Talk:A Beautiful Sunset

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Have created a page for the upcoming Buffy comic "A Beautiful Sunset". There seems to have been some controversy over previous versions of this article. As a result none of the previous information has been reused. I have recreated this article because the comics' release is immanent (within the next week), and a page for it will be necessary. Notability for this article is due to its introduction of the main villain of the current Buffy "season" to the primary character of said franchise; this should mean the comic will be relevant/important to the overall story-arc of Buffy Season 8. It should also be noted that all of the other story-arcs have dedicated articles on them, as do all of the episodes of the show itself. --Cyclonius (talk) 23:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

As the problem with the article was crystal balling and having an article on an individual issue of a comic (for which there are different standards from episodes) I am re-deleting, and protecting the page against these spurious recreations. Phil Sandifer (talk) 03:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

As a note, I am happy to lift this protection if someone can show me the start of a good article on the subject - that is, one that approaches it from an out-of-universe perspective and shows the significance of this particular issue. But otherwise, the longstanding convention on comics is that individual issues rarely have articles. Phil Sandifer (talk) 06:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Having now read this issue, I'd like to point it out again as a cautionary tale about forward looking articles that are based on speculation instead of information. Despite introducing the "big bad," in practice, this issue had little information about him, was largely a tease, and after reading it there's still little sense of how to contextualize it. It is, in other words, not something about which a good article can be written right now. Nor was it months ago. Phil Sandifer (talk) 21:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)