreme soft magic in Gandalf and relatively hard magic in the One Ring. The latter being explained in giving at least two powers to normal people: it gives you a longer life and it makes you invisible, and two detriments: Sauron sees you and you become corrupted over time. KarstenO (talk) 22:35, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletionist?

4 votes to merge and 7 to keep. And the result is to merge. With no evidence for the merges and deletions, and all the references in keep. They don't even pretend the discussion is relevant anymore.Carewolf (talk) 07:45, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah, the same person that came to that conclusion also decided 10 keeps and 1 delete meant the following was a delete consensus, but was then later forced to undo the whole dumb thing.. Lovely https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eastern_Rail_Services&diff=prev&oldid=963373352 Carewolf (talk) 07:56, 20 June 2020 (UTC)