Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Starfleet officers by rank


 * 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 DELETE. -Docg 10:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

List of Starfleet officers by rank

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List with not-very-useful means of sorting: characters' rank. I doubt anyone comes looking for a list of all the Star Trek characters who were ensigns or admirals. Additionally, most of the list is repetition, i.e. the same names showing up under each rank they hold -- seems like some unnecessary redundancy stemming from, again, not-very-useful sorting. Five-month-old prompt for editors to explain list's usefulness has garnered no response. All together, it looks like tabulated trivia with no real-world useful purpose. --EEMeltonIV 06:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, sorting fictional characters by a fictional characteristic isn't conducive to a real-world perspective. The effect is to bury important characters amongst people like Fleet Admiral Morrow. If this list were complete it would presumably contain all the various Ensign Expendables, making it pretty useless for navigation.-- Nydas (Talk) 06:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Memory Alpha, (as per the Afd for List of Star Trek: Enterprise introduction images). Delete. Somebody has waaay too much time on his hands. Clarityfiend 07:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * As was noted in that AFD, Memory Alpha can't take our articles, as their licensing terms are incompatible with ours. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 08:47, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This kind of detail would be fine for Memory Alpha, but they already have such a thing (and they do it better), and moreover they don't have the same license we do. -- Charlene 08:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Drop it in a black hole fancruft Whsitchy 14:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I am particularly interested in list of captains and commanders for example. List of notable non-commission officers is also interesting. Rather than having one list per rank it was merged into this one. It isn't fancruft to suggest Picard and Sisko are of "Captain" rank. Just because memory alpha exist is no reason for us to compromise encyclopedia quality. -- Cat chi? 18:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FICT, if this stuff is important beam it into existing article(s). Carlossuarez46 20:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FICT. My love for Trek ... apparently knows bounds. We may as well have List of Star Trek characters by longevity. Don't numerous characters get promoted during their series? If Captain Kirk is best known as Captain Kirk, why list him as an Admiral? Deciding how to handle that sort of thing is original research. --Dhartung | Talk 05:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * He is presented with each rank he had. Each verifiable rank is listed. -- Cat chi? 18:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.  -- Pax:Vobiscum 18:01, 30 May 2007 (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.