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. - Mailer Diablo 17:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

M4 (Star Trek)[edit]

Non-notable support character with no real-world significance or impact. User:FrankWilliams seems to have ownership issues with redirecting the material to the sole episode, "Requiem for Methuselah", in which M4 appears. Episode article at least has the potential to be an appropriate article that covers episode's notability. EEMeltonIV 19:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No ownership issues just think the article should stay. There are many other articles in Category:Fictional robots that fall under the above criteria. If we are going to remove M4 (Star Trek) we should also remove many of the one in the Category:Fictional robots group. I just want to be consistant if the argument is out of principle. Also, think there is a significance. The "M" designation was mentioned in Star Trek many times. The article even has verbiage about not confusing M4 with the "M" series of multitronic computer invented by Dr. Daystrom. FrankWilliams 19:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This just repeats material from the episode article. It's hard to imagine that anyone would even know about this thing without knowing about the article. Mangoe 19:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No sources for real world context. The fact that other pages should be deleted for the same reason is not a reason to keep. If the pages aren't that closely related then they should have separate discussions. Different works of fiction have different availablity of sources, so we can't just lump them all together. Jay32183 19:55, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The article, as it stands, justifies its self to a level I deem acceptable for a separate article. I'd also support a merge to "Requiem for Methuselah", but not deletion. Matthew 19:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per nom & per WP:FICT, if it belongs in the Requiem... put it there. Carlossuarez46 21:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. No importance. Valrith 21:41, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Character appeared in all of one episode. Hardly a WP:FICT major character, so no need for a separate article. Anything that needs to be said about it can be said in "Requiem for Methuselah". As for other articles about fictional robots, well WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Feel free to nominate those that are similarly non-notable so we can vote to delete them too. A reference to another entirely fictional machine from a different Star Trek episode hardly indicates real world significance. Mwelch 01:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, fails WP:FICT guidelines for separate article from the episode summary, which already has sufficient information about the robotic character. --Dhartung | Talk 01:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Maxa megalon 2000 05:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The article seems to be ok on it's own. A merge might also work but keeping it is preferable. 206.125.176.3 17:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Based on what? Jay32183 18:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Based on that I think the article is ok on it's own. 206.125.176.3 17:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - I was asking why you think it's ok on its own. What policies or guidelines are you basing it on? Jay32183 18:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - The article, as it stands, justifies its self to a level I deem acceptable for a separate article. 141.156.213.51 00:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - it was the focus of one episode. As per WP:FICT, this should be covered in the episode article rather than a separate article. -- Whpq 17:10, 14 May 2007 (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.