Is it possible that my character was deleted? I login to WoW and it brings me to the suggested Realm page instead of Character Selection and when I try to find my old realm it is not on the server list. Do you know what has happened?

No, I don't believe your character was deleted if this is what you are experiencing when trying to login to the game. This normally happens whenever there is a server maintanence scheduled and the server is currently offline getting serviced.

This usually happens on Tuesdays as it is the "official" maintenance day for Blizzard. If your character was actually deleted you would be able to get to the character selection screen and it wouldn't show up. Since your server isn't showing up I believe it is currently offline and since today is Tuesday.

I have seen a lot of strange things happen after logging in to World of Warcraft during or even after a patch day or just a regular maintenance. I've had what you described above happen many times to me. I also have had it show my server and it has shown the character count next to the server name show there were no characters created on my server. Talk about a heart attack! Anyway, a good rule of thumb before stressing out that your character has been deleted is to make sure you can get to the character selection screen and if you don't see your characters there then feel free to freak out!