Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interstellar (disambiguation)


 * 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   keep. Now cleaned up in response to this AfD and appears to be a useful dab page Black Kite 12:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Interstellar (disambiguation)

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Invalid disambiguation page, per guidline WP:DABNOT. This applies to all entries except Interstellar (film), which again is only a redirect for a not-yet-existing movie. -- Theoprakt (talk) 12:14, 20 March 2010 (UTC) Theoprakt (talk) 12:14, 20 March 2010 (UTC)  Now Neutral with a weak tendency towards delete: it's a close call, but the new version seems to be a valid disambiguation page. However, both main entries are still not articles, but only a redirect respective a very short mentioning of the term in another article. -- Theoprakt (talk) 20:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete since none is a complete match. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 14:37, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Stellar delete The sole reason for this appears to be to call attention to a movie that may or may not come out in 2013, may or may not have that title if it does, but hasn't merited its own article. For now, "interstellar" means only one thing, which is "between two stars".  Mandsford (talk) 18:03, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are several other possible targets: Intastella should be added to the list (and should have an article), the band having had four top-75 singles in the UK in the 1990s, appearing on national TV several times and releasing 2 albums, one on MCA. There's also an album called Intastella by Trevor Loveys, who appears may be sufficiently notable for an article. There is also Intastella Records, the label run by the Goa Trance group Dimension 5. All of these are plausible results for a search on 'Interstellar'. I'm not sure there's a better way of linking to these despite the different spelling.--Michig (talk) 10:32, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 'Interstellar' is also the name of several albums, by artists such as Vitamin String Quartet, The Super-Phonics, Molecule, and there is also Amin Bhatia's Interstellar Suite.--Michig (talk) 10:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Clean up (done) and Keep -- I removed the partial title matches and added in the entries suggested by Michig that had Wikipedia articles to disambiguate. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are only two seemingly acceptable entries, and neither has an article. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:57, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Question for the delete !voters: If this is deleted, how do you propose we deal with the situation where someone types 'Interstellar' looking for, say, the String Quartet album or the band Intastella? One option would be a very messy dab hatnote on the main article, but would that really be better?--Michig (talk) 20:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * My answer is that #1 would be caught by the text search, and #2 does not require any dealing, because "intastella" is not "interstellar". -- Theoprakt (talk) 06:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * But disambiguation should be there to help someone searching for the band but typing 'interstellar'.--Michig (talk) 06:37, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. A disambiguation is a precising definition that extends the lexical definition of a certain word. A word with another spelling is another word, and it is not the job of an encyclopedia to help people get their spelling right. That's what a dictionary does, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- Theoprakt (talk) 11:26, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The purpose of disambiguation pages and hatnotes is to help the reader find the article that they are looking for. Simple as that. That's why we need a disambiguation page.--Michig (talk) 11:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:DAB sums this up nicely: "Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might use the "Go button", there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead."--Michig (talk) 12:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep some of the partial title matches are actually, complete title matches, since "interstellar" can mean "interstellar medium" and "interstellar space". They should not be in the see also, they should be in the regular section. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 05:06, 27 March 2
 * "interstellar" does not mean "interstellar medium". "interstellar" means "between the stars", period. It does not mean "interstellar medium" or "intersteller space", just like "cheesse" does not mean "cheese grater" and "bull" does not mean "bulldozer". -- Theoprakt (talk) 06:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.