Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blaster Pistol

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was redirect to Blaster (weapon). Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blaster Pistol
This is pretty much useless. There's already a more comprehensive treatment on the subject on the List of Star Wars weapons page. It'd make more sense to just delete the page and replace it with a redirect to that article. After all, listing every single weapon type in the Star Wars universe in its own entry doesn't make a lot of sense; lightsabers are the obvious exception, but in general, they really don't need individual attention. -- Captain Disdain 00:29, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and merge/delete. ··gracefool |&#9786; 01:55, 31 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Blaster (weapon) Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 02:17, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per Andrew. I'm saddened that Captain Disdain thinks that George Lucas invented blasters! Isaac R 03:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Er, no, I don't. It's just that if you read the article -- what little there is -- it's kind of obvious that the entry is specifically about Star Wars blaster pistols, not blasters in the more generic sense. In any case, that's a fine redirect in my book. -- Captain Disdain 09:56, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, shouldn't have doubted your SF literacy. Still, when we talk about an article, I think it's important that we use as general a context as we can. So if somebody submits an article that assumes that SF == Star Wars, we're not bound by that assumption. Isaac R 19:03, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about it -- like I said, it's a fine redirect in my book. I just didn't think about it beyond "this is a useless Star Wars article, should probably point to the more relevant Star Wars article". Obviously, redirecting it to Blaster (weapon) makes much more sense. -- Captain Disdain 21:33, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per Andrew. Double Blue  (Talk) 03:48, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Blaster (weapon). Megan1967 10:39, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Blaster (weapon), while the article is mostly about SW Blaster pistol is too generic to simply direct to a SW article. -- Lochaber 13:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Blaster (weapon), per Andrew Lenahan. Nothing new to merge anywhere. -- BD2412 talk 17:17, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Starblind &mdash; RJH 19:59, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
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