Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chief medical officer (Star Trek) (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was Delete both. Carlossuarez46 23:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Chief medical officer (Star Trek)
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Similar to this AfD: while characters who hold this position are notable, the job itself is not. This is the same rationale I gave in a previous AfD, where the consensus was to merge it into some "more appropriate" article along with Chief operations officer (Star Trek) (which I'm also re-nominating here). Six months later, however, I'm interpreting the lack of additional action on these articles as a sign that no more-appropriate article is to be had. Rather than have these in-universe stubs linger, I think it is better to remove them. --EEMeltonIV 05:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reason:


 * Delete - These could be categories, but little else. They are very (and permanently) thin. Speciate 05:53, 4 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - Agreed. The lack of independent resources that deal specifically with these two concepts in the Star Trek universe is going to leave this article pretty slender for the rest of its existence. Beyond the obvious already stated in the article, we've got nothing but WP:OR to look forward to. Consequentially
 * Delete per lack of real world coverage attesting notability to these positions Corpx 17:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Excise both warts per nom. Clarityfiend 18:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Everybody wants to create a Star Trek article, and this is pretty lame. Leonard McCoy might well have said, "I'm a doctor, not a 'chief medical officer'."  Mandsford 22:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge into an article discussing command structure in Star Trek. Reliable sources discussing leadership in Star Trek and leadership style exist (here's one), and I suspect that there are also reliable sources which compare, for example, the characters of Dr. McCoy and Dr. Crusher and the dramatic role each fills in the respective series.  (Books like this and this, which discuss the portrayal of doctors in Star Trek and other popular media, may be useful.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:16, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Neither of these articles contains any real-world, out-of-universe information that relates to such topics -- and the modicum of plot summary that such an article would entail can be hammered out by looking at Wikipedia's articles on those notable characters, or raising a flag and asking for help on the wikiproject. I don't particularly see the utility of retaining these articles as "scratcpads" for a yet-to-be-if-ever-created article. --EEMeltonIV 04:05, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge per Josiah. &mdash; Deckiller 13:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete articles like this make Wikipedia out to look like a joke rather than an attempt at a real encyclopedia. Burntsauce 17:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge and redirect per Josiah. Mathmo Talk 01:02, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete No independent, reliable sources and no useful information not present in the articles on the notable characters. Eluchil404 21:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.