Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minor Discworld concepts


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The result was keep. W.marsh 14:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Minor Discworld concepts

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These concepts lack real world notability and are not cited in reliable secondary sources (WP:FICT). Additionally, they lack a real world context and are solely a plot summary (WP:NOT#PLOT). Pilotbob 05:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Anynobody 07:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless outside sources are found. If such sources are found for a concept, merge that particular concept back to Discworld. Fee Fi Foe Fum 07:47, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Much as I like Discworld I can't see the justification for keeping this page. If someone was to host it off Wiki and then link to it from the main page that would be better.Alberon 10:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Discworld. While this is an interesting collection of things, a lot of it is not notable. Some parts, though, could be merged into other articles, so we should probably keep the history around in a redirect. Pinball22 14:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Discworld per Pinball22. The information in this article should be merged into different articles IMO, eg, Battle of Koom Valley to Thud!, Dark light to The Truth, Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang to Going Postal. Bláthnaid 20:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Abstain I would like to switch my vote to abstain at this time due to this investigation WP:ANI. Pilotbob —Preceding comment was added at 07:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Changing to keep and prune. After doing some searching, I've found that some of the items in this article have real-world significance. The term "octarine" appears to be used in chaos magic and has been adopted by the occultist Peter J. Carroll  . "Boffo" is explained in a review. Information about  "figgin" in the introduction to Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature . I've come across journal articles on Google Scholar that reference Discworld concepts. I don't have access to them, but they do suggest that some of the concepts are notable and verifiable -- "octarine"  "quantum"    "thaum"  Bláthnaid 12:34, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and prune. Full disclosure: I'm a big Discworld fan. The case for notability outside the context of Discworld has been made for several items on the list; furthermore, in a practical sense, Discworld books tend to use several in-universe concepts multiple times, by name, and it's easier to have them all here than have to explain, say, octarine in every single article where it's mentioned. That said, this should be limited to things which actually recur; "figgin" and "boffo" aren't there yet. --Stlemur 13:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and prune and add real world information and references, since Bláthnaid has shown that many of these concepts indeed are notable. 96T 14:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, and I agree it needs some tidying. Salmanazar 20:30, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Bláthnaid has done a good job of showing and sourcing notability. Edward321 03:39, 14 November 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.