Category talk:Doctor Who planets
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[edit] CFD Discussion
- This category was listed for deletion on April 5, 2005. Consensus was to Keep. The following discussion is now closed and should not be modified.
Small and little potential for growth as very few planets have enough return visits to be notable in the Doctor Who series. To merge with Category:Doctor Who places. -khaosworks 20:00, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Considering what shows up in Category:Star Trek planets and Category:Star Wars planets, etc, I can't see why there shouldn't be a Doctor Who planets. 132.205.45.110 20:08, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- merge as the Doctor's adventures tend to be predominantly Earth-bound with very few planets visited more than once. The category only has 3 (borderline) entries... The effort expended writing an article about a planet would be better spent on an article describing the serial in which the planet appears, which can contain all of the same information. --TimPope 16:58, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. It is useful in organizing Category:Fictional planets, and though there are only three members now, with a 25-year run I think there is probably room for a few more.--Pharos 06:31, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- The difficulty is that aside from a entry on Earth, there are no other planets that are notable enough that we will get anything more than stub articles. There are no other planets that are fleshed out enough in the series to warrant a separate article. If you can suggest "a few more" I'd like to hear it. --khaosworks 15:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Untrue. Mondas has enough information around to make good article (expansion needed). Even though you've redirected it to Cybermen for no reason. And as with Star Trek or Star Wars, alot of planets get created with small articles. You need not place "planetary information" into the Doctor Who serials articles, as those should be more for the story and less about planetary characteristics. Sontara information can be gleened from the novels and various serials. And some serials have several notable planets in them. The Key to Time multi-serial story for instance. (Note: Romulan, Reman, Romulus and Remus (Star Trek), Romulan Star Empire ; for stuff that Star Trek can produce on significant though not much seen planets ) 132.205.45.148 18:00, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)]]
- Then we're getting into problems of canon and what is not - so far we've been very careful (for the most part) to distinguish between what is in the television series and what is in the spin-off media. There is simply not enough information to warrant separate articles. If there is for Mondas, please write it up, because aside from what is in the television series and perhaps Spare Parts or completely made-up bits from the David Banks book (again, canonicity disputed), we have nothing. The planetary articles you cite from Star Trek are all stubs or one to three paragraph articles. I see no need to populate the Doctor Who pages with stubs that will probably never be expanded. --khaosworks 18:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- In any case, it keeps Doctor Who planets out of Ficitonal planets to keep the size of Fictional planets smaller. As you seem to be the final arbiter of Dr. Who articles, might want to start a WikiProject so that other people understand your rules. 132.205.45.148 18:20, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- COMMENT Considering what a retcon the totality of Dr. Who is, is there ever any accurate information? What does this new series of Doctor Who provide? I understnad that the Cybermen make an appearance, along with the Daleks. 132.205.45.148 19:04, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- The Cybermen do not appear. The Daleks do. This is off-topic, though. --khaosworks 19:07, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Then we're getting into problems of canon and what is not - so far we've been very careful (for the most part) to distinguish between what is in the television series and what is in the spin-off media. There is simply not enough information to warrant separate articles. If there is for Mondas, please write it up, because aside from what is in the television series and perhaps Spare Parts or completely made-up bits from the David Banks book (again, canonicity disputed), we have nothing. The planetary articles you cite from Star Trek are all stubs or one to three paragraph articles. I see no need to populate the Doctor Who pages with stubs that will probably never be expanded. --khaosworks 18:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Untrue. Mondas has enough information around to make good article (expansion needed). Even though you've redirected it to Cybermen for no reason. And as with Star Trek or Star Wars, alot of planets get created with small articles. You need not place "planetary information" into the Doctor Who serials articles, as those should be more for the story and less about planetary characteristics. Sontara information can be gleened from the novels and various serials. And some serials have several notable planets in them. The Key to Time multi-serial story for instance. (Note: Romulan, Reman, Romulus and Remus (Star Trek), Romulan Star Empire ; for stuff that Star Trek can produce on significant though not much seen planets ) 132.205.45.148 18:00, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)]]
- The difficulty is that aside from a entry on Earth, there are no other planets that are notable enough that we will get anything more than stub articles. There are no other planets that are fleshed out enough in the series to warrant a separate article. If you can suggest "a few more" I'd like to hear it. --khaosworks 15:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Category:Fictional planets can use the subcategorization more than Doctor Who places, IMO. Bryan 00:10, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. It is useful in the fictional planets category and besides with the new series running on BBC and the possibility of a second series after that who knows, there may be many more planets to add. -- Lochaber 15:50, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
