Forum:TC:Lana Beniko's lightsaber

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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 Delete. Tommy Imperial Emblem Macaroni 18:11, March 28, 2019 (UTC)

Lana Beniko's lightsaber (history - links - logs - delete - protect)

I found nothing notable about her lightsaber in all my knowledge of the game and expansions. And I noticed the creator has made several other unnecessary lightsaber articles. He must not be aware of our policy regarding these damn lightsaber articles! Winterz 19:36, March 15, 2019 (UTC)

Delete

  1. Winterz 19:36, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  2. TanDivoInsignia-SenateMurders Anıl Şerifoğlu (talk) 19:54, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  3. --Lewisr (talk) 20:17, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  4. Supreme Emperor (talk) 22:12, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  5. Fan26 (Talk) 22:19, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  6. Zed42 (talk) 23:34, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  7. Commander Code-8 Hello There! 23:58, March 15, 2019 (UTC)
  8. 1358 (Talk) 00:56, March 19, 2019 (UTC)
  9. IFYLOFD (Talk) 01:32, March 19, 2019 (UTC)
  10. Tommy Imperial Emblem Macaroni 11:04, March 19, 2019 (UTC)
  11. On principle. Unless a lightsaber is very, very notable (like the Anakin/Luke/Rey lightsaber), they belong in the Equipment section of the individual who owns it. —Unsigned comment by DigiFluid (talk • contribs)
  12. Hk 47 (talk) 14:12, March 19, 2019 (UTC)
  13. Ayrehead02 (talk) 21:20, March 24, 2019 (UTC)
  14. Bye. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 22:20, March 25, 2019 (UTC)
  15. Asithol (talk) 23:59, March 26, 2019 (UTC)

Keep

Comments

  • @Winterz: I'm also unaware of our policy about lightsaber articles. Our notability policy mentions in passing "notable personal weapons, such as the lightsaber used by both Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker" in a section restricted to canon articles (and therefore not applicable to this Legends article). But this policy gives no guidance on determining the notability of any given weapon; in particular, the top of the policy explicitly states, "any type of article not discussed below does not have fixed rules for determining notability," and personal weapons are not a type of article discussed on that page. So there does not appear to be a policy about specific lightsabers. If you know otherwise, I'd be grateful for a pointer to it. Thanks! Asithol (talk) 20:49, March 19, 2019 (UTC)
    • You are right. Unfortunately, there's nothing established in our notability policy about this subject. This remains an example of case-by-case, despite being a predominant case. Winterz (talk) 21:54, March 25, 2019 (UTC)
      • OK, thanks for clarifying. If we want to enact policy around this, a possible avenue (as I suggested in a different TC thread) might be to expand our dictionary policy to disallow articles that document standard-English combinations of other Wookieepedia terms and/or dictionary terms. Almost all of these unnecessary lightsaber articles basically exist to document the possessive use of a person's name followed by the term "lightsaber," a process anyone who understands how English works can do him- or herself. Asithol (talk) 23:59, March 26, 2019 (UTC)