Talk:Before Watchmen

Merge discussion

• Against merge, since all of those articles have ample news coverage, and multiple reviews have been put into all of them. Also, if you want to start a merge discussion, then you need to actually start it. Post why you think we should eliminate referenced articles that clearly meet the GNG and other requirements of Wikipedia, and how this would somehow benefit Wikipedia. Dream Focus 22:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
• Support merge, I apologize, I did not know those were the rules. The reason I think they should be merged is brcause I don't think each idividual article is big enough to warrant such individuality, also the main article is small enough to include all the information from the idividual articles. It's not like the article for the original series has seperate articles for the individual issues or Tales of the Black Frieghter so it makes sense for the sake of consistency. Charles Essie (talk) 17:23, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

  These are individual comic book titles, with different writers and artists, focusing on different story lines. Its like how the Justice League comic book has a bunch of heroes working together, but they also have their own individual comic book series. And size isn't a legitimate reason to delete articles. There is no way you would be able to merge all the content to one article, listing a description of each comic book series along with all the reception/review sections. Dream Focus 17:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

  Maybe size isn't an issue, and I guess they are idividual titles, not issues, but you can't compare the Watchmen to the Justice League, they were individual characters created seperatly in different decades by different writers and then united, the Watchmen were created together by Alan Moore and David Gibbons for a limited series. That said, Before Watchmen might, like the original series, be united in a graphic novel, should that happen the articles should be united, if it doesn't still be taken under consideration. Charles Essie (talk) 01:19, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

  Too many issues total to be all combined together. And I believe the writers get paid for things like this according to sales of the single issues and the collections, so they'd not be mixing that together. Doesn't matter anyway though. No reason to merge, they all separate comic books, all notable on their own, as proven by reviews found and placed in the reception section when I created these articles. Dream Focus 02:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

• Merge Each mini-series are short and part of a broader Before Watchmen series. It would make more sense to have one decent size article than a bunch of tiny stub articles. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 14:00, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

  Would the reception areas alone for these seven articles fit in the main existing article? It'd be too long. Dream Focus 16:08, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

• Merge - They all fit under the "Before Watchmen" umbrella, and are connected by a backup story spanning every issue. The reception section can be brief "well recieved" or "critically panned" with lots of citations for anyone interested in specifics. Argento Surfer (talk) 17:10, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
• Support merge: Again, passing GNG doesn't preclude merger pbp 18:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

  How did you find your way here? Have you ever edited comic book articles before? WP:WIKIHOUNDING says you can't just follow someone around. Dream Focus 21:28, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

  Please avoid personal attacks and stick to the merits of the discussion pbp 22:12, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

  Did you specifically follow me here or not? "Again, passing GNG doesn't preclude merger" sounds like you are carrying a disagreement we had elsewhere over to here. Dream Focus 22:19, 11 October 2012 (UTC)