Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Three Worlds Cycle


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The result was redirect to Ian Irvine. (non-admin closure) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:56, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

The Three Worlds Cycle

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Not seeing a pass of WP:NBOOK; in fact, I couldn't find a single reliable review online (Googling "three worlds cycle" review and "view from the mirror" review). There's some stuff on Goodreads and some blog posts, but not much else. Suggesting redirect to Ian Irvine, the author of the series. Ovinus (talk) 20:29, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. Ovinus (talk) 20:29, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:38, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep, rename to Three Worlds (Ian Irvine). This is not a book, so no wonder it is not "reviewed". But the term may be found on book covers, not only on fansites and blogs. This is a descriptive term used by  the author themselves for the book cycle. I suggest renaming  because there are several other series referred to as "Three Worlds books", "Three Worlds series", etc.  The author themselves uses the latter two, meaning that "Cycle" is not part of the "proper name". Loew Galitz (talk) 21:52, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Are there reviews of any of the individual books, though? I could not find anything reliable for "view from the mirror", nor "a shadow on the glass", "the tower on the rift". Ovinus (talk) 21:57, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That's not the point. And same here, I am pondering on the idea to AfD all articles about Irving's books, because all of them seem to be in-universe fancruft.  But I am lazy, and pages are harmless, so I leave the job to "hardcore deletionists" Loew Galitz (talk) 22:22, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * P.S. And I think that Three Worlds (Ian Irvine) may be a good "merge/redirect" target for reliable info about all its novels. Loew Galitz (talk) 23:06, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hm, I don't consider myself hardcore... :P Anyway, I agree that that's a conceivable target, but where is the reliable info? I really can't find anything besides self-published sources. The most likely redirect target is Ian Irvine, which I've added to the nom statement. Ovinus (talk) 01:04, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:20, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Ian Irvine. Non-notable book series; pretty much unreferenced and no references provided in disucssion here so far. Yes, it exists, that doesn't meen we need a catalogue/fancruft entry about it. WP:NOTCATALOGUE, etc. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:19, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Piotrus. Coverage of these books in reliable sources appears to be either vanishingly insubstantial or entirely nonexistent. Even if there were reviews of the individual books, they wouldn't confer notability on the series as a whole. But no harm pointing readers to the author's article, which can justifiably at least tell them the names of the books in the series and when they were published. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:51, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect/Merge to WP:PRESERVE. There aren't sources to confer notability on this as a separate article but it does tie together several notable books written by Ian Irvine. Archrogue (talk) 19:47, 15 August 2022 (UTC)


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