Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C'tan

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was Keep 8 / Delete 1 / Merge and redirect 2: Keep. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] C'tan

This is details of an old role playing game. Wikipedia is not a fan site. The same goes for all the articles in Category:Warhammer 40,000 species. --151.204.6.44 02:46, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect to Necron. I don't see too much problem with the playable races, but I don't think each piece of Warhammer 40000's, expansive, background merits its own article. --Rje 03:26, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect as suggested by Rje. Fan material of this nature is notable enough, but probably not enough to warrant its own article. --Deathphoenix 05:38, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keeep. Eventually yes, each piece of any fictional universe will have its place on Wikipedia. Sure, creating few words stubs for fictonal minor things is rather pointless, but this article is longer then a stub. Basically, if an article about fictional thing is a stub, then merge it. If not, keep it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:50, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge. Unless cultural significance beyond this game can be shown, this is non-notable on its own. Martg76 00:25, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 01:07, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, article provides important information, why delete it? --Jonus 13:54, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as long as its identified as fictional, what's the problem?--Dzimmer6 22:06, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• please keep this. Yuckfoo 01:03, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Warhammer 40,000 is neither old nor a roleplaying game. -- Necrothesp 04:15, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, plenty of other parts of fiction settings (including characters/places/animals/races from Games, Books, Comics, Movies, Mythology) are included in Wikipedia as long as style is kept encylopedic and article is identified as belonging to a particular fictional setting. I think it's great you can look up all sorts of info about different fictional settings. --Waza 00:33, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I don't understand what the person who reccomended this for deletion was talking about. C'tan plays an important part in certain aspects of the game, and it is not outdated.
• Delete. Obviously this is going to be kept. However, this is far too low level a detail from a fictional universe -- one that is not even all that popular -- to merit a separate article in a general encyclopedia. It wouldn't even make it into an Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. --BM 14:11, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\^talk 17:18, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Although merger with the Necron page might be a good compromise The IP 04:13, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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