Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gateway Station (Aliens)


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:57, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Gateway Station (Aliens)

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Fails WP:GNG. An editor has suggested that it be merged into the movie article. I would have redirected it, but the movie article doesn't even mention the station. I don't care much, but it doesn't seem to me that it's even sufficiently notable to merge as there would have to be some reliable sources attesting to its notability besides the synopsis at IMDb. Bbb23 (talk) 15:42, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment As one who has heard of Alien(s), but has never seen any of it/them, my opinion is that this isn't worth redirecting or being a stand-alone article. It's a place where someone lives, so far as I can tell. It's not an essential part, unlike the planetoid or the ships. The editors of the technical section don't seem to have considered it important from the crafting point of view, and the editors of the story line here seem to have missed it out, while I noticed one mention at IMDb. I could have missed things. There would need to be more than IMDb as reference anyway. Peridon (talk) 17:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - no independent notability attached to the concept. No need for a merge or a redirect since there is no content to merge and the redirect is highly improbable. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 20:09, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:51, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete Gateway station has a fairly minor role in the film as far as the plot was concerned. It is the place where Ellen Ripley was in hospital, and where she lived and worked before embarking on the Sulaco to go on a bug hunt. As a fictional space station it is very unremarkable (my opinion), and is unlikely to get much third party comment about it.Martin 4 5 1  12:21, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It was featured in the video games and the books according to the fan wikia. I find no coverage of it in any independent reliable sources though.  Best to just have it on the fan wikia.   D r e a m Focus  19:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
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