Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Impulse drive
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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 no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Impulse drive
This article asserts no notability through reliable sources, and is thus trivia and synthesis of trivia. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- Keep Nomination provides no evidence to support its unlikely claim that this topic is not notable. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- speedy delete for gods sake we don't need specialized articles on fictional methods of transportation from TV shows. transwiki this to the star trek wiki and give it a rest nerds.SuperSuperBoi (talk) 11:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- Speedy Keep Based on existing references [1]. Topic is notable. --Firefly322 (talk) 11:18, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 22:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- Weak delete looks like crap compared to the rest of the Star Trek articles; merge it in with one of them. M1ss1ontomars2k4 (talk) 04:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
- Or clean it up, is perhaps what I meant. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 (talk) 04:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
- Weak delete Firefly's search only lists 12 hits for this article. If it was notable, you would expect a lot more hits than this. Moreover, about 2 or 3 of the hits deal with psychiatry or bipolar disorder, not really Star Trek. Artene50 (talk) 08:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Notability only requires two sources. But here's a more complete list of links showing hundreds and thousands of sources of various types: Find sources: "impulse drive" "star trek" — news, books, scholar. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:03, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
- keep per The Physics of Star Trek. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Delete per Judge. Mere trivia that does not support an independent article. Eusebeus (talk) 22:34, 2 June 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.
