RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Science of Discworld

Science of Discworld | Result: Contents merged into the Terry Pratchett article and page turned into a redirect to Terry Pratchett#Science of Discworld

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Delete

1. Doesn’t seem missional. Christopher (talk) 21:58, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
2. I would say, "Merge into Terry Pratchett." But since it's entirely unreferenced, I'll say delete instead. Spud (talk) 11:21, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
3. Spud is right, on this occasion. Avida Dollars^{her again} 12:57, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

   @Avida Dollars I see what you did there. Spud (talk) 13:27, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

4. Wholly unsourced, doesn’t have much to say, not wholly coherent (for instance, who are “the wizards” in the last paragraph?). 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒 ^talk 15:27, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
5. -Flandres (talk) 15:29, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
6. doesnt do a whole lot for you than would get from reading the blurb on the back of a book AMassiveGay (talk) 19:52, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Keep

1. Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 16:20, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Merge/redirect

1. If there's any information worth retaining, move it to Terry Pratchett and call it a day. Kauri0.o (talk) 22:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
2. Seems like it would be more useful on Terry Pratchett, which is a much more likely search term, and it's easily short enough to merge. The books seem to discuss some missional topics, but I've not read any. --Annanoon (talk) 23:22, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
3. Kevs ^Ping! 06:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
4. Generally don’t like full on deletion, but yeah, this article gotta go. Gale5050 (talk) 18:59, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

   @Gale5050 Did you mean to vote delete? Christopher (talk) 19:02, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

   No, because I like the history to remain intact, @Christopher. I don't like full on delete unless its really unmergeable or the hstory has nothing meaningful.Gale5050 (talk) 19:57, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

5. 𝔖𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔞 𝔄𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔠𝔞 (𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔰) (𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔞) 16:48, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
6. Essay-Hastur! (talk) 19:54, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
7. Merge into Pratchett. Bongolian (talk) 20:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
8. Keep Revolverman (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

   @Revolverman It looks like you've put your vote in the wrong place. This is the Merge/redirect section. Spud (talk) 06:22, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

   I mean keep in a merge, doesn't need its own page, but the info is good. Sorry! Revolverman (talk) 07:44, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

9. Scream!! (talk) 16:32, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Goat

• I didn’t explain myself very well, as I thought this would be a clear-cut delete. Others have already mentioned some issues (unreferenced, doesn’t make sense if you haven’t read the Discworld series) but I’ll add a few more: the series is already mentioned briefly in Terry Pratchett, and (from what I remember of reading at least one of them a while back), the article exaggerates the books’ relevance to the mission considerably, they contained some commentary on vaguely missional issues like a lot of Pratchett’s books but it wasn’t the focus. This was written by a fan who just wanted an excuse to have more Pratchett related content on the wiki. Christopher (talk) 15:33, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

  Although I've read the books and enjoy the Discworld series (including the early Science of Discworld series) Terry Pratchett honestly isn't terribly missional IMHO. Maybe a couple of books that touch on exploring corruption of power in religion, but that's kinda it. Science of Discworld actually is slightly more missional due to the exploration of evolution in one book. They both seem very suitable for funspace though. (See Monty Python for a similar situation with a British humorist.) PanGalacticGargleBlaster (talk) 19:21, 8 May 2021 (UTC)