Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evacuate Earth


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:08, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Evacuate Earth

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Deprodded because of NYT review, but I could find literally nothing else. Tagged for notability since 2016. Prod contested Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)


 * This is one episode of a TV Series. I don't normally participate in discussions like this, but I have to ask this. If one episode of a series is noted as unimportant, subjecting the article page to face deletion, then all episodes of that series should get the same treatment. Everything is "notable" to someone. My understanding when Wikipedia was launched is that the content of the pages and the creation of the pages would be up to whoever cared about those pages. Now we're just deciding that all of the work done is unimportant. Which discourages anyone from making any change on this site. I no longer care if the pages that I've worked on over the last 20 years are deleted on Wikipedia. I've given up on trying. Do what you will. Chadlupkes (talk) 21:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

So not much, although the NYT piece is rock solid, so could this add up, did anyone else find more sources? CT55555 (talk) 22:26, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment. In addition to the NYT in depth coverage I also found:
 * 1) http://www.ravinglunaticmedia.com/scifimalady/2019/9/8/symptom-124-evacuate-earth-apocalypse-soon (seems significant, I didn't listen to all 50 minutes, it's an online podcast....suitable for documentary review? It does suggest notability..
 * 2) http://philosophyswalk.blogspot.com/2013/04/documentary-review-evacuate-earth-2012.html (significant coverage, it's a blog, by a teacher....reliable, I assume not.
 * 3) https://screenrant.com/forgotten-canceled-nat-geo-shows/ (trivial mention)
 * 4) https://documentaryheaven.com/evacuate-earth/ (trivial mention)


 * Keep Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia) 05 Dec 2012, Wed Page D2.  That and the New York Times article, equals significant coverage in multiple reliable sources.   D r e a m Focus  23:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's a press release. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:37, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Why do you think that?  D r e a m Focus  23:49, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Because 1.) it's attributed to "New York Times News Service", and 2.) it's next to the TV Guide. TV Guide used to run press release blurbs adjacent to the listings like that all the time Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:51, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It reads like a review not a press release.  D r e a m Focus  23:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It's at best a lighthearted overview of several upcoming television shows with a common theme. I would not consider it "significant coverage" for Evacuate Earth. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:24, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science fiction and fantasy and Science. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 04:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. (I commented above also) Due to this source I found, plus the existing NYT coverage.
 * 1) Viewing to fuel your anxieties. (2014, Feb 25). The Press Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/viewing-fuel-your-anxieties/docview/1501427197/ CT55555 (talk) 22:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The review provides 499 words of coverage about the subject. The review notes: "New series Evacuate Earth (Tuesdays, 8.30pm, National Geographic) looks at possible apocalyptic scenarios. Tonight's episode, Micro Monsters, focuses on the risks associated with nano technology. If last week's episode, Zombie Apocalypse, was anything to go by expect lots of over-dramatised scenes of terrified crowds, fake news coverage and doomladen background music. Hyperbole is the key word here and I was prepared for some implausible nonsense. But actually the whole premise drew me in more than I thought it would. ... There were plenty of talking heads thrown in to lend some credibility. But they too had bought into the drama with one of them describing "rabid people overflowing into the streets". .... There are plenty of cool graphics, some history in cartoon form and stacks of amazing facts. It's all pulled together by suave presenter and astrophysicist Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson. Super stuff."  The article notes: "The lineup will include three new programs: “Evacuate Earth” (Sunday night) ... That puts “Evacuate Earth” on the firmest ground (so to speak). It posits a possible, if unlikely, event — a collapsed star’s passing through our solar system, tearing apart the planets one by one — and then physicists, astronomers and other scientists outline how we might respond in the decades we would have between first warning and final moments. It’s essentially science fiction, cheap and cheesy, with lots of stock scenes of explosions, fires and chaotic crowds, but it’s consistently interesting. A 15-mile-long spaceship carrying 250,000 people is proposed, propelled by nuclear bombs exploding behind a huge plate covering the back of the ship. (An antimatter drive is considered and rejected; in one of the show’s satisfyingly pulpy moments, a private spaceship full of billionaires explodes on the launching pad when its antimatter seal leaks.) ... At times, though, “Evacuate Earth” shows some restraint. A discussion of the search for a hospitable new planet mentions that the presence of life there will be important, without going on to say, “so we can eat it.”" <li> The article notes: "Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will be featured in a special television show called "Evacuate Earth" on the National Geographic Channel. ... The two-hour special explores the possibility of building spacecraft to fly humans to "new and habitable words" if Earth "faced a countdown to destruction," according to National Geographic."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Evacuate Earth to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 10:07, 22 May 2022 (UTC) </li></ul>


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