Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thedus

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 of the debate was No consensus default to a redirect to Alien (film) (there is nothing new to merge). Deathphoenix 21:57, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thedus

non-notable fictional planet, mentioned but once by name in the movie Alien, thus trying to create something out of nothing. Scoo 19:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep There are other examples of obscure fictional places in the Narnia or Lord of the Rings set --Ruby 19:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I hear what Ruby is saying, but this was not much more than an incidental mentioning in the film. Anything beyond that would be fancruft, in my view. PJM 19:54, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Fancruft is when you go far beyond the "canon" of the movies, as in the Star Wars Expanded Universe crap which occupies about half of wikipedia's server space. --Ruby 20:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree and that's exactly how I feel about having a stub based on a virtual throw-away line. PJM 20:11, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

• Slight Merge to Alien (film), at best. Stifle 13:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This is a 2 sentence article without any possibility of expansion. Nothing is really known about the subject. While I don't mind fancruft, this does not warrant its own article. Compare to Star Wars, where Mygeeto doesn't get its own article, even though we see them on film and can write paragraphs about it. -LtNOWIS 22:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Thedus is nothing but a dreamt up name for the departure point of Nostromo in the movie, we can deduce that it is a mining colony/world or a freight hub; the script for Aliens simply substituted "mining colony" with Thedus. As such, at the very most it might have an entry in an article about the Alien/(Predator) universe or planets/worlds or similar. Can't see though why it could remain as an article entirely on its own. Scoo 13:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete All information that would be of any use to anyone about Thedus is contained in the Alien article. Kietotheworld 22:38, 21 February 2006 (GMT)

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.