Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timepoint

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 merge with Epoch (DC Comics).--Kubigula (talk) 03:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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Name of a prison for timetravelers in an obscure DC comics series, no claim to notability. SolidPlaid 02:48, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

• Merge with some part of the DC Universe (not an exper so i don't know where it would go) but deletion should never be the first thing we do. Fosnez 06:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 08:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete "The Timepoint is a prison for time traveling superheroes in the DC Universe. Epoch creates the timepoint in order to stop others from creating time fluctuations, in order to rule all of time." Really? Thank you. Now run along. Mandsford 15:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with Epoch (DC Comics). If it's the character's not terribly notable toy, put it in the character' article. Horrorshowj 10:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm ok with the information being placed on the character's page, but I find it hard to believe that the word "timepoint" is used most often in the comics context. Therefore it should be deleted without redirect. Timepoint should redirect to time. SolidPlaid 22:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Have you ever actually heard Timepoint used with relation to time? Term doesn't appear anywhere in Time and it is a proper name. Therefore should be Epoch redirectHorrorshowj 00:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, yes, I have heard it used that way. A search within Wikipedia shows the first few to be about Timepoint the fictional place, but then a bunch of usage in technical articles. True, they are not capitalized, but they outnumber the comics meaning 14 to 8. In particular, articles on streetcars seem to use the term, and we know streetcars are older than the fictional coining. SolidPlaid 05:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Good points, I stand corrected on the usage. From a WP standpoint, may be easier to keep the redirect to Epoch as there are several incoming links to this article. Although it's not a huge expenditure of effort to fix if redirect does go to Time. Horrorshowj 16:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

• Merge – this has very little potential for expansion and is probably not independently notable; the single line that this article consists of can be merged into DC Universe or Epoch (DC Comics). Melsaran (talk) 10:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete/merge/redirect Take your pick. we have two sentences that could live happily in another article, or be excluded all together as being a very minor element of this fiction. -- Ned Scott 06:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Epoch, per above. If the use of Timepoint is at issue, then we could redirect Timepoint to Time (disambiguation), then reference this Timepoint as an element of the DC Comics Character Epoch (or whomever). Internal links would be pointed directly at Epoch - there can't be that many, can there? ZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 19:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
• merge' per above to Epoch Mbisanz 01:52, 19 September 2007 (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.