Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spaceship Earth

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The result of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 16:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spaceship Earth

Delete. original research, POV, website spam. Also take note of the Links section --IByte 16:50, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think the rewrite is currently good enough to keep. --IByte 20:02, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

~~Vandalisim, request for speedy deletion Theon 18:57, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)~~
Keep My original request for speedy delete was carried out last year, page has since become appropriate. the term "spaceship earth" was championed by Buckminster Fuller.Theon 16:20, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
Delete original content and redirect to an appropriate page, perhaps Gaea hypothesis or Buckminster Fuller. The term has merit but the page has been too crufted to keep in its present form. However, it passes the Google test.Alba 17:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ Vote to delete this article in its present form as well as the other three entries made by this user on the basis of POV and website spam--Daul21 17:29, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ As it stands now it is OR/POV. I agree the term has merit, though. Start over? --Etacar11 17:35, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as long as it's a NPOV version. No matter how important Roger thinks his views are, they don't have a place in the article, unless recognized by relevant authorities. --Etacar11 14:19, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete original content and create disambig page for Gaia theory (science) and Spaceship Earth (Disney). - Thatdog 18:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Dottore So 18:03, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as suggested by Alba. --Habap 18:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and Expand now that it is not so crufty. --Habap 21:45, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and cleanup/disambiguate. It does have citations, even if it is POV. Gazpacho 19:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep in some form, it's not exactly new 'original research', an eager editor should be able to turn this into a good little article. --zippedmartin 21:14, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with author page or create a page for the book and merge it there. --Vaergoth 00:58, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep now it has been revised, though it needs further wikifying and expanding. 23skidoo 03:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per 23skidoo. -- DS1953 05:13, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
Keep per 23skidoo. I'll add the tags, someone needs to give it a good category or two. Vegaswikian 06:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notable phrase. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:58, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Please Keep!.Technically you are all right, of course: my contribution about the concept of Spaceship Earth is not widely recognised. Thus, your rejection of it as being just the author’s opinion. However, it happens to be true and extremely important. Sometimes it is appropriate to bend or even break the rules for a higher cause: if we screw the planet (which we are well on the way to doing) we screw Wikipedia and everything else as well. I hope that you will allow me to continue contributing to the article. If my passion to save the world is not scientific, objective or academic enough others can perhaps help it to become so –-Roger Hicks 18 Aug.

Roger, as long as none of the POV of the original article re-appears, you are as welcome as everyone else to contribute. Since Wikipedia is not a soapbox, any arguments to convince people to do something do not belong in Wikipedia. You are entirely free to post those arguments on your own website and anywhere else that will get people's attention. --Habap 13:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Why not. Notable phrase. Sam Vimes 13:10, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cleanup and keep: the metaphor and phrase are indeed notable, and this article is a beginning. Smerdis of Tlön 14:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Bucky Fuller is astounding, had I known this article was there I might have worked on it myself, keep it and I will. Alf 15:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable phrase that cannot be simply placed in any other singel article. Caerwine 22:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I've added some references and a new example of usage of the phrase by Kenneth E. Boulding. JimR 07:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I've also added a Buckminster Fuller quote. JimR 03:09, 26 August 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.