Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional planets by medium


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 16:50, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

List of fictional planets by medium

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Planets in science fiction exists, which has a redirect from "List of fictional planets." I don't know if the state of that other article should remain as-is, but its presence makes this redundant. TTN (talk) 15:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 15:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 15:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:03, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Notwithstanding what we should do with various fictional planet lists, or the planets in science fiction primary article, this list is pretty ill-conceived. For one thing, open-ended lists like this are rarely a good idea because they're maintenance nightmares that can't be complete and lead to either acrimonious arguments on inclusion criteria or else just fantastic amounts of bloat. But more concerning here is that we don't categorize content by medium like this. How could we? Doctor Who is a TV franchise first, I suppose, but also sports a series of books and radio programs. Warcraft? A video game, but also a movie (as much as I guess Blizzard would prefer we overlooked it...). And so forth. This thing dates back to 2006, and the project had very different ideas about lists and list inclusion then. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 16:14, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per Squeamish. This looks like a maintenance nightmare. --M asem (t) 16:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per Squeamish. Aoba47 (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. "Just because it exists doesn't mean it's notable".ZXCVBNM (TALK) 20:07, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete List is superfluous.TH1980 (talk) 04:01, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete This article doesn't provide much information therefore not notable. Barca (talk) 16:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Per the arguments advanced above, as well as various other WP:WWIN principles regarding content built upon unwieldy cross-categorizations. Snow let's rap 18:48, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


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