Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Embankment machine (The War of the Worlds)

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The result was delete. czar 06:40, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Embankment machine (The War of the Worlds)[edit]

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Unreferenced article and even it's very name may be ORish. I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline requirement nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) supplementary essay. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar." It was deprodded by User:Andrew Davidson with an unhelpful rationale despite the fact that I asked in my prod for a proper rationale while deprodding. I am not sure if a redirect to Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) makes sense but it can be considered. Please also see two other relevant AfDs next to this about nearly identical articles (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Handling machine (The War of the Worlds), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flying machine (The War of the Worlds)). Ping User:Hog Farm who endorsed my prod. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:36, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:36, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:36, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Extremely minor plot element of The War of the Worlds, without a single source being used in the article. Redirecting to the main article on either The War of the Worlds or Martian (The War of the Worlds) would be inappropriate as they are not mentioned on either page, and merging would be inappropriate due to the lack of any sources and the very minor role they played in the book or any of its adaptations. Rorshacma (talk) 04:31, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to TWotW - even if they are not mentioned, there is no harm in creating the redirect for future use. I would also suggest that Handling machine (The War of the Worlds) and Flying machine (The War of the Worlds) should be discussed. Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) is probably fine. BilledMammal (talk) 04:35, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@BilledMammal They are discussed, see the links just above. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:37, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, I must have missed that. BilledMammal (talk) 04:49, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- completely unsourced OR regarding a very minor element of a work of fiction. The title is not much use. This is clearly a hopeless case. At some point "because I'm allowed to" needs to stop being a reason to deprod, to stop this trollish waste of everyone's time. Reyk _YO! 10:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete topic fails WP:GNG. Don't recommend a redrect since titles with parenthetical qualifiers are inherently unlikely search terms. Avilich (talk) 18:50, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: There is no evidence that this fictional element has recieved sufficient coverage. Its name is also original research. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 08:30, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Performed WP:BEFORE on this when seconding the PROD. DEPROD failed to include any sort of actual sourcing or policy that supporting keeping this, which makes sense because there is none. Hog Farm _Talk 05:00, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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