Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Character shield

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. Tone 21:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Unreferenced original research WP:SYNTH since 2006(!) - Altenmann >t 19:37, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:24, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:24, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: a similar OR is discussed in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plot immunity. Xuz (talk) 14:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Plot device where any sourcable information might be included. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 00:58, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect or Delete I originated the page and contributed most of the first three paragraphs. Since then it's grown into a messy list of examples. I agree that it's not encyclopedic, and TV Tropes is really a more appropriate wiki. --Elwood00 ^{T | C} 01:57, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Elwood00, as the creator of the page, do you know if any reliable sourcing exists for this term? If not, there is no alternative but to delete it. — CactusWriter | ^needles 22:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Per Avoid Neoligisms -- the term is unsupported by any references, let alone reliable sources. The only usage of this phrase that I found in google searches [1], [2] postdate and mirror this 2005 Wikipedia article. There is nothing in book searches. There is no reason to redirect a term whose only sourcing is created by the page itself. — CactusWriter | ^needles 22:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep if anyone is prepared to rewrite it with sources. The term may not be ideal, but the concept is real enough & hardly limited to Start Trek. DGG ( talk ) 01:35, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - a simplistic speculative original research. Xuz (talk) 14:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.