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The result was delete. Keeper | 76 15:21, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Free Worlds League[edit]

Free Worlds League (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Very bloated cruft article, written almost entirely in-universe in style, uses two BattleTech sourcebooks (primary sources) as the sole references and does not establish notability. Tagged for cleanup since 2008 and never improved. Delete/redirect to BattleTech#Inner Sphere.

Additionally, I nominate the following related articles.

Lyran Commonwealth (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - almost exactly the same issues (though shorter)

Draconis Combine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - again nearly identical issues; cites three sources, one expired, one is a fan wiki, and one is a fan page

Word of Blake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - tagged unsourced and notability in 2008, in-universe in 2010

There are a slew of other articles in the same vein (e.g. Federated Suns, etc), but many of them were not tagged for cleanup until recently. I would consider them equally worthy of removal but have not listed them due to the more recent cleanup tags.

Some guy (talk) 09:03, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete massive dump of in-universe trivia extremely unlikely to ever be reliably sourced. A merge of some kind might be possible, but the insurmountable core problem is that this is fansite material rather than encyclopedia material. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:59, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - As these seem to be reliable, if not notable pages, I copied them to wikialpha.org for preservation. If they get deleted, people can edit them there. Mathewignash (talk) 01:28, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As it stands, it doesn't belong here. If anyone sees it as a useful redirect to another article where it is mentioned that would be fine. --Michig (talk) 08:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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