Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dilithium (Star Trek) (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   04:47, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Dilithium (Star Trek)
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9 years ago this survived an AfD because, well, Star Trek. 9 years of nobody addressing the refimprove tags, 9 years of this being a fan-written article on a non-notable concept. No significance of this for real life is sourced, and little is alleged. That type of stuff is much better covered at Memory Alpha. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:25, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment Keep, because, well, Star Trek. No, seriously, while I'm not ready to boldly !vote yet The Physics of Star rightly calls it "crucial" and a "centrepiece" of Star Trek warp drive -- and of course major storylines in both TV and film have revolved around dilithium. At the very least, this would need to be a redirect and partial merge, say to Warp drive. But I rather think this is going to be found to be a notable fictional element (no pun intended). Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:04, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

"The dilithium of Star Trek was not merely a molecule with two atoms of lithium, though — it was always described as its own element, and a periodic table seen in one episode listed it as having atomic weight 87 (which would place it between Rubidium and Strontium if its atomic number followed normal convention, but we can probably assume that dilithium is a bit unusual and obeys laws of molecular physics as yet unknown to our primitive science)." Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:13, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I count at least six non-trivial, independent, RS'es covering dilithium in the first page of the 'books' link in the revised Find Sources template. GNG is met, AfD is not for cleanup, WP:SOFIXIT, etc. Jclemens (talk) 04:09, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes and this, from Wired, while, while not about the fictional dilthium has a surprisingly detailed 'graph on what Star Trek dilithium "is", where it was in the table of elements, etc.:
 * Keep this was pretty notable Back in the Day, as per JClemens there should be some sources. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 15:18, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep yes I agree that this is a notable fictional element, based on Gbooks. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per Jclemens as there appears to a sufficient amount of coverage on this subject matter. Aoba47 (talk) 16:44, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


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