Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 October 1

October 1[edit]

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on October 1, 2013.

Space puppy[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was delete. --BDD (talk) 17:26, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Space Puppy → The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series) (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

Delete - I'm frankly kind of shocked this worthless redirect has been around for so long. It points to the target article on the basis of the appearance on-screen for about 5 minutes or so of a dog-like creature, which dies and is never seen nor spoken of again in the subsequent 40+ years of the Star Trek franchise. No one in a million years is going to think "Space Puppy" when searching for an episode of Star Trek in which Captain Kirk is split in two by a transporter accident. It also constitutes original research in that it's a determination without support in reliable secondary sources that the animal in question is of a species whose young are properly identified as "puppies" and that the animal is of an age for which the use of that term would be appropriate. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 02:00, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete lots of different space puppies in fiction. -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 06:07, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not mentioned at target. Siuenti (talk) 10:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – retarget. A good article focus for this redirect is Soviet space dogs#Belka and Strelka. That paragraph also brings out that the late president JFK affectionately called his daughter Caroline's puppies "pupniks". – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 22:15, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I find no evidence that any dog in any space program was commonly (or really, ever) referred to as a "space puppy". Jerry Pepsi (talk) 23:41, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With the exception of the existence of this redirect, of course. ;>) This redirect is not harmful. Keep the puppy. – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 09:52, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Not a useful redirect, nor is the suggested alternate target likely. -- Whpq (talk) 16:26, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I really want to keep this :( but I can't find reliable sources that makes this a plausible redirect for any article.--Lenticel ^(talk) 00:56, 3 October 2013 (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.