Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galactic Alliance

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. None of the people wanting to keep this have provided any compelling evidence of its real world notability. While, once a fictional topic is shown to be notable, the article may contain information straight from the primary sources, articles should not contain only (or even mainly) information from primary sources. I have looked at the news sources linked by LtNOWIS, and as far as I can tell, they only mention the Alliance in passing. Fram (talk) 12:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Galactic Alliance

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Contested PROD, taking to AFD per discussion at User talk:SchuminWeb. Original PROD reason was, "Are there any citations to reliable sources to establish real-world notability?" SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete - Unreferenced original research. No evidence or even claim of real-world notability (no, it's not inherited from being in the EU). --EEMIV (talk) 02:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete -per EEMIV. --Gman124 talk 04:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - Unreferenced OR, no assertion of notability. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep a major element in a major fiction, running through several parts of the work. . I'm skeptical about these in general, and have !voted to delete and to redirect and so forth, but this one is sufficiently important. The sourcing is directly from the fiction, as permitted for fictions. The discussion of it will be in almost any of the published sources on the general subject. DGG (talk) 03:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. The main faction in 20 or so major, notable novels, as shown in various news sources. (Many of those links are not valid, but some are.) -LtNOWIS (talk) 09:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 16:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete as wholly unreferenced w/no evidence of meeting notability. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 16:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - as a major component in a number of works, this is something that we should cover. The form of coverage is not a deletion issue, and nuking this article and telling the local experts to write said coverage from scratch and do it better this time has elsewhere been extensively demonstrated to be a non-viable option. --Kizor 20:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Extremely doubtful that reliable secondary sources have devoted significant coverage to this specific aspect of the fictional universe. Article is entirely plot summary as well with no real-world context. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 08:26, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.