Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Alert (Star Trek)

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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 delete both. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blue Alert (Star Trek)

Blue Alert (Star Trek) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Article about what amounts to some blinking lights and a siren. While the circumstances that lead to "blue alert" may be notable, the term/condition itself does not warrant its own article. The condition occurs most frequently in Star Trek: Voyager; I'd recommend redirecting either to that article or, more appropriately, USS Voyager (Star Trek). --EEMeltonIV 00:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page because, like "blue alert," "yellow alert" amounts to some lights and sound effects; minor significance to the shows' in-universe plots, and can't fathom any real-world (i.e. of-interest-to-Wikipedia) notability. No particular recommendation on where, if anywhere, to redirect.

Yellow Alert (Star Trek) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

--EEMeltonIV 01:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep All. MA seems to cover things a little better about these, thus a weak keep - I'm willing to defer these to MA. The only real problem that I have is that the nom effectively trivializes the article; while it's granted these are suspense elements (and in the structure of the script, little more), seeing these as such is equivalent to seeing the forest for only the trees. Moving on, though, yellow alert also has kind of crept into general usage, whereas blue alert... well, it's unusual, but for blue alert I'm willing to ignore the rules as necessary. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 01:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, it's entirely in-universe and doesn't even have reliable sources for that. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 01:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete even in terms of the comprehensive coverage for Star Trek in WP, this seems really trivial.DGG 04:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, per Night Gyr —A • D Torque 05:42, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both, WP:FICT breach detected. --Dhartung | Talk 06:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both. Blue Alert was shown on (IIRC) one episode of ST:V, so redirecting to that show would be somewhat useless, and Yellow Alert, while more common in Trek, would be better described at Memory Alpha, the actual Star Trek wiki. --Charlene 06:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete both This is a curiosity at best, nothing more. It's already on the Star Trek wiki so let's just leave it there. JodyB talk 11:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge & Redirect - I hate to see anything deleted. ;-) I'd just recommend adding it as a trivia section to the appropriate real-life alert page. ;-) Cheers, Relentless∞Recusant [iTalk] ♥ [iMessage] 13:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all as original research. Let's try to keep wikipedia articles on significant nonfiction instead of blurring the line between notable elements of a notable tv show and fancruft trivia on otherwise uncodified/unclear effects elements. /Blaxthos 15:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Blue Alert, which is trivia; Strong Keep Yellow Alert, which is quite famous as an idiom in American English now, besides it's Star Trek roots. Note my objection to the grouping of these two articles. They are vastly different: one concerns a tiny bit of trivia, while the other (Yellow Alert) concerns a concept essential to Star Trek from its beginning, now well-enmeshed in popular culture. Xoloz 16:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Uh, "quite famous as an idiom in American English now", how? I can safely say that I've never heard it outside of a Trek or sf context. --Dhartung | Talk 00:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all Both articles are in my opinion far too trivial to have encyclopedic value. Pax:Vobiscum 16:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all. There's a Star Trek wiki for these, I don't think there's much of a reason for them here. --Sable232 23:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into more general articles. This information is somewhat important.--Mars2035 01:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Set phasers to delete per above. RFerreira 06:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Fire the proton deletors It's an alert. That's all it is. There's nothing notable about a generalized "Oh crap" alert on a ship. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ Yell ○ 14:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Deserves a tricobalt sendoff DELETE with phasers set to vaporize. 132.205.44.134 22:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Blue Alert! Engage cloaking device! And while you're at it, mask your warp trail --Work permit 00:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge Alerts are a notable aspect of the Star Trek universe. But 3 different articles? Too much. Should be one article called Readiness alert (Star Trek) or Alert state (Star Trek) or similar. There are a lot of potential sources for such an article. God knows there's a Library of Congress size stack of ST Technical Manuals out there. nadav 00:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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.