Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buffyverse chronology
First of all, references to "cruft" can pretty much be ignored - there's no cruft in policies or guidelines.  Second, this appears to be the equivalent of a list article for an episode index for a television series.  The main difference I can see between this and an episode index is that this article covers multiple related products in the same franchise.  Since episode lists for television series are permitted, I don't see a problem allowing for this sort of cross-product list as well since it probably would help interested readers more efficiently navigate the related articles.  The main short-coming, which appears to be correctable, is that currently the references for the "in world" dates and other information are buried in the corresponding articles.  However, since those references almost certainly exist, and can be appended to this article, I'm for keeping the article in place and allowing for its contributors to clean it up a little by providing some in-article sourcing and removing any statements that might not be verifiable.  Note that the article does ''not'' appear to be an extended "plot summary", and does serve as a useful index for a larger multi-article topic, thus not violating the #IINFO section on Plot Summaries or violating 
— User:Dugwiki, 21:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:FICT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)