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The result was keep. The Bushranger One ping only 03:00, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Legacy of the Force[edit]

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Series of pulp-science fiction books. No references given, no claim to notability provided. I'm not finding independent non-trivial coverage in discriminate websites -- sure, the books show up in catalog-the-universe listings, but nothing that meets the criteria in WP:NBOOKS.a Mikeblas (talk) 14:43, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The article in AFD is the index / overview article about a series of 9 books, each of which has an article (following copied from the AFD subject article):
  1. Betrayal by Aaron Allston (Hardcover - released on May 30th, 2006)
  2. Bloodlines by Karen Traviss (Released on August 29th, 2006)
  3. Tempest by Troy Denning (Released on November 28th, 2006)
  4. Exile by Aaron Allston (Released on February 27th, 2007)
  5. Sacrifice by Karen Traviss (Hardcover - released on May 29th, 2007)
  6. Inferno by Troy Denning (Released on August 28th, 2007)
  7. Fury by Aaron Allston (Released on November 27th, 2007)
  8. Revelation by Karen Traviss (Released on February 26th, 2008)
  9. Invincible by Troy Denning (Hardcover - released on May 13, 2008)
I am uncomfortable about deleting elements of this series, i.e. just the index article now, separately. For one thing, if some books in the series are notable while others are not, then it could be useful to have the index/series article to redirect those others to. Let me acknowledge I am not really familiar with notability for books, but deleting the overview/index article alone seems hodgepodge and not part of a proper review. --doncram 22:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Consider:

--doncram 22:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep, tentatively, per my comment above, especially that the series article is in effect a list-article of notable books. It is acceptable as a list-article. And I note that the Google newspapers link on the Inferno one brings me to this documentation that Inferno was at #7 on New York Times fiction bestsellers list at one point. Offhand it seems to me that the books and the series are probably wikipedia-notable, and that if some of the individual books should not be covered in separate articles, then they should be redirected to the series article, which should be kept. --doncram 15:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 18:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - yeah, I'd be inclined to keep this index article and maybe look at deleting any of the book articles where the book itself isn't notable. Note that at least one of these "pulp-science fiction books" made it onto the New York Times Best Seller list. St★lwart111 02:53, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 12:17, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per doncram, list article of notable books. Dcfc1988 (talk) 22:50, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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