Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three-stage-to-orbit


 * 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 keep. Tone 18:10, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Three-stage-to-orbit

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This article is nothing but WP:DICDEF. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 13:42, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 13:42, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 13:42, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep or merge As shown in 'see also', there are related articles Single-stage-to-orbit and Two-stage-to-orbit. These are not without their own issues but they have seemingly useful content, and it would be strange to delete this one while leaving the others. Should the three articles be merged into a single article called Rocket Stages or such-like? asnac (talk) 14:08, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep This is nothing like a dictionary definition. WP:DICDEF explains the difference and the nomination misrepresents this.  It's the usual "perennial source of confusion is that a stub encyclopedia article looks very much like a dictionary entry, and stubs are often poorly written".  The actual policies which apply here include WP:ATD and WP:IMPERFECT. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:00, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete There is nothing particularly notable about three stages. Or four stages, or two stages for that matter. The relevant concept is that of a multistage rocket, and there is already a decent article about it. Perhaps a list of three-stage rockets would instead be meaningful? Note that this reasoning doesn't apply to single-stage-to-orbit. That's a different concept, not covered in multistage rocket, and quite notable on its own. One can see that by the much better state of the article. Tercer (talk) 14:00, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment This article might be better if it were titled something like List of three-stage rockets. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 22:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment This article does not seem like a dictionary entry to me. I don't see that being a reason for deletion if more sources could be added to the page.★Trekker (talk) 17:22, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   17:39, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - The WP:DICTDEF argument definitly does not fly here. If someone wants to propose another WP:DEL-REASON, I'd be happy to consider it. ~Kvng (talk) 15:42, 27 September 2020 (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.