Talk:DC Animated Universe

RFD discussion: December 2017–January 2018
Seems very "brand-like" (whether a brand or not) and SoP. Compare "Atari 8-bit family" which also recently was challenged. Equinox ◑ 00:02, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if this term was created by fans or by DC, but I'd say keep if it was created by fans. I created DC Animated Universe, DCAU for the abbreviation, and Timmverse which is a synonym. The DCAU is about a specific set of DC animated series, not any DC animated series as the name might suggest. For example,  is DC and is animated but is not part of the DCAU. So this is a term that "it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means", as quoted from WT:CFI. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 00:07, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: If this is deleted, I'm planning to move the current definition to DCAU. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 14:31, 23 December 2017 (UTC)


 * That is scope creep. More reasonable to leave WP to define it, and at DCAU have "initialism of ". Equinox ◑ 14:34, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * OK. I think I'm fine with leaving WP to define it, and at DCAU having "initialism of ". --Daniel Carrero (talk) 22:02, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Still, "DC Animated Universe" is SOP idiomatic, since it does not just mean DC + animated + universe. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 07:59, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. Purely encyclopedic. bd2412 T 02:54, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. PseudoSkull (talk) 03:38, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, not lexical. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 21:59, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as SoP. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:07, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not SOP. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 08:19, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not. It essentially means the universe (sense 4) of animated cartoons produced by DC Comics. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:23, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It may seem like that, but it's actually only a specific, small subset of that. And that's why I thought it would be a good idea to have an entry for it. The DCAU is the shared universe created by some people including Bruce Timm, hence its synonym, the Timmverse. ' (2013 TV series) and ' (2006 TV series) are part of the universe (sense 4) of animated cartoons produced by DC Comics, but they're not part of the DC Animated Universe. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 08:32, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * This seems similar to us having an entry for a specific named media franchise on the grounds that fans disagree on what is "canon" and what isn't, and therefore may use the same word to denote different subgroups of the franchise, in a way that is not guessable by outsiders. Just not lexical. Equinox ◑ 14:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * That is a completely separate thing. I was just stating why "DC Animated Universe" is idiomatic rather than SOP. I even agree with your first statement in this discussion, that the entry is "brand-like", and maybe it can even be deleted on those grounds. But SOP this is not. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 16:02, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete DCDuring (talk) 15:36, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 16:30, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * By the way, the current quotation at doesn't support the entry. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:18, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is easily cited, if anyone wants to bother. bd2412 T 02:13, 18 January 2018 (UTC)