Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of extraterrestrial life in Alien Planet


 * 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. Jayjg (talk) 03:30, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

List of extraterrestrial life in Alien Planet

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Unnotable list of fictional extraterrestrial species from a single Discovery series special. Fails WP:N and WP:WAF. Even the main article is unreferenced and shows no notability. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 21:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. — --  Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 21:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Support—The article is filled with original research: the only reference that I know of is the television episode, and I suspect some of the accounts here are "tainted" by reference to the Barlowe book on which the show was based. (Disclaimer: I was one of the scientists featured on the show.)--Curtis Clark (talk) 22:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - Lacks citations to third-party sources; no claim of real-world notability. --EEMIV (talk) 23:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment seems to be a bit extensive for a catalog of content in one 94-minute television show. Suggest that the content be trimmed and merged into the main article. Jclemens (talk) 00:04, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete due to article consisting of only detail from the primary source, the TV special itself. Dreamt-up (fictional) topics need real-world context.  This does not have it. Erik (talk) 00:04, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * merge, since its just a single show, and doesn't need elaborate treatment. The delete nomination implies that none of the information should be kept, and I see no justification for saying that, as it does meet WP:V,   sourced for the work itself is appropriate and sufficient to meet WP:V.    DGG ( talk ) 02:13, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * There is no information to be kept. The main article already has the show description. Nothing else is needed. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 02:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep The show is notable because of the extraterrestrial life on it, then you can't have a complete article without mentioning it. Its fine to put it here, in a side article, it not fitting too well in the main one.   D r e a m Focus  03:44, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Excessive amounts of plot information for a 1.5h show, Alien Planet already does the job just fine (in length). – sgeureka t•c 09:54, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Alien planet; the show clearly meets the requirement for notability, but this might be excessive for a single documentary show. I'm sure this much detail isn't needed.Teeninvestor (talk) 18:38, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete. if this content is taken from the book by barlowe, its copyvio. if its not, its original research. nuff said. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * AFAIK there is no verbatim copying from Expedition. On the other hand, I think some of the critters were fleshed out with information from the book, since the TV show wasn't all that specific. But I could be wrong; it could be OR instead.--Curtis Clark (talk) 00:29, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * good points. i think what i meant to say is that since the book is essentially a fictional account of a survey of this planet, any significantly detailed descriptions of these fictional life forms is duplicating the very substance and point of the book. why would you need to purchase the book if the descriptions here are fairly accurate. combine that with scanned images from teh book that surely can be found on the internet, and we have a defacto copyright violation with us as a conduit for it. if this was a novel with alien descriptions as secondary to the plot, i could see brief descriptions being ok here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:07, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
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