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• ...Warcraft Wiki talk:List of race icons/Archive01 Archived October 2007 - June 2010
• ...Warcraft Wiki talk:List of race icons/Archive02 Archived May 2010 - March 2017

Requests

Requests for new icons or propose changes to existing icons should be placed here. These requests are handled by the Icon team.

When making a request, please bear in mind the usefulness of the icon, in other words will it be used? Generally NYI races/creatures should not be requested as making the icon does require some sort of image to work off of. Creatures of similar nature or different skin/fur colors should also not be requested, for example we don't need a icon for polar bears, black bears, and brown bears.

Addendum: Don't request icons of content that hasn't gone live yet.

Aberrations Beasts (worm form) Critters Demons Dragonkin Elementals/Constructs Giants Humanoids Mechanical/Animated objects Undead Uncategorized creatures

Removal requests

The is out of place with Hearthstone art in addition to the previous version as the "mask", instead better to use the until/when Blizzard adds a female model to the game. We do not do this for a majority of other icons, even the draenor variant File:IconSmall Ogre2 Female.gif, ogre lord as lady File:IconSmall OgreLady.gif, one-eye variant File:IconSmall OgreEye Female.gif, and the mages File:IconSmall OgreMage Female.gifFile:IconSmall OgreMage2 Female.gif. Please leave a comment below with your reasoning why it should be kept. — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 14:58, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Icons to avoid

Mounts/Companions; should be avoided

 [Onyxian Whelpling], Onyxian Drake,  [Guardian Cub],  [Baby Blizzard Bear],  [Dark Phoenix Hatchling]

Minor differences; doesn't require a new icon

Azure drakonid, Gilnean Children, Dragonflight HD Whelps vs Legion/BfA's (Difference is too minor to notice in an icon)

No mechanical model

 [Mechanical Yeti], Jewelcrafting Boar,  [Mechanical Greench], and  [Lifelike Mechanical Toad].

No WoW model

Clockwerk goblin, Mur'gul, Mutant murloc, Nerubian queen

Model too terrible for icons

Saronite Animus

Eggs - minor

Fire hawk egg, Cinderweb Egg

Serve no purpose

Boat, Deeprun Tram, Horde Submarine, Alliance Submarine, Big Bomb, Orb of Translocation, Gnome Drag Car, Goblin Drag Car

GIF file format

Every icon should follow this consistency. The Blood Elf male and female should be converted to gif format just like the others instead of using the gif version as a redirect. — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 04:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

This was decided against in Discord. Ignore this. — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 17:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Wylderwhelps?

i noticed the wylderdrake whelp request was removed, but i'm not totally sure on the reason. would they just not be used enough? Eithris (talk) 02:50, 16 December 2023 (UTC)