Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clan Steel Viper

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 redirect to Clans (BattleTech)#Clan Steel Viper . Would be merge but material is largely unsourced. Any information can of course be added to the target page subject to normal WP constraints. – Rich Farmbrough, 19:12, 25 July 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Clan Steel Viper

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Disputed prod. No sources other than a general link to the clan listing. Editor removed suggesting merge but there have been merge discussions at Talk:Clans_(BattleTech)#Merge_remaining_clans since December 2008 with nothing done. Suggest deletion instead of merging and then removing it all as unsourced anyways. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:02, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:27, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Enforce merge and trim appropriately rather than deleting it. Jclemens (talk) 20:36, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Clans (BattleTech) 76.66.192.55 (talk) 07:29, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per my arguments here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 15:51, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{Rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^talk 21:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
NOTE The article under discussion here was tagged for {{Rescue}} by anonymous IP:166.191.159.241 [1] in seeking assistance with its improvement. ---- 05:44, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - No reliable sources exist to establish the notability of this subject. All mentions of this are on fan-sites, and contain in-world fancruft. SnottyWong ^talk 21:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - once summarized it probably only needs two or three citations, which can be easily found in the fictional works concerned. Claritas § 20:17, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 00:14, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Clans (BattleTech)#Clan Steel Viper where the subject is already covered. Can always merge in more information if it suits the summary style. Shooterwalker (talk) 16:19, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- Sourceless plot summary written in an in-universe style. I don't think a merge is appropriate because this article has no usable content (it's all unsourced) and because the obvious merge target already covers this fictional element in enough detail. I'll also point out that Clans (BattleTech) is itself overflowing with sourceless crufty plot summary and would not be improved by flooding it with more. Reyk _YO! 19:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Clans (BattleTech). Edward321 (talk) 00:44, 24 July 2010 (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.