Talk:Superman & Batman: Generations I

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I've redirected this article, it's an overlong detailed plot description. Guidance on writing about fiction precludes such detailed plot synopsis.

Wikipedia is an out-of-universe source, and all articles about fiction and elements of fiction should take an out-of-universe perspective.
- This article failed to discuss the out-of-universe perspective, presenting all information from within.

(ensure) fictional passages are short, grounded with real-world language, and do not form more than a small portion of the article.
- Again, this article failed to consider this issue, being over 30k in size and detailing only a four issue limited series.

Articles about fictional topics should not be simple book reports; instead, the topic should be explained through its significance on the work. The reader should be able to feel like they understand why a character, place, or event was included in the fictional work after reading an article about one. A reader should be able to understand why this person/place/thing/event is relevant to the story.
- To my mind, this article was a book report, thus breaching the above guidance.

It is generally appropriate for a plot summary to remain part of the main article, not a lengthy page of its own. Wikibooks, Wikipedia's sibling project, contains instructional and educational texts. These include annotated works of fiction (on the [[wikibooks:Wikibooks:annotated texts bookshelf) for classroom or private study use. Wikisource, similarly, holds original public domain and GFDL source texts. See wikisource:Wikisource:Wikisource and Wikibooks.
- Plot should be part of the main article, not a separate article, again a point on which this article failed. Hiding Talk 21:23, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]