Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pool of Radiance (novel)


 * 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   merge to Pool of Radiance. Black Kite (talk) 15:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Pool of Radiance (novel)

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Fails the notability guideline for novels. Claritas § 15:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support or Merge (as below) as the editor who originally proposed deletion on listed grounds, though I'll note that User:Jclemens removed my proposal expressing a belief that, because the novel inspired the first of several D&D games, there may be sufficient sources to satisfy the notability guideline. I'm open to that possibility, but I'm equally open to the possibility that no sourcing is available for this. In any event, I've advised them of this discussion. Doniago (talk) 15:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge with Pool of Radiance. The book might not be clearly notable on its own, but at least some of the article's content can be included with the main video game article. —Torchiest talkedits 15:47, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * merge all there are 3 pages, one for each novel in the series. All should be merged to the game article. If sources can be found which can significantly expand the novel articles, then they could be split out, but as it is, there is no reason to have an essentially one paragraph page for the novel. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Minor point: there are corresponding games for each of those novels as well, so they would need to be merged to three different targets, not all to the first game in the series. —Torchiest talkedits 13:38, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Torchiest; I don't think the novel is notable in its own right but the information here would serve as a useful extension to the main article.Vulcan&#39;s Forge (talk) 02:05, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep pending a search for sources, but merge to Pool of Radiance otherwise. BOZ (talk) 15:54, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep there are two separate merge targets here: 1) merge each novel to its corresponding game, or 2) Merge all three novels into a series. Thus, my argument isn't "keep forever", but rather "keep for now and remand the merge decision to a discussion" since we have two good ideas. Jclemens (talk) 17:27, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.