Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Codex Series

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 of the debate was keep, no consensus. SushiGeek 03:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Codex Series

Not enough information to form an article, this is unnecessary due to both "The Codex" and "Heretic" having their own articles.--Zxcvbnm 15:36, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete. Unnotable, promotional internet "machinima." NTK 20:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. "The Codex Series" is what a lot of the fans call "The Codex" because of its web address, so a seperate article is valid for purposes of clarification that it is NOT simply "The Codex." It serves the function of a disambiguation page: describing the differences between what you searched for and what you meant to search for. And I'd hardly call the most popular peer-produced machinima series in history "unnotable" NTK. Tex Murphy 02:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment. Tex Murphy's first edit was February 24, 2006, and other than adding a few brackets to two articles, has only edited The Codex, The Codex Series, and Edgeworks Entertainment. NTK 10:27, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment. Yeah, I'm a fan. I don't have to spend a lot of time here to make points, do I? I agree with TKD's idea of merging it with Edgeworks, they hold a lot of the same info, but the fact remains that The Codex Series is something that is different from The Codex, and should be allowed to remain as a clarification page. When The Heretic starts it could hold comparisons between the series, connections and over-arching themes, it deserves its own article, although I suppose that could be held in The Codex Series's section of Edgeworks, if they were merged. Tex Murphy 06:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep and merge Edgeworks Entertainment to here. EE is known only for The Codex Series, and it seems redundant to have a separate article for each, at this point (esecially since the EE article doesn't contain much that isn't covered by The Codex Series, The Codex, and The Heretic articles. — TKD::Talk 06:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Second. I like that idea, although I'd say if one had to go then The Codex Series should be a redirect to Edgeworks rather than Edgeworks being merged to here, since Edgeworks has a bit about The Codex Series that could serve the clarification function of this page. Tex Murphy 06:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Not sure speifically which section you're referring to, but text could always be moved from one article to the other. My rationale for having The Codex Series as the "main" article is that there's not much to write about EE except in the context of The Codex Series. — TKD::Talk 03:28, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Its not fantastically important, I just figured that the reason for having a "The Codex Series" page would be to clarify about the distinction between that and "The Codex", but that distinction is made in the description of "The Codex Series" on the Edgeworks page, thus making its own page unnecessary. That way, Edgeworks, which is its own entity and idea, has its own page, and The Codex Series, which is really more of a point of clarification, is just a point of clarification on the Edgeworks page. You see what I mean? If someone searched for "The Codex Series" and found its blurb on the Edgeworks page, they would have found what they were looking for, but if someone searched for Edgeworks and found a page about The Codex Series, they would still be unsatisfied. Not to mention it leaves open room should they start another series in Edgeworks that doesn't fit into "The Codex Series": it could just be a new section of the Edgeworks page, but it wouldn't work on a "The Codex Series" page, you know? 68.181.241.78 05:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, any reader confusion could be resolved by a strong lead, too. It's not as if a redirect has to stay that way forever. The Codex Series was a redirect to The Codex until recently. Redirects from related terms occur all the time. And those redirects get turned into articles once the target article becomes too big or new information requires expansion. If Edgeworks does a second series, then the redirect could be eliminated. If the lead sentence of The Codex Series mentions that it's Edgeworks Enterntainment's machinima series, I think most people would probably realize why they were redirected. :) — TKD::Talk 06:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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.