My point is I’m not sure why you’re bringing in other franchises, or debating over pacemakers 
Because I see no difference between cyborgs in other sci-fi and mechagnomes in WoW , obviously, except for the base race. So if I wouldn’t call a human with those changes a cayborg, I wouldn’t call a gnome with those changes a mechagnome. That’s the analogy. And I don’t really think you missed that.
I don’t think it’s really right to use the term cyborg as it seems to be too subjective. I mean what even defines one? You’re going to get different answers depending on who we ask. Best to just stick to mechagnome.
And I’d say exactly the same about mechagnomes, yes. So no, I don’t think mechagnome is in any way clearer.
According to Wikipedia:
A cyborg a portmanteau of “[cybernetic] [organism]”, is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.
The term cyborg is not the same thing as bionic, biorobot or android; it applies to an organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on some sort of feedback. While cyborgs are commonly thought of as mammals, including humans, they might also conceivably be any kind of organism.
So by this broad definition even a person with a pacemaker is a cyborg, specifically looking at “[…] restored function […] due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on some sort of feedback.”
But if you take a more specific definition, with enhanced abilities and voluntary replacement of perfectly fine biological bodyparts for perceived or factual enhancment Mechagnomes are still Cyborgs, while Mekkatorque and other people with Prostheses would fall out of it.
I mean in my eyes, Gelbin has Mechagnome technology integrated into his body and supposedly sustaining him (clarity probably needed there imo, doubt we’ll ever get it from Blizzard though) I’d say that was arguably mechagnome
That’s actually really interesting, I never considered looking for a defined definition of it.
I guess my great grandfather was indeed a cyborg.
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No argument there.
And I wouldn’t. If I wouldn’t call Picard a cyborg, I wouldn’t call Gelbin one, even if he needed a mechanical heart, which we actually don’t know. But as we made clear, the definitions aren’t clear, so Picard might count as a cyborg, strictly speaking, and if Gelbin is the same he can count as a mechagnome, sure. I wouldn’t define it like that, though.
Specific to WoW, mechagnomes have an entirely different gnomish culture. Gelbin doesn’t become a mechagonian by getting saved by mechagonian tech, so I’m not really sure why it would matter if he is “technically” a mechagnome. He certainly is still a gnome of Gnomeregan. And he certainly has an implant.
Ok not really sure where the Mechagonian thing came from, I’ve never said it makes him a Mechagon gnome.
But regardless that’s fair, I don’t really see/understand your point of view, but I respect that it’s different. More power to you.
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