Talk:Supernovae in fiction

Proposed merge
(1) Precedent is for "X in fiction" pages, where X is a scientific article, to be placed in separate articles. (2) This material is not properly cited, whereas supernova is an FA rated article. The addition of this material would subject the supernova page to an FAR and possibly demotion. So it would need to be stripped out.&mdash;RJH (talk) 16:30, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure. Nearly every scifi franchise has involved supernovae at some point, so a fiction list would be unending. Instead of a list, it might be a good idea to create a subsection dealing with the way supernovae are often portrayed in scifi, particularly the inaccuracies, such as our Sun or a tiny red star going nova.  Serendi pod ous  09:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The Supernova article is already past the upper limit on article size, even after the material has been split into several sub-articles. I'm sure that may be a fine idea for an article, but I would prefer to see that developed on its own page. This would be in line with the multitude of other articles along a similar vein; all of which suffer from similar abyssmal lack of citations. In it's present form this simply isn't FA worthy material.&mdash;RJH (talk) 23:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Another "induced" example
Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise has a whole chapter devoted to describing an induced supernova (the sun's core is momentarily removed somehow, placed in a pocket universe where quintillions of years pass in a fraction of a second our time, and then restored to the center of the star as a hunk of supercold iron. Boom within minutes, great description of the effect of the supernova on the solar system, the settled planet within it, and its outlying space stations as the neutrino wave and its lethal radiation spreads outward and only a few escape it in time.

Ought we to include it? Daniel Case (talk) 00:28, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I haven't seen it discussed (or even mentioned) in any sources on the overarching topic of the article—Supernovae in fiction—and a quick search does not bring up any that I might have missed (though there could of course be others that I have still missed), so I say no on the basis that it would be out of WP:PROPORTION to its treatment by sources on the subject. TompaDompa (talk) 03:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)