Deletion of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter

Comment: Looking at the Google News link above, I do see book reviews or mentions in apparently RS'es, making the  arguably met and requiring an appropriate amendment to the nomination statement to encompass them. Further, the above suggestions to merge multiple expanded universe novels together provide a policy-based alternative to deletion per -M.  As a general rule, material in large franchises like Star Wars can be much better and less controversially improved through merging
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:ATD)

Comment: per Bushranger. Presumably many Star Wars novel articles fall into the class of " articles created when notability guidelines were looser and should no longer have standalone articles." But Star Wars novels as a class have multiple targets for merging, whether that is a (potentially hypothetical) article on the series that the book is part of, or a list of Star Wars books. Star Wars novels as a class is certainly notable, so it would make much more sense to have a discussion at a relevant WikiProject forum and ID Star Wars novels that should be upmerged into a series page/list article as an -M|alternative to deletion. Also,  is not always an invalid argument, when used to argue that articles which are obviously in the same class (e.g. Star Wars novels) should be treated consistently unless there is good reason not to, that's an entirely valid argument
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD||WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS)

Comment: Yes, it may well be true that "not all Star Wars novels are notable", and it's almost certainly true that just ''being'' a Star Wars novel does not in itself infer notability. But a look at the contents of {{tl|Star Wars Legends novels}} indicates that ''very nearly all'' of them have articles, with only one exception that isn't either a YA novel (of which all but two have articles) or an ebook supplement to a novel. Considering this, this is something that needs a discussion at the relevant WikiProject/s as to whether or not "being a Star Wars book" should equal "has an article", and if the answer is "no" then there needs to be a mass ''redirection'' (to either a series article, such as ''Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi'', or to List of Star Wars books) of the articles in question. Until then, individual articles shouldn't be sniped at AfD, either as |good faith "oh, this isn't notable" nominations (such as this one) or as the sort of "we'll whittle this down one by one" sort of |pointiness that I've seen too often, alas, to be able to rule out somebody getting the idea of when they read this
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF||WP:POINT)