Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marsification


 * 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.

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Marsification

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The page is primarily definitional (noting WP:NOTDICT) for a neologism. The original intended meaning is published by a source that isn't reliable; reliable sources (BBC and New Scientist) have then used the term in a different sense. So, there is no coherent topic, and no clear merge destination. Klbrain (talk) 22:30, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator: new references found establish notability of the topic. Klbrain (talk) 10:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spaceflight-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  00:01, 7 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I’d love to hear more from the editor who flagged this for deletion. They say that there is some dissonance between the original source and the independent media coverage. I’m confused by that interpretation because it seems clear that these two credible news sources – the BBC and New Scientist are not using the term in a different way. They are reporting on the neologism and marking it as a significant new word which seems to justify its inclusion in Wikipedia. Additional references and citations were added to improve the page, and to further clarify the coherence of the topic. Cavalucciomarino (talk) 06:28, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Happy to. It looks like that page has been signficiantly improved by you since I placed the tags. In the version at that time it's described as a that word arose from as an ourput of the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, whose primary definition on the page is "various cultural, political and economic processes through which techno-utopian fantasies divert our attention from the dominant global economic system's erosion of the life-support systems of Earth". They include other definitions, or potential meanings. The BBC article says that "which describes the expansion of colonial ideas to other planets". So, while the primary definitions relates to environmental issues on earth, the BBC article sees it as having a focus on colonial expansion. It still seems to be a campaigning piece rather than a work, but that's fine content too. Happy to change my view on this one. Klbrain (talk) 10:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


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