Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K\'Vort class starship

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 delete. Joyous 03:48, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

K\'Vort class starship
I'll abstain, because I'm not sure what Wikipedia's guidelines are on this one. But: is an entry for a fictional Klingon vessel encyclopedic, or is it excessive, non-notable Trek-cruft? (Note: there is a typo in the article's title). --Plek 13:51, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. I dare to face the wrath of a thousand trekkies. (AM- I think Wikipedia policy will allow such an article)--ZayZayEM 14:48, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's already a complete, wikified article at the correctly-spelled K'Vort class starship.  This new article appears to be a copy-paste from a mirror of the original; the opening material seems identical.  --TenOfAllTrades 15:37, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as a duplicate. There are plenty of Wikipedia articles on Trek ships and ship classes, so I don't object to the subject matter. (However, is the K'Vort class information canon? I know there's a few episode references to maybe it is. I'm not up on my Klingon ships.) 23skidoo 15:57, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Oh, we definitely want our articles about Klingon starships to have titles that are correctly spelled.    And they had better be canonical starships; we wouldn't want an article about a Klingon starship class that someone had, you know, just made up or something. --BM 20:22, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It seems like it should even be a speedy delete; it's a simple copy and paste from the real K'Vort class starship article but all the text formatting has been lost.  I think articles on Star Trek ships are great, and the K'Vort is canon, but this is just a duplicate of the real article. TomTheHand 00:10, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Well, it's spelled wrong. Even the Trekkies can't whinge about this one. Average Earthman 00:46, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to K'Vort class starship. It appears to be a title spelling mistake. Megan1967 03:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this article as duplicate. As for the spirit of this nomination, I get the impression that Plek would nominate the real version of this article for deletion as well.  I'm not entirely sure if it's all encyclopedic, but I would give the entire series of science-fictional ship classes (see Starship class) a weak keep.  --Plutor 17:10, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't necessarily mean to ditch the entire series or genre, but I think it's a valid question to ask whether a fictional universe needs to be described in so much detail on Wikipedia. There isn't anything yet in Votes for deletion/Precedents that provides an answer, so maybe it's time for a precedent. I do wonder if we're not wasting time and energy on a duplicate effort, when there's an excellent and IMO superior Trek Wiki available at Memory Alpha. For instance, compare "our" Sovereign class starship to "theirs", or "our" Intrepid class starship to "theirs". Maybe some creative use of inter-Wiki linking will lead to a better end result than trying to come up with all the material independently. Just my 0.02. --Plek 20:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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