Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dark Knight Trilogy


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The result was merge to Batman in film. czar 20:30, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

The Dark Knight Trilogy

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Should be redirected to the superior Batman in film article. WP:CONTENTFORK that should never have been created in the first place. Following the recent discussion Articles for deletion/Batman (1989–1997 film series), same situation applies here. Rob Sinden (talk) 11:01, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   11:17, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   11:17, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's enough independent coverage to have a standalone article on this topic, though it could use a lot of improvements. ~ TheJoebro64 (talk) 15:18, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge - the Batman in Film article devotes about 1100 words to this trilogy. The nominated article is 1500 words (prose), and a significant portion of that (480 words) is devoted to home media. Another 300 words is about Batman: Gotham Knight and videogame tie-ins. That means the nominated article actually has less information on the three films than Batman in Film. The Gotham Knight material should be merged into Batman in Film (currently it has a one-line mention). The home media and video game information is already present on the individual movie pages. As an aside, the "Proposed Justice League film" section at BiF should be moved to the DC Extended Universe section. The text even makes clear that it's entirely unrelated to Nolan's work. Argento Surfer (talk) 15:48, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Then we could try and get some of the information from Batman in film to insert into here. I still feel this is a topic notable enough for its own separate article: it's been widely covered by independent sources, and even today news stories about the movies will still pop up. ~ TheJoebro64 (talk) 16:22, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure - there are articles like this one, for example, but there's no doubt this is a content fork. BiF is the parent topic over the Dark Knight Trilogy, and the BiF article is about 5300 words (readable prose, 5600 if the Gotham Knight section is merged). The lower range for a WP:SIZESPLIT is 6000 words. If you want to take it upon yourself to expand the DK part of BiF so a size split is warranted, I wouldn't oppose greatly reducing the BiF portion and adding a main article template. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:37, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Argento Surfer. The subject is notable, and I'm sure there is some interesting scholarly analysis of the impact of the series that could be included but hasn't, but that also belongs to 'Batman in Film'. And while that article is getting long, it's also got some (what I consider to be) unnecessary detail that could be trimmed so it could focus on the film series as a whole. Scribolt (talk) 13:39, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect per outcome at Articles for deletion/Batman (1989–1997 film series). While there is no question the trilogy is notable the article duplicates the content at Batman in film and List of Batman films cast members, which provide comprehensive coverage of all the Batman films. Betty Logan (talk) 23:04, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Winged Blades Godric  06:20, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge to Batman in film per nom and comments. Notable but info can be better presented within context of all Batman films. --  Wikipedical (talk) 06:32, 3 June 2017 (UTC)


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