Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midkemia

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 The Riftwar Cycle. No consensus to Keep; consensus for an Smerge to The Riftwar Cycle, no prejudice to a straight Redirect instead if an smerge is not forthcoming (non-admin closure) Britishfinance (talk) 01:18, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Midkemia

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Non-notable topic. No sourcing currently. TTN (talk) 17:14, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 17:14, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Smerge (to The Riftwar Cycle if necessary)... although what I'd really like to advocate for here is a marginally more radical approach. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle is unquestionably notable, with quite a bit of independent discussion in reliable sources, even if the sourcing at that article doesn't show it. Having a cogent, thorough article about the long-running series of books necessitates a discussion of the setting, but any halfway competent effort, even in strict summary style, is probably going to be too long to easily fit into an article whose primary purpose is to serve as a list of books. I'd like to propose that the best solution here is to take the Midkemia article, along with Kelewan, Novindus, and everything listed under "Nations" in the navigation template, and brutally cull the content into a summary-style article probably best titled Setting of The Riftwar Cycle. That would be at least vaguely policy compliant (per WP:SPINOUT and the willingness to accept plot and setting summaries as essential to understanding the context of fictional works) and does in fact have some reliable sources available, as there's been at least limited discussion of Feist's adaptation of Nahuatl and Eastern trappings for some of his imagery in place of the genre-standard Tolkeinesque medieval European pastiche. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:52, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:38, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to The Riftwar Cycle, with a selective merge of any reliably sourced material deemed useful. Squeamish Ossifrage makes a good case for a single general setting summary article that can be reliably sourced and a redirect would preserve in the article history any useful content for that enterprise. If the general article never gets written, a redirect is still a reasonable course, as this is a plausible search term and redirects are cheap. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 17:57, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.