This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or, if the page was deleted, in the Senate Hall rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Delete both. 
Anıl Şerifoğlu (talk) 10:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
The Stele Chronicles (Expanded) (history - links - logs - delete - protect)
As explained here, these novellas do not warrant separate pages, as the story bits are integrated into the strategy guides themselves (X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide, X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide, TIE Fighter: The Official Strategy Guide, and TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide). This isn't even the case for Stele Chronicles, as the novella's story is only referenced in the guides. UberSoldat93 
(talk) 08:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Delete
- UberSoldat93
(talk) 08:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC) - As I said on that page, I'm not really familiar with the sources and am fine with either way. It's good to have this issue resolved (thanks Uber!). OOM 224 (he/him) 08:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Rsand 30 (talk) 14:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Cade
Calrayn 14:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC) - —spookywillowwtalk 15:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Fan26 (Talk) 16:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wok142 (talk) 17:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Anıl Şerifoğlu (talk) 19:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lewisr (talk) 03:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Rakhsh (talk) 20:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Booply (talk) 16:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Keep
- JMM (talk) 18:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- JMAS Hey, it's me! 17:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Agree with JMM: it's important to cite all Appearances in narrative works. A publisher may choose, for whatever reason, to make a particular narrative work harder to identify in isolation; that doesn't relieve us of our responsibility to document it. Asithol (talk) 22:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Comments
- I created these pages, so may as well defend the idea again. The point of these was to have a way to cite the story/novella portions of the guides under "Appearances" since just mentioning characters in the "Sources" section doesn't fully show people that they weren't just mentioned, but were actually part of a narrative. The same way short stories are listed separately from RPG sourcebooks they appear in. JMM (talk) 18:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- I feel like this will ultimately just be a part of a larger discussion we need to have about how we're treating unnamed narrative pieces included within Sources works, like some of the narrative fiction in WEG and FFG sourcebooks. Imperators II(Talk) 19:05, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Probably, but for now I feel these pages aren't necessary. UberSoldat93 (talk) 11:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- I just felt that this site should be able to be a reference guide for not just fans but writers. And while those separate articles could be seen as redundant in some ways, if someone looks up how many times a character has a story "Appearance" and only sees them under "Sources" they'll likely assume they were only mentioned in that book. Especially for characters who have only appeared in a story portion of that guide book. JMM (talk) 13:23, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Probably, but for now I feel these pages aren't necessary. UberSoldat93
The Farlander Papers (Expanded) (history - links - logs - delete - protect)
Per reasoning above. UberSoldat93 (talk)
Delete
- UberSoldat93 (talk) 08:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- OOM 224 (he/him) 08:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Rsand 30 (talk) 14:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Cade Calrayn 14:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- —spookywillowwtalk 15:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Fan26 (Talk) 16:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wok142 (talk) 17:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Anıl Şerifoğlu (talk) 19:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lewisr (talk) 03:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Rakhsh (talk) 20:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Keep
- JMM (talk) 18:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- JMAS Hey, it's me! 17:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- As above. Asithol (talk) 22:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)