Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Datalore (TNG episode)

Datalore (TNG episode)
Datalore (TNG episode) was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. 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 keep.

Please read this before voting.

This page has no potential to become encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. Wikipedia articles are neither encomia/fan pages, nor critical pans.

The page in question is about the twelvth episode of the television show Star Trek, The Next Generation. It is not a biography about an art work, but a mere synopsis of a Star Trek episode, and it has little potential to become encyclopedic because it was not a notable work on its own, and did not affect society in any observable way.

There is a Star Trek Wiki at http://www.memory-alpha.org, where articles like this would be appropriate. --NoPetrol 05:50, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep. Not a stub. Notable episode as it's the first appearance of Data's "brother", Lore. Gamaliel 06:38, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, because this article would fit in Sci-Fi encyclopedia and there's no reason why Wikipedia can't be all sorts of different types of encyclopedias instead of just a general reference. Listing all these pages at once for the same reason wastes our time, you should have listed only one and then listed others if people agreed with you. DreamGuy 08:32, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Xezbeth  09:48, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. See other episodes' votes for my reasons. P Ingerson 12:28, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sixthfully, I say: get me consensus on what Wikipedia is supposed to be. Bring me a vote, bring me precedents, bring me a big meeting where we all sort out once and for all why this article and others like it should definitely not be a part of our encyclopedia. Back this up with objective reasoning. Start from axioms I can accept. Then and only then will I have a reason to vote Delete. JRM 17:29, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
 * Hmm, tricky one. I'm going to have to vote Merge and Redirect into Star Trek The Next Generation Episodes. --fvw *  19:50, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
 * Keep, personal POV over whether one would like this information to be in a small encyclopædia is irrelevant; this listing does not seem to have been made on grounds in line with policy. James F. (talk) 02:19, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. The web is not lacking in Star Trek episode guides. -- Walt Pohl 06:39, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge this and all other season TNG episodes in its season into a single season guide. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:36, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep unless there is a specific Wikipedia policy against doing so. There are other articles devoted to individual episodes of other Trek series such as Enterprise, as well as individual books in a series (see James Bond). If Wikipedia's admin wants to cast a blanket rule, that's their perogative. (Cutting and pasting for all TNG episode-related VfD, apologies for duplication) 23skidoo 04:05, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Dbenbenn 18:40, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Michael L. Kaufman 04:46, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Holodoctor1 11:36, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Other people who found this page before myself have provided excellent reasons for why this article should not be deleted. I would like to add that I hope this type of request for widespread deletion will be restricted in the future. Apparently, many people (with nice writing skills) thought that Wikipedia needed such articles and decided to create them, and for one person to come along and propose to delete them all is a little _______ (OK, it's a lot ________ :), in my opinion! KJen74 00:19, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.