Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Needlegun

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. Deathphoenix ʕ 20:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needlegun

Fancruft born of the confusion of the historical Needle gun with the real prototype Special Purpose Individual Weapon. Leibniz 12:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Merge to Flechette as a "cultural references" section or more likely Delete for OR. This article appears to be about fictional recurrences of a type of weapon in science fiction, but there is no objective connection between these recurrences except, well, in this article, which makes it original research. -Markeer 13:48, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

*I fear the fanboys are quite capable of turning the flechette article into gamecruft in case of a merge. Leibniz 19:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep See Weapons in science fiction for other articles. FrozenPurpleCube 14:49, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Merge or Delete as per Markeer. If merged, OR speculation needs to be removed Bwithh 16:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Contrary to say, the plasma rifle featured in many works of Sci-Fi under that name, there seems to be little connection between the various devices cited here (other than they fire a variety of non conventional projectiles). Equendil Talk 19:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This is a very common type of sci-fi weaponry. - CNichols 04:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Ditto. - Heilemann 04:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep although I think needle gun and needlegun should be merged or disambiguated. A disambiguation page might be in order because a "needlegun" is also an air-powered tool used aboard Navy ships for chipping off old paint. =Axlq 03:47, 2 October 2006 (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.