Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicide booth

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 keep. Please defer merge discussion to article talk. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suicide booth

This article is entirely originial research, which violates Wikipedia's policy. It also is not appropriate for an encyclopedia, failing WP:NOT hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 22:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

• delete I suppose if someone created an article about Futurama Devices and merged the articles into that article sans the commentary about the various derivations from other fiction, I could support the articles staying. But short of that, these are original research and not notable in an of themselves. Montco 23:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC) didn't know about List of Futurama_gadgets. Merge. Montco 00:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Reporting elements in fictional series does not constitute Original Research, and this article does not present any arguments as to suicide, or philosophical discussion. At most, I'd suggest a redirect and merge to a more general article about suicide in fiction, or even suicide in science fiction. BTW, this AfD isn't properly noticed on the article itself. I'd do it, but I'm not sure how. FrozenPurpleCube 23:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge all this to a single article, see above. Opabinia regalis 00:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Merge into what? The Futurama gadgets article? What about all of the other fictional works which incorporate suicide booths? Unlike the holophonor, which is important only in the realm of Futurama, the concept of the suicide booth existed long before that show, and has been used in may other works. -- Kicking222 13:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
  • If that's true, then I say Delete this, and an article about the suicide booth can be written that does not focus on Futurama. Danny Lilithborne 21:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but rewrite to reduce the focus on Futurama, as the concept existed well before the show. BryanG^(talk) 01:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as there are several references to suicide booths in fiction, including Futurama. Place the Futurama info in a seperate section to de-empasize it. Greba 21:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for same reasons as above; the concept is present in multiple fictional sources and seems worth documenting. However when the concept is used, it is not always a "booth" per se; for example in King in Yellow there are suicide centers that are clearly a larger building than a booth, but designed for the same purpose. I'm not a wikipedia expert so I don't know if that would justify a change of article title, a related linked article, or what. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.231.79.136 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per reasons listed above. It doesn't just cover Futurama, but other uses of the term too. --FlyingPenguins 05:06, 2 November 2006 (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.