Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of military vehicles in films


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The result was delete. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 19:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

List of military vehicles in films
List of potentially unlimited size that would include everything from ancient chariots and war galleys in Ben-Hur to the Space shuttles in Moonraker. Delete as per Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information -- Allen3 talk 23:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

How come this article is recommended for deletion when articles such as List of firearms in films and List of firearms in video games are allowed to go unchallenged? As for the 'Moonraker shuttles', the description of this article clearly discourages fictional military vehicles and civilian vehicles reconfigured for military use, and is also centered around motorized ground vehicles, not spacecraft. If the description is amended to show 'modern' vehicles (ie those with an internal combustion engine), would that be acceptable? Orca1 9904 00:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Orca1_9904
 * I suspect many people would delete those articles as well. FrozenPurpleCube 00:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing out the oversight. Appropriate AfDs have been added. --Allen3 talk 01:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete with the caveat that if the article were restricted to vehicles that had a prominient role in the film, or some particular character, it would work. Examples would be Black Hawk Down and the Tank from well, Tank FrozenPurpleCube 01:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom listcruft Bwithh 02:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per my argument in Articles for deletion/List of firearms in films —Mitaphane talk 03:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing wrong with 'list of ___ in films/video games'-type pages, unless the list items are so commonly found as to be unmaintanable. I bet at least half of the major Hollywood movies that came out in the last year contain military vehicles of some sort, and i bet in 90% of those the specific vehicle models were totally irrelevant to the story. Like someone else said, if lists of 'military vehicles' and 'firearms' are allowed, what's to say 'list of kitchen utensils in films' isn't appropriate? Where is the line drawn? If it's at all significant, it can be added to the film artcile's summary or possibly to the trivia/references section of the vehicle's article. I appreciate the work that must've been put into this list though. ~ Lav-chan 08:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Actually, articles along the lines of List of spacecraft in films or List of fictional spacecraft in films would be good articles.  Presumably these lists would be smaller and more manageable.  --Richard 06:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think a non-list article Military vehicles in films would be more valuable. Prose comparing the phyical characteristics of the tanks etc. used; why certain vehicles are used more often, in different time periods or situations; how some vehicles are disguised as others; and the ease/difficulty of getting qualified people to operate them in films (cited, of course). Good examples could then be given, and it'd be useful for military vehicle and film enthusiasts as well as interested laypeople, because they'd be able to easily identify the differences for themselves in other films (and on the news), and there'd be text describing other aspects of using such equipment in films. TransUtopian 23:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Pavel Vozenilek 16:27, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


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