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List of Buffyverse guidebooks

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List of Buffyverse guidebooks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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The guidebooks themselves are not notable by any GNG measure. Buffyverse and buffy itself, yes, but not these guidebooks. Iljhgtn (talk) 10:21, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature, Television, and Lists. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
• Delete. The guidebooks can be used as sources, but aren't noteworthy to be written about themselves. They are like the pre-internet version of a TV show's official web presence. – sgeureka ^t•c 08:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
• Comment do these books constitute a series, or are they just a collection of unrelated books? If not, there's surely somewhere this content can be merged, even if a BEFORE (was one done?) didn't find anything. Jclemens (talk) 16:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science fiction and fantasy. Daranios (talk) 15:37, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
• Keep or merge I wonder if there are reviews for the individual books. We know that there is at least one for the Watcher's Guide Vol. 2 because it is linked in the article. I am not sure if the other links are reliable sources. If there were, then this list might just be the place to collect them under WP:CSC, where the individual entries of a list themselves fail the notability criterea, but secondary sources exist to cover them. It is also the case that The Buffyverse Catalog (and to a lesser degree The Whedonverse Catalog) as a serious independent source dedicates chapters to the guidebooks, so it's not like there was no coverage. Another secondary source is Undead TV : Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which analyzes "texts such as The Sunnydale High Yearbook and The Watcher's Guide", and thus pretty much Buffyverse guidebooks as a group, as well as guidebooks together with novels, opening up the opportunity to merge this with List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels (and possibly renaming it to List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer books) in case keeping this separate is not wanted. Daranios (talk) 15:37, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
• Merge to List of Buffyverse novels and rename it List of Buffyverse books. More appropriate merge target since both lists cover Buffy and Angel books. --Mika1h (talk) 15:37, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

  Actually the list could be rather be renamed to List of Buffyverse literature if the AFD about the magazine closes as merge. --Mika1h (talk) 15:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

  There are other articles that could be merged in, too. Sunnydale High Yearbook survived an AfD earlier this year, but might well be better presented in such a combined article. Jclemens (talk) 06:14, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Fitting for Fandom at best. Lists like this needs to be purged off the already bloated Wikipedia site to keep it from becoming the poor Fandom imitation it already is. SpacedFarmer (talk) 23:35, 29 July 2024 (UTC)