Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mars (Doctor Who)

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:25, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mars (Doctor Who)[edit]

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Procedural nomination per this discussion at RfD. Article existed for 14 years before it was redirected in 2019. CycloneYoris ^talk! 00:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, Television, and Astronomy. CycloneYoris ^talk! 00:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete redirect Picking up from the RFD discussion, people aren't going to use this as a search term, and there isn't meaningful coverage at the redirect target. It certainly has no notability separate from the series. I don't see the procedural value in shifting the discussion here, but here we are. Shooterwalker (talk) 03:00, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Shooterwalker: The article was restored as a result of consensus at RfD, and the page is no longer a redirect; thus deleting the redirect is no longer a viable option. CycloneYoris ^talk! 03:22, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in case the guidelines aren't clear, there aren't enough sources to support this as an article, and it should be deleted. There is no value to the redirect either, since it's an unlikely search term. Shooterwalker (talk) 02:43, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete the bad title makes it sound like this is about something called “Mars” unique to Doctor Who, which might exist but almost certainly isn’t notable. The subject of the planet Mars in Doctor Who is not notable either. I don’t even know where this would redirect to, and it wouldn’t be a useful redirect anyway. Dronebogus (talk) 11:18, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Rather WP:INUNIVERSE the way it is structured, and seemingly non-notable in and of itself. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There are absolutely no sources indicating that the depictions of the planet Mars in various Doctor Who media is notable enough to even bother being mentioned at Mars in fiction, let alone have an independent article. Rorshacma (talk) 04:48, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - doesn't meet WP:GNG. Please ping me if any good sources are identified. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 10:01, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect if possible; ping User:TompaDompa on whether Mars in fiction can get a mention of Doctor Who, which would allow us to save this as a redirect? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:00, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Not as such, no. It might be possible to shoehorn in a link using a lower-tier source (which is not to say that we should—there are plenty of other works that are currently not mentioned in the article where the case for shoehorning them in is way stronger), but nothing substantial enough to motivate a redirect. TompaDompa (talk) 23:56, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as User talk:CycloneYoris said.MICHAEL 942006 (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2023 (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.