Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beta Colony

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:04, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Beta Colony

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Fictional locaiton, seems to fail WP:NFICTION. Like a lot of other elements from this fictional universe... _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:37, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 03:02, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Provisional delete. As it stands, this article is a gross breach of WP:IN-UNIVERSE and WP:NOTPLOT. However, I did find A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre which has an in-depth out-of-universe discussion of the social culture of Beta Colony in comparison to the social difficulties of Jane Eyre covering half a dozen pages. I think it would be WP:UNDUE to base an article entirely on one writer—we don't know if this is an outlier crazy idea or generally in line with feminist thinking. But I also found Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy which has some brief out-of-universe talk about Beta Colony (see note 6 of Regina Yung Lee's article). I'm willing to withdraw my delete if there is someone willing to run with this and turn it into an encyclopaedic article. SpinningSpark 12:12, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Interesting finds, but I can't get sufficient view of the books to confirm there's in-depth coverage of the location/society (if I could I'be happy to withdraw this nom). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:45, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Piotrus: What gbooks will serve is often context related. Try doing your own gbooks search with the search term <Bujold "Beta Colony"> rather than following the direct link. Both the results I linked should come up on the first page. SpinningSpark 08:50, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - nice finds by Spinningspark. However I don't believe the brief mention in note #6 on page 48 of the Essays reference is in-depth enough to satisfy WP:SIGCOV. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:20, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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