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The result was merge‎ to William F. Wu. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:38, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Nonnotable non-Asimov's book series tagged for two years woth no independent refs. --Altenmann >talk 04:41, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science fiction and fantasy and Literature. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Hm. The author appears to be notable (entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction), so at minimum this should redirect to William F. Wu. A quick search turned up some reviews for individual entries in the series, such as this for Marauder, this for Dictator, and this for Invader. TompaDompa (talk) 13:05, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • In this case merge/redirect may would be a good idea. (@Spideog: (merging done, with TompaDompa's refs) --Altenmann >talk 18:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Books of no apparent notability, they are NOT by Asimov but simply trade off his name as marketing to children. They could, if necessary, be adequately covered by listing them at the author's page. Spideog (talk) 14:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I forget what we decided to do with book series where no one individual volume is notable, but there is enough RS'ing for the series as a whole. I think this might be a keep based on the above, but I agree a merge (or redirect) to the notable author is the minimum we should expect here. Jclemens (talk) 16:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment it looks like there are several "Isaac Asimov's Robots XXX" series, in addiyion to Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time, see Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens and Isaac Asimov's Robot City. I will take a look closer. --Altenmann >talk 17:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to William F. Wu seems best, as there are limited secondary sources as already described by TompaDompa. This journal article has a very brief characterization which can provide one additional sentence of useful commentary. Daranios (talk) 19:36, 13 January 2025 (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.