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Unreferenced WP:OR. Intrestingly, the definition ended up being cited (and attributed to Wikipedia) in a RS (a book published by McFarland, p.118, footnote confirming the source is Wikipedia is on p.123]. Without the attribution this definition ("overarching storyline") also appears in this academic paper. The term does appear in few more (academic, reliable) sources but I can't find anything that meets WP:SIGCOV. Aside of the interesting case of almost WP:CITOGENESIS, I wonder if anyone can rescue this, or should be just delete or redirect this? (redirect where? Maybe Setting (narrative) or even better, perhaps, Campaign setting?) The best I have is half a sentence long reworded def in here. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and Games. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
• Merge to Metanarrative, perhaps? I think the article is poorly thought out, the list incomplete, and I'm not sure it's worth saving. It includes Rifts (role-playing game) which seems to me the quintessential "Let's throw all this stuff we wrote together and call it a multiverse" as opposed to previous games from the same developer such as The Mechanoid Invasion. Classic entries like The Morrow Project are missing, and it doesn't at all engage with literature-driven games like Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game). Could it be salvaged? On first read, my inclination that it does such a bad job of what it sets out to do that it shouldn't be. Jclemens (talk) 16:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

  @Jclemens I don't think metanarrative is a similar concept. Or they are just both badly written, perhaps (metanarrative has sources but it is also a postmodernistic mambo jumbo). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:08, 6 August 2022 (UTC)