Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airships in culture

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The result was delete. Sr13 08:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Airships in culture

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Trivia laundry-list (don't let the lack of bullet points fool you), with nary a reference to be seen. --Eyrian 14:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete This seems to be documentation of every time a blimp comes on TV/video game/movie Corpx 15:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Comment: This part is okay but needs sources: "Airships were a popular theme in scientific romance (prototypical science fiction) and adventure fiction published in the late 19th century and the earliest years of the 20th century. The theme of aeronautical exploration was most famously explored in this period by Jules Verne (The Clipper of the Clouds) and H. G. Wells (The War in the Air)." The first civil flight was two years prior to the Verne novel. I don't know about the rest. Canuckle 16:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as trivia collection. If some cultural impact is to be demonstrated, this can be done in prose, with references and in the main article. Bullet lists of simple trivia, on the other hand, has no place here. Punkmorten 00:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Collection of loosely associated topics, fails WP:NOT#DIR. Jay32183 22:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak delete Not that the ideas are bad, but this article is so inclusive, and runs off on so many tangents, it's a mess. Thus, we have movies featuring the Goodyear blimp (such as Black Sunday), movies about the Hindenburg disaster, films from the pre-Hindenburg days when airships were common, Rudyard Kipling's science fiction writings about the Airship Board of Control, and alternate history yarns, and Lord knows what else. Some of the information from this article could usefully be incorporated into other articles. This one, no matter how well researched, is a true example of the "collection of indiscriminate information". The author does make a good point about the airship as a cliche' in alternate history literature. For whatever reason, writers presuppose that if the South had won the Civil War, or if the British won the Revolutionary War, or if the Spanish Armada hadn't been sunk... that the Wright Brothers would never have invented the airplane. As I say, some useful material in the trivia weeds. Save it to the hard drive. Mandsford 14:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per Jay32183 --Russavia 07:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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