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Foundation (novel series) is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 10, 2004.

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Date	Process	Result
January 10, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
March 8, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
February 1, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed

Current status: Former featured article

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Text or other creative content from this version of Timeline of Asimov's Foundation Series was copied or moved into Foundation series#Fictional timeline with this edit on 05:32, 30 June 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

On 11 July 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Foundation series to Foundation (book series). The result of the discussion was moved.

Splitting the article

What was the need to split this article into two articles? It was fine as it was. Richard75 (talk) 00:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Richard75. This shouldn't have been split. The split has resulted in an article that largely violates Wikipedia policies, since it is overwhelmingly WP:WEIGHTed towards WP:PRIMARY research. Shooterwalker (talk) 00:04, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 08:18, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation series → Foundation (book series)Foundation (book series) – Foundation (TV series) is also a "series" so this title is an incomplete disambiguation state. And while not a primary topic so page views aren't really needed, per Pageviews it hasn't received more views than the series over the last year Gonnym (talk) 08:10, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Current title is outdated considering the TV series now exists.— TAnthony^Talk 14:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Also, "Foundation series" should redirect to the book series, as that has the most enduring audience (for now). Shooterwalker (talk) 17:57, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and per those above. I would also note that Foundation itself is a disambiguation page, and there are multiple items on the page for which a "series" could conceivably exist. BD2412 T 02:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment if someone could write a franchise article, the "Foundation series" should point there. Foundation Saga seems to be available to use as a franchise article name. This should include the Galactic Empire series, Daneel+Bailey series, I Robot, End of Eternity, the various spin-offs (Caliban, "Fourth Law of Robotics", etc), the TV show, the I Robot movie, etc. ; and discussion on the non-infringing related works like "Psychohistorical Crisis" -- 65.92.247.96 (talk) 08:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Foundation universe maybe? Gonnym (talk) 13:28, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above; the title needs the specificity. Walsh90210 (talk) 19:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:53, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Aoba47 (talk) 14:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Need a detailed plot description?

Most books (and movies and TV shows) have a full descriptive “Plot” section that explains the events of the thing. I was surprised to see the Foundations wiki doesn’t, I believe this means that not many people today have read the book. If someone can add that “that’d be great, thanks”. RandomEditor6772314 (talk) 18:41, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Click the links for the articles about the individual novels. They each have a plot section. This article is about the series as a whole. It has links to each novel. It does not need a plot section. It has nothing to do with how many people have read the novels. As for how long a plot section can be, it is not unlimited. See MOS:NOVELPLOT. Sundayclose (talk) 18:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Joke Claim

Marc Miller, creator of the Traveller tabletop role-playing game, likes to joke that Foundation is based on Isaac Asimov's college Traveller campaign. Of course, it's ridiculous, since Foundation preceded Traveller by 35 years. Washi (talk) 00:16, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]