Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colonial Viper


 * 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. With the caveat that undeletion and subsequent redirecting can be asked for at WP:REFUND if people need the content for a broader list article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Colonial Viper

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Seems to fail WP:GNG/WP:NFICTION. Minor coverage of a single incident involving toy recalls. There are mentions in passing out there on the web, mostly toy ads or niche reviews on blogs etc. In the books it's not much better. An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica mentions it eight times, but all are in passing, 6 times while recalling various plots (episode stories), one sentence that there were toys, and another one about the design change in comic books. Similar mentions in passing occur in So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica  - four mentions, nothing substantial. Nothing else I saw had more than 1-2 similar mentions. Scholarly sources are even worse, 2-3 mentions at best like from "USAF pilots disliked the official name and instead called the F-16 the “Viper,” apparently because it recalled “Colonial Viper,” the name of a fighter spacecraft on the 1978 TV show Battlestar Galactica." Sorry, but this is not enough to show significance in the real world, a few trivial facts spread around a bunch of sources does not constitute 'significant coverage' as requested by GNG. But fret not, all this old fancruft can safely exist at https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Viper - feel free to transwikify (copy) anything that's not already there. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:55, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  01:55, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete/Merge/redirect The Air Force thing, as well as the Battlestar Galactica spacecraft surviving AfD, makes me feel like there is at least enough notability to justify an entry in a hypothetical list, like List of Battlestar Galactica spacecraft. I think perhaps such a list should be created, and this merged into it. Otherwise, I am also fine with deletion.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 12:52, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I think that such a list would be ok. If anyone wants to create it? Perhaps the BG fans from the Article Rescue Squadron? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:29, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect - Insufficient sourcing to pass GNG. TTN (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


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