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[edit] Ambiguity & Androids in FIction sections need cleanup
These sections contain several duplicative entries. Jon 18:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- I will try to clean up the Ambiguity section in the next few weeks. Can we agree to limit the lists of fictional androids to 4 or 5 per section? There is a seperate article for that after all, the list of fictional robots. Robotman1974 19:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Bio-Androids
I vote no. -- Macmelvino 02:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I also vote no, in fact I feel more android sections should exist for the variations on the main theme such as nanobot (liquid metal) androids and other vartiations.
- I vote yes. Seeing as how all these android variations are purely fictional, and can only have fictional references, they hardly merit seperate articles. The future existence of Bio-Androids and Nanobots is also far from certain, whereas work is being done already to produce electromechanical androids. I think it will suffice that the other types be mentioned as variations of fictional androids within a single article. Robotman1974 06:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Also vote yes. Even if they exist, bio android are only a variation of androids. And about anonymous comment, nanorobots also would merge, but that doesn't change my opinnion.
—Nethac DIU, would never stop to talk here—
20:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- I also would have to vote yes. Radagast83 15:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I have merged Bio Android into this article. After more than 5 weeks, the votes were 3 merge and 2 don't merge. No convincing arguements were given against the merge. Also, I have removed some entries from the "Androids in fiction" section of this article as they were duplicated in what is now the "Bio androids" section. Robotman1974 19:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone must make a note somewhere that "Robot" in Polish means SLAVE. In the years since RUR was written, the word ROBOT has lost the meaning SLAVE, and now refers to a machine created to do work, and not an artificial man.
[edit] Metropolis
Just curious, but why doesn't Metropolis (film) get a nod in the fiction section? As far as I know, it is the first mention of android (rather, gynoid) in film; it's pretty much where the idea came from.
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[edit] Usage of the term/notion of "Android"
I have the Online Etymological Dictionary referencing but not actually citing a usage of "Android" from 1727. It also translates (I think) that usuage as meaning "automaton resembling a human being." This could be significant to understanding from where this usage much earlier than the one offered in the wiki-article comes. Does anyone know where this usage is citable, and whether it occurs any other time(s) between then and the 1880s? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PhilosophyMonkey (talk • contribs) 18:17, 25 November 2006.
[edit] Lists
The fiction lists in this article need to be cut down or removed entirely IMHO. There are already separate articles for collecting such info, such as List of fictional robots and androids. Robotman1974 17:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'll agree with this, provisionally: let's leave here any androids that can be considered in some way seminal or pivotal, such as Maria, Otho, Data, and the humanoid Cylons.BobGreenwade 18:07, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Androïd was a current word in French in the 18th century. There is for instance an article in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia with the heading Androïd, signed by Diderot himself, that discusses Vaucanson's automatons. Knutel 10:46, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
