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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 Redirect all. Imperators II(Talk) 07:48, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Marvel Age issues

These articles are issues of the Marvel Comics magazine series Marvel Age. The series functioned as an in-print comics solicitation and also occasionally featured special articles that spotlighted the production of various Marvel Star Wars comic books. To be clear, a solicitation is a 1-2 sentence blurb that provides a brief synopsis of an upcoming issue as well as its release date.

The vast majority of Marvel Age articles on the wiki are stubs with no real relevant Star Wars information outside of the fact that they list a comic issue's release date. This functionally makes them no more relevant to the franchise than the modern equivalent of online solicitation news articles or sites like Previews World. Only Marvel Age issues that do not have substantive Star Wars content have been listed through this TC. To prevent redlinks, all listed articles are now cited through the {{BookCite}} template on various pages. Dentface (talk) 00:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Redirect to Marvel Age

  1. As nominator. Dentface (talk) 00:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
  2. Imperators II(Talk) 06:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
  3. Yeah, I'm convinced. It's true that it's official but having just a page for the series should suffice. JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 03:45, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
  4. OOM 224 07:05, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
  5. JMM (talk) 16:04, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
  6. Corellian PremierRogue SquadronMTFBWY 03:02, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
  7. Lewisr (talk) 23:48, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
  8. SaintSirNicholas (talk) 23:56, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
  9. BloodOfIrizi (talk) 00:25, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
  10. Wok142 (talk) 06:56, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Delete

  1. JMM (talk) 12:47, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep

Comments

  • "spotlighted the production of various Marvel Star Wars comic books." Is this BTS info in the comics then? NBDani (talk) 00:30, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
    • Marvel Age 4, 10, 27, and 37 all have articles that discuss the development of the Marvel Star Wars comics at the time. As such, they are not included in this TC. All issues listed in this TC have no BTS info or substantive info outside of listing a 2-sentence summary and release date in a massive bulleted list with other non-SW comics. Does this answer your question? :) Dentface (talk) 00:33, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
  • I'd personally prefer some consistency and I think a larger discussion needs to happen about how we treat these magazines. Personally I'd be ok with all issued redirecting to the main page for the magazine , I'm not convinced we need articles on the magazine articles and their authors either since that is an in-print equivalent of an online interview, if my understanding is correct. As such, wouldnt we simply use bookcite for ALL references needed for these magazines? Do we even need a page for Marvel Age? Manoof (he/him/his) (talk) 00:50, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
    • Honestly, that's a very good point. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this as well. Marvel Age isn't an official Star Wars publication in itself, and like you said it's like an online interview. Plus, I'm sure there have been countless mini-articles like this in other publications over the decades, and they certainly don't merit pages on the wiki. Why should this Marvel magazine be any different? The only issue that would maybe give me pause is Marvel Age 10, in which Star Wars is the cover story, but even then, the article in question is barely 2 pages. Any relevant info from the interviews in that issue and others I suppose could just be put in relevant BTS sections or on author articles. I'd like to hear what others thing regarding this, but I'd personally be okay deleting every Marvel Age article, including the main series page. Dentface (talk) 01:03, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
  • I see at least one of the Marvel Age issues has a cover with Star Wars-centered art - is that unique to Marvel Age? And if it is, would it not make at least that specific issue(s) notable enough to warrant covering them on the Wook? Imperators II(Talk) 11:20, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
    • There is only one issue with art like that. While yes, it is unique, the contents inside are not. There are plenty of news magazines out there with a Star Wars cover and cover story, but we don't cover them. As far as I can see, we only cover issues that contain only information exclusive to Star Wars, such as Entertainment Weekly's Ultimate Guide to Rogue One. The issue of Marvel Age only has 1 Star Wars article and the unique cover. If we kept every magazine issue that did that, we'd have hundreds of more pages than we do now. Dentface (talk) 14:35, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
  • To speak to what everyone said above, I think it's worth having some reference to Marvel Age, and I think it's a little more of an "official" source than other random magazines since it's from the license holder and talks to the creators. It also gives some interesting details about the comic as it's being developed. I'd suggest just leaving that one article for the series itself, listing the relevant issues and not giving them individual articles. And maybe just add more details about what each issue includes. And illustrating the article with the image of the Star Wars cover lets that unique artwork be included here. But the other non-relevant issues that are part of this TC should definitely go. --JMM (talk) 13:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)