Forum:TC:Klaxon

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or, if the page was deleted, in the Senate Hall rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was No consensus. Imperators II(Talk) 21:45, October 7, 2018 (UTC)

Klaxon (talk - history - links - logs - delete - protect) and Klaxon/Legends (talk - history - links - logs - delete - protect)

Wookieepedia is not a dictionary, and there doesn't appear to be anything unique about this subject that doesn't also exist in the real world. - Brandon Rhea(talk) 21:40, September 23, 2018 (UTC)

Delete

  1. Brandon Rhea(talk) 21:40, September 23, 2018 (UTC)
  2. per comments below. Asithol (talk) 05:57, September 24, 2018 (UTC)

Keep

  1. It's the fact that it's a real-world trademark that makes it notable. Why does a trademarked Earth term get capitalized in a galaxy far far away? WP:NOT 2.6, aka WP:NOTDICTIONARY is specifically designed to address this: "The item's distinct lack of an otherworldly quality creates a unique incongruity." -- Darth Culator (Talk) 21:53, September 23, 2018 (UTC)
  2. I think the article should either be kept or merged with its legends counterpart, as it still is a part of Star Wars. SavagePanda845 19:12, September 24, 2018 (UTC) —Unsigned comment by SavagePanda845 (talk • contribs)
  3. Fan26 (Talk) 15:48, September 25, 2018 (UTC)

Comments

But the term isn't capitalized in Star Wars works (at least not consistently; see Tarkin, page 194; Shadow Games, page 284; and Han Solo at Stars' End, page 43; for just a few examples of both canon and Legends lowercase usage spanning 1979 to 2015). "Klaxon" falls into that same class of words like "dumpster," "bubble wrap," "frisbee," and "granola," that, while they started life as trademarks (and in some cases still technically are), are widely used generically. There's really nothing significant about its Star Wars usage. And anyway, the point of the WP:NOTDICTIONARY policy is so that we don't have articles that only regurgitate entries in actual dictionaries. These articles tell us nothing that one couldn't glean from any decent dictionary. Asithol (talk) 05:57, September 24, 2018 (UTC)