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Merger proposal[edit]

I propose that the whole series should be merged into one article. It may as well use the same title as

Star Trek: A Time to... at Memory Alpha

Even Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier series only has one article here at present; as many of those books have been New York Times bestsellers, they might deserve articles of their own, but in a general encyclopedia, one article for the series is probably enough. The same goes for the less notable series of Star Trek novels. Fayenatic (talk) 20:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment originally placed on my user talk page:

I noticed you de-prod'd one of the Star Trek novels. I was actually going to try and find time to go through the lot and prod or AFD all of those that do not meet WP:FICTION... however if you're familiar enough with the content and willing to take the time, I think it would be a better idea to merge all of them into the one article, per your suggestion. I still believe the series, on a whole, needs to meet WP:N guidelines, but one article is much more tolerable than 2899873289289 stubs of non-notable fiction. Good idea! /Blaxthos 19:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

jesus, i'd forgotten about these books i have no objection to them being merged, ideas on how to merge them? perhaps one paragraph at top summarising the series and then just copy and pasting current plot descriptions i wrote, unless there is some wiki code to do it? i dont edit much so i dont know much about wiki code--Colsmeghead 17:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you logged in again! I suggest you move the first article (use the Move tab at the top) to the new title Star Trek: A Time to.... Then, as you say, copy and paste in the plot summaries of the others (where you have done one), and change each of them to simply redirect to the main article.

I would structure the content with a brief intro section that explains where the series fits into the overall timeline, and a closing section that shows what it adds to the canon (e.g. re Wesley, from the article on the final book). These should establish that the series is sufficiently notable to remain as an article in Wikipedia. (I haven't actually read these books; I just noticed that someone had proposed to delete the articles, and proposed merger instead of deletion as I thought the content was worth saving.) - Fayenatic (talk) 22:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Concur. Merge. Kevyn (talk) 19:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]