Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cerebro

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 keep. Consensus is for article retention. The notion of a merge can continue in a discussion on an article talk page if so desired. (Non-administrator closure) NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:28, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cerebro

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This article has been tagged since 2008 as being WP:CRUFT. There is not a single reference to a secondary source. There is no attempt made to assess the subject based on its real world impact. Instead, it is just a long winded plot summary for a fictional device. The only audience are the X-Men fetishists, and they are better served by a fanservice wiki. Wikipedia is not for summary-only descriptions of works. - hahnch e n 22:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Undecided - The author deserves a scolding for not sourcing or writing it properly as well as not doing maintenance when requested, but not being an comic book fan myself, I can't say how notable this is. We have lots of articles of the type for things like the holodeck, so if anyone can demonstrate the notability of this topic, I'll vote to keep. My vote will probably be delete. Bali88 (talk) 23:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or at worst merge somewhere; there are any number of potential sources. BOZ (talk) 03:16, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Can you specify which of the sources you feel justify the keeping of this article? Looking through those books, the Cerebro is only mentioned in passing as a device that Professor X uses to locate mutants. I think Professor X would be a good redirect target, the device is already covered in that article. I don't think anything needs to be merged into it. - hahnch e n 12:40, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The fictional device is of key importance in most of the X-Men movies and in other X-Men media. bd2412 T 23:16, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep there are available sources. [1] [2] [3]--Crazy runner (talk) 07:04, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
weak keep though if there is a solid merge target, that might be the editorially correct way to go. I dug up a few sources (see my talk page) but nothing great. I think it's over the bar of WP:N, but it's close. Hobit (talk) 16:44, 13 June 2014 (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.