Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Starbase

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The result was redirect to Space station#In fiction. (non-admin closure) buidhe 06:08, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This appears to be pure WP:DICDEF, resulting in this article being a dictionary definition and example farm. This page should be deleted and the disambiguation page be moved here. Its Wiktionary entry is sufficient. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:12, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:12, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:12, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Space station as a plausible search term. Ideally that article should have 'in fiction' subsection which is currently missing. Maybe I will create one. Or maybe User:Toughpigs or someone else will. I concur that there is no evidence of this DICTDEF being even so much as discussed in media, I am not seeing the term having a dedicated entry in any encyclopedia of sf or literature. It can exist of wiktionary I guess, but for us it fails at WP:NFICTION/GNG. Do ping me if someone manages to find better sources, but they need to go beyond a plot summary/sf jargon that nobody studied. PS. I created Space_station#In_fiction. Really not seeing any references to expand this much beyond listicle of PLOT examples :( --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• I would not be opposed to the disambiguation page linking to it as one of the possibilities. But there is no need for a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 08:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - As the nom. says, Wiktionary has this and that is all this really needs. The plot elements on this page belong in pages about those fictional works. There is no notability for a page in its own right. A redirect to the wiktionary def. would be fine. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:51, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect and merge a little bit to Space station#In fiction, then add a hatnote in that section to the dab page. Clarityfiend (talk) 18:15, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Space station#In fiction. There is no longer anything to merge to that section, since the lede has already been moved there and everything else on the page is in-universe information that would not be appropriate to add to the Space station page. Needless to say, this article fails GNG, being sourced entirely to primary sources. Devonian Wombat (talk) 22:12, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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