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Too much speculation and personal opinion
First things first.
@Pyrus - I am a he, not a she.
Second, I feel it's important to at least have a base for what gods are defined. The following was taken out of Wikipedia's "Deity" page (as that was supposedly the page about gods in polytheistic rather than monotheistic contexts), but since it's Wikipedia anyone's welcome to supply an amendment based on a different source.
Based on that, I don't think Corple cuts it. He's definitely not supernatural or immortal, and calling his skill preternatural might be stretching it. Besides which, the quote Pyrus supplied do have the keyword considered in it, so...
On the other hand, Lugh's looking a whole lot more credible to me. It doesn't get much better for religious support than a clergyman going and saying so. And, at least to the rest of the inhabitants of Erinn, he's definitely accomplished the aspects of being preternatural, immortal, holy, and respected. (Though I would like to see the thread where Lugh was disproven as a Milletian. I thought that had been clearly established in the game?)
@Mystickskye - The Shakespeare trivia doesn't have to pertain to only Shakespeare it can apply to any escapee of Avon (though I admit that point is speculation). More importantly, there's not exactly place to list this under a subheading of "storyline" - the walkthroughs, I'm pretty sure are supposed to be kept as spoiler-free as possible, and the mabinogi storyline recap page is supposed to tell a story, not critically analyze it. As well, just because it's related to Shakespeare doesn't automatically guarantee it a place in his page - there, it's just as useless as most of the trivia you've removed from this page. You have to remember that it the trivia doesn't tell us anything about Shakespeare himself, which is the point of his page. On the other hand, one interpretation tells us two things about the gods: one, it's the gods' jobs to hunt down escapees, and two, some of them are either purposely ignoring this or sleeping in. The other interpretation says that "hey, we accidentally told you before it's the gods' jobs to hunt down escapees, but we were, uh, kinda, wrong. Just thought you should know!" which is still pretty important to note here so that no one gets confused.
There is the possibility that the other gods are working with Morrighan against Shakespeare, but until the game demonstrates this, any attempt to say so is just speculation and doesn't deserve to be heeded.
As for the second paragraph...I think you're not entirely following my thread of thought. Or I'm not following yours. Either way, I'm arguing that a list of powers that the various gods have definitely demonstrated, each placed (and I think this is the point you missed) beside the god in question who demonstrated it for every god who demonstrated it, is a way to represent, compare, or contrast the diverse abilities of the deities.
And also, though this is a bit more of a request, but if there is anyone in the IRC who has something to say, can you actually get them to make an account and comment on here or just quote what they said as opposed to asking us to move to the IRC? Two reasons for this: first, generally wiki stuff should be done on the wiki and the IRC stuff on the IRC. I mean, if there's, say, a vote for re-designing the layout of the IRC channel or something (and mind you, that was off the top of my head), even if a lot of the wiki members are part of the IRC community too, doesn't mean they should try to move the voting/discussion of the subject to the wiki, right? And second, some people just perform better on different platforms - take me for example, absolutely horrible at face-to-face conversation, but here I can think stuff out before type it out, or think it over again and re-type it. So I would definitely prefer a wiki discussion over an IRC one. There might be some people to whom the reverse applies in the IRC, of course, so that's why I also asked you to quote what they said if you can.
@Kadalyn - Well, not to be nitpickyish, but people are insulted by different things. In this case it's not hard to imagine that someone who worked honestly to get his facts right yet is told that they are nothing more than speculation would have their pride injured. Though, I would agree with you that generally Mystickskye's comments won't be an insult.
As for the multiple Glas and "pets" thing, neither exactly have a direct co-relation to whether they can be gods or not. Disqualifying Glas immediately because of a base of "there's a lot of Glas Ghaibhleanns" is akin to disqualifying the Greek gods as deities because of a base of "there's a lot of Greeks" (though admittedly the Greek gods all had different areas of influence).
As for Cromm, I think the adjective "pet" itself may be a hyperbole. Even if it's not, it's not hard to imagine "pet" and "god" applied to the same thing, since just because an animal's cuddly, cute and subservient to one person doesn't mean it can't bully a different group and force them to worship it. And lastly, though I don't know for sure, the context you pulled that quote out from seem to indicate the speaker has a good amount of hate for Cromm Cruaich and Macha, and I don't quite think that's the best thing to rely a conclusion on.
@Generic air - Can we agree to not edit the article concerning the above subjects until there's been no response of at least 48 hours? Since, no offence Pyro, but I did think your edit was kinda hasty too.
...Anything else I should address...?
I never said it did automatically qualify him. What I said was that there's no more reason to put it on one over the other. We don't know the specifics of it and to pretend that we do is misleading. To draw further meaning from it is speculation.
Re: Lugh, speculation. Show that he is actually a God in the context of Mabinogi or drop the claim. Fact is that a very few npcs have called him a God. Fact also is that the vast majority haven't. These are both facts. "Lugh is a God" is a derived conclusion, not a fact.
I didn't ask you to move to IRC. I said you were welcome there to hear the words of others. Otherwise you have me to go through. I could quote some of the things said but I don't think people would appreciate that if some of my comments are considered rude. I suggested it later on due to the huge amount of text going on with the relative little progress which just bloats this page. Being on the IRC doesn't exclude thinking before you type it out and there is no shame or penalty for rewording something later on in IRC. Moving a vote to the IRC would hold little value due to the fact that there is nothing the wiki offers over the IRC for the given purpose (except maybe having a public reference of something and in fact we did move the transcripts of the Nexon Q&A sessions to the wiki for the exact purpose).