Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of married couples among space travelers

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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of married couples among space travelers

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This... is trivia. Not encyclopedic. It is the only "List of married couples..." we have (by profession or otherwise; the Category:Lists of people by marital status is very sparse for a reason...), and I am afraid it only exists because someone thought astronaut trivia "cool". It is based on no reliable sources, as nobody but trivia space websites have published such lists (presumably; the article cites no sources for this topic). I don't think there exists any scholarly material of marriage among astronauts, neither; none is cited in the article. This is an OR, trivia list that does not belong in an encyclopedia, no more than any other lists of practices/customs/whatever by "space travelers". _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:21, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I have a strongly deletionist view when it comes to lists, so I should probably stay away of such AfDs. But frankly, that is ridiculous (LISTN, IINFO, etc.). Unless there is a RS source somewhere that discusses married astronauts as a group (and by that I mean more than an article on X with "she is married to Y, which is not a unique case as Z and W were married as well") it does not belong to WP. Tigraan (talk) 09:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. "Astronauts who happen to have married other astronauts" is trivia, really just another form of "people who have married coworkers or colleagues in the same field"...unless it is notable as a topic in and of itself, which I doubt. "Coupled astronauts who have traveled into space together" might be more interesting, though according to this list that has apparently only happened once, and I expect it won't happen again (NASA prohibits it, for example) until long distance space travel happens (as has been proposed with Mars missions). postdlf (talk) 00:13, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm trying to decide if merging to Women in space is appropriate - that article does cover some aspects of family relationships, but it seems sexist to put it there: although women astronauts were a novelty until some time in the 1980s, they're now entirely routine. Colapeninsula (talk) 10:02, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That article (Women in space) sounds weird to me, but I would not touch it with a two-meters pole. Some will insist that Men in space ought to be created as a valid categorization (as well as AB blood type astronauts), some that the gender gap is still present so it ought to be tackled and others that it almost closed so it ought to be promoted, etc. On a lighter note, it brought me to sex in space and 2suit (both of which ought to be tagged for hoax or humorous content if it was not for the fact those articles are dead serious). Tigraan (talk) 12:44, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as trivial listcruft, no evidence that astronaut couples as an entity are distinctly notable per WP:LISTN, even if individual astronauts generally are. --Animalparty-- (talk) 18:06, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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