Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universal Century


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The result was   keep. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 17:21, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Universal Century

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This particular event has no reliable third-party sources to WP:verify notability. Moreover huge portions of this article are ripped word for word from this self-published promotional source from the creator. Even if that were fixed, there's nothing to deal with the fact that there's no independent sourcing to establish notability, or provide any WP:NOT information about the timeline directly. Shooterwalker (talk) 06:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * keep The 1st source is already 3rd party, your reason is incorrectly stated from the very start. Also, even the technology itself got enough notable 3rd party sources about the technology that influenced the real world robotics, and there is actually a 3rd party source book published in Japan that analysis Universal Century economy and politics.  You can say it is not 3rd party all you want, but the publisher got nothing to do with the original company.  It is a publisher that publishes a lot of different educational, knowledge based books.  —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk  12:18, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:06, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep sufficiently notable and organizes an awful lot of real world info alongside the fiction, Sadads (talk) 03:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I really want to challenge the nom reasoning of huge portion ripped word for word. The current article only has in its last small section very little info on the major events of the series (which got their own anime) and some real life events with a little fictional events not listed in the promotional source listed above.  I highly doubt the nom ever read the article at all.  —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk  13:31, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is a regurgitation of Articles for deletion/Cosmic Era, even though the two articles don't share any similarities with each other. Universal Century covers the setting of the UC Gundam series while the Cosmic Era nomination was entirely a timeline. —Farix (t &#124; c) 17:59, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I see a great deal of potential with this article. The UC Gundam time line is a huge franchise spanning three television series, seven original video animations and films, and 10 novel series. It need a lot of cleanup so that it can do a better job at detailing the influences on the UC timeline, such as the use of O'Neill cylinders. But the simple fact remains is that it needs to be more than plot details and a list of media. —Farix (t &#124; c) 17:59, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have some trouble in doing so. The location part was copied and pasted from the now deleted UC location page, that can be trimmed or maybe removed as a whole(I know it is kinda verifiable in primary sources and some even in secondary sources, but would be extremely hard to do so).  Also, The list of media would be dominantly occupying the page no matter how we do it.  For the real life part, I can add in short statements about its comparison with modern warfare, history, politics, economy, technology(separate secondary sources) and maybe some sources stating it is the most dominating sub-franchise within the Gundam franchise, but that will need to wait until some time after 20th Dec.  —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk  04:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. CSE hits. I will note in passing that at least one reviewer describes the UC continuity as 'classic'. --Gwern (contribs) 22:04 16 December 2010 (GMT)
 * Additional sources academic paper with 宇宙世紀, original word for Universal Century. Google scholar search results in more than one citation and source with the term Universal Century. Also a nice joke in the Caltech news.  —Preceding signed comment added by MythSearchertalk  01:20, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


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