Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StarCraft: Uprising

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Mackensen (talk) 10:57, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

StarCraft: Uprising

This overlong article for a spinoff book from a computer game is comprised of what can only be described as POV Fancruft which does not provide context or demonstrate notability per WP:FICTION, and tagged as such since July 2007. Notability has been assumed to be inhertited from the computer game, but should be evidenced by independent sources. --Gavin Collins 08:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (restart from scratch, establishing notability from the word go). In it's current state this article might as well be a straight copy of the book (I'm the one who tagged it). It is a surmountable problem (although a problem that will require a lot of work to overcome), but my reasoning for deletion is close with the final paragraph of WP:RUBBISH: "Sometimes the current article is so poor that deleting the whole article and history, and starting from scratch is the best option." This article needs to be entirely restarted. Plus, whilst SC novels are on my to-do list, they are at the bottom of it and it will take me a few months to get round to redoing them. Until then (unless anyone else wants to give it a shot...), I'd say delete the page and redirect to StarCraft. In any case, POV is not an issue - notability is. And can I please direct you, Gavin Collins to this essay section before you tag more fiction articles for deletion. -- Sabre 09:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of StarCraft novels (and create)... 132.205.44.5 21:48, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge -- preferably to a List of StarCraft novels article created for the purpose. This article gives far more plot detail than is necessary, but a list of the novels with data about them (author, date, etc) and brief plot summaries would do well to cover this aspect of the StarCraft universe. I don't think POV really applies here either (though in a different way than it didn't apply in the discussion about the Star Fleet Universe) -- what point of view is this article advancing? Pinball22 18:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. If you'd remove the (incredibly long) plot section, the only thing that would remain is the intro (which does not establish notability, it just says that it was authorised by a notable game company and published by a notable publisher, and notability is not inherited), and a list of contradictions with the video game. I couldn't find any relevant sources that establish the notability of the book. Melsaran (talk) 09:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Please read Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Fancruft_and_Role_playing_games before commenting on this AfD - Fosnez 14:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment WP:FICT deals with notability within a fictional work, so it doesn't really apply to this situation. What you're likely looking for is Wikipedia:Notability (books). -- Ned Scott 06:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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