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 merge to The Culture. Redirected for now. An editor can reach into the history in order to merge content per the below. Protonk (talk) 03:36, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Involved[edit]

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Non-notable fictional group. Some searching using the authors name revealed no Google News hits, no Google Books hits and no Google Scholar hits. This searching also reveals that the title is not appropriate for redirecting. Deprodded by an admin without explanation. Abductive (reasoning) 23:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC);:[reply]

Delete - I was the prodder. This article has no general notability, only the potential to over-summarize a particular plot element of the work in question. This clearly violates WP:NOT#PLOT. Savidan 01:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into The Culture. Zero sources asserting sufficient separate notability to keep. BusterD (talk) 11:36, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NW (Talk) 15:32, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak merge with [[[The Culture]]] per BusterD. However, The Culture is awfully long as it is, maybe this could be a legit spin-off article of The Culture if someone could rustle up any sources. Cerebellum (talk) 17:36, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Leave in tact. If you're not going to delete the 10,000 pokemon or startrek articles, then leaving this most certainly isn't going to do any further damage to the encyclopedia. --122.106.251.190 (talk) 09:04, 30 August 2009 (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.