Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robotocracy

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 both. I have no doubt that SomeHuman is onto something, but the article as it stands doesn't pass WP:V/WP:OR on the expanded scifi concept. I'll happily userfy on request for rewrite/expansion, but this must go as it is. The fact that it started as a "one-off" Daily Show joke doesn't help this article's fate any either. Xoloz 17:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robotocracy, Robocracy

• del original research. Neologism, only 86 unique google hits for "robotocacy", if exclude wikipediatry and 266 for "robocracy", and no minimally reputable source. `'mikka (t) 04:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. TheronJ 13:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Fascinating concept-- I guessed what two of the examples would be before I read them. Don't think The Matrix counts, though. That's something else. Oh-- probably great idea for a thesis, but WP:NOR. :) Dlohcierekim 22:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Of course, I'm sure my username will make me seem a bit biased, lol. I didn't introduce the term and it was mainstream, though it was satire. Those who work at The Daily Show ran a website called [The American Robocratic party] as a joke, as a campaign for America to be controlled by robots (the server seems to be down at the moment, but it was up a couple weeks ago) and featured it on their show, one episode. I admit, however, that the term is rather obscure and I can't find any academic source for it. I also just noticed the other article on robotocracy. Yeah, merge them. 71.246.229.50 16:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Del per nom and crystal ball. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as neologisms and a Daily Show/America:The Book joke. --Calton | Talk 06:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge There's no reason the information should be deleted completely outright, or merged into an irrelevant section.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nintenfreak (talk • contribs)
• Merge. The two articles are clearly redundant, however the concept itself has enough of a basis that I'd consider it sustainable. There's probably a dozen titles on my bookshelves that concern the issue. (And only half of them are by Isaac Asimov. See Uchronia for an example of an article in a similar theme that is well-done. That said, I'm not committed to the name, and I could be convinced that it would properly belong in Political ideas in science fiction with redirects (In fact, that article should mention it, regardless of the outcome of this discussion). FrozenPurpleCube 04:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I have made several expansions and modificatons to the Robotocracy article, and I ask that the voters re-evalulate their votes based on the article as it is today. FrozenPurpleCube 20:30, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Merge 'Robocracy' content into 'Robotocracy' (which I just edited a little further, after FrozenPurpleCube's improvements). It is a concept that plays in many minds, one does not need a crystal ball to realize that artificial intelligence or computer stupidity is increasingly playing a role in today's society (traffic control, 'bots' on Wikipedia, ... take decisions instead of human beings, often keeping our minds at peace by claiming a required human action or a guaranteed timely human intervention). — SomeHuman 20 Sep 2006 19:47 (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.