Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Answer from the Stars

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. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 14:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Answer from the Stars[edit]

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This crop circle does not seem to have received significant coverage outside of UFO groups and such. If we take out the uncited claims like "it is considered to be one of the best pieces of evidence for alien visitation to Earth", then we are left with no explanation of why this crop pattern is more significant than all the others. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete coverage appears to be limited to unreliable sites maintained by people who believe the circles are evidence of extraterrestrial life. Of the sources cited the only one that doesn't fall into this category is [1], which doesn't mention this crop circle. Hut 8.5 12:26, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not notable outside of UFO groups. JDDJS (talk) 18:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:V [2] --Reference Desker (talk) 11:19, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:44, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Could not find any significant mention in literature outside of dedicated crop circle web sites. Maybe would've been a little impressed if the NatGeo ref turned out to be legit but it doesn't even mention this specific crop circle. The other sources do not mention the specific name "Answer from the Stars" either. This may be worth a 1-sentence mention in the Crop circle article, but of the thousands of popular crop circles out there I doubt this one is so notable to deserve it's own separate article. And the "best piece of evidence for alien visitation to Earth" claim is laughable, even if it can be attributed. -- œ ^™ 09:30, 27 April 2011 (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.