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Include links to first books in series entries?[edit]
Today's edit by LordNAg raises an interesting question. The edit adds a wikilink for the series Children of Time. Technically this link is wrong, since it's to the novel Children of Time and not to the series, which doesn't have an article of its own. On the other hand, having this link here is helpful to readers. But if we allow this we should also add links for The Founders Trilogy (to Foundryside) and for The Scholomance (to A Deadly Education). And I can go back and do earlier years if we decide this is the right thing to do. But Children of Time shouldn't be treated differently just because the first book happens to have the same name as the series. Thoughts? Dan Bloch (talk) 20:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And actually there's a further complication. The source says the series' name is the Children of Time Series, but it's presented as Children of Time here. Dan Bloch (talk) 20:53, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Danbloch: Added in the "series", because we respect the WSFS naming elsewhere. I guess I'm okay with linking the first book; a lot/most book series don't have articles and a link to something that represents what the series is seems helpful to readers. It makes sense that this list shouldn't be beholden to whether or not someone sat down and wrote an article on that series instead of making readers google it. --PresN 02:46, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This was my thinking when I made that edit. If there were a full Children of Time Series page then I'd have linked to that, but I'd rather have a link to something relevant than nothing at all. LordNAg (talk) 15:30, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, done where possible. --PresN 17:25, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
