Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fleet admiral (science fiction)

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 13:33, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fleet admiral (science fiction)[edit]

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Tagged for notability since 2010. Unsourced WP:SYNTH. Fails WP:GNG. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:04, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. UtherSRG (talk) 12:04, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Man, no offense, but this article sucks. As per the nomination, it miserably fails WP:GNG and WP:SYNTH, not having a single citation. The fleet admiral role is not hard to liken to some in the real world, such as, you know, an admiral, the very thing the fleet admiral is named after. I'm surprised the article has survived for 19 years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IncompA (talk • contribs) 12:37, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unsourced, unfiltered, undiluted WP:OR. Completely non-encyclopedic and I find it hard to see how this topic could have attracted any interest by any reputable secondary source. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:44, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Trim and merge to Admiral of the fleet in popular culture. Note that One Piece isn't even really science fiction-y, Ender was never given rank in any real sense, and Thrawn's title was grand admiral, not fleet admiral. Still... the Trek reference should probably survive in an IPC note somewhere. Jclemens (talk) 16:10, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Admiral of the fleet seems like the best option to me too. BuySomeApples (talk) 19:11, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the current article without merging. This "fiction" article contains a lot more text than the "real" fleet admiral article, all of it "in universe". If we merge, we'll end up with an unbalanced article that tells the reader far more in-universe information about admirals that don't exist than it tells them sourced material about admirals who have existed. And besides, without sources, it's just a vocabulary word, not a notable concept. Star Trek features not only a fleet admiral but also bar-tenders, engineers, spies, criminals, scientists, doctors; there's no more reason for this article than Barkeeper (science fiction). Elemimele (talk) 21:47, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without merging per nom. Utter dreck that should be court-martialed forthwith or just summarily jettisoned out the nearest airlock. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:59, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I've never commented on a fiction-related deletion before but I had to chip in when I saw this one on the list. I was that gobsmacked by the bogusness (bogosity?) of this article's concept. Lots of synthesis and original research. The article doesn't cite any sources which is probably just as well since its creator was eventually banned for making sources up.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 03:06, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Completely unsourced, and the entire basis of the article of jamming these examples together as a single topic is one hundred percent pure WP:SYNTH. This absolutely should not be merged in any form to Admiral of the fleet. Rorshacma (talk) 05:05, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I am impressed, I thought we got rid of such uber-low quality fancruft pieces years ago, yet some still exist. Nice find - and now, good riddance. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:14, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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