The result was delete per WP:OR. I see no definitive refutation of the claim of original research in the article. I don't see what material there would be to merge, as the entire section on biology would have to go, the name of the species has to go and all that is left at this point is the name of the planet and the characters from the planet. —Doug Bell talk 04:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nomination for deletion This article is primarily an original research synthesis (which is anyway based on primary source material of a comedic nature which is unreliable for the serious-mindedness of this analysis) - fails WP:OR. An earlier version of the article briefly made it onto the main page DYK section before being removed for lacking reliable sources.
Please see the earlier version here with my comment about this on the main page error report page here.
Since then the article has been updated - the original version's own assertion that as Futurama is a comedy, it is an unreliable primary source and may not be regarded as an effort at creating stable or canonical definitions has been removed, though the long list of serious-minded research conclusions about the biology of this fictional comedy species derived from the primary source remains. Further references have been added but these amount to further original research efforts to justify the long list of serious-minded guesses - the new references are mainly links to actual biology texts that do not mention this species at all. They are simply used to support a fan's speculation. Then there's a link to a one-line speculation in a review on Startrek.com that the "Grand Midwife "seems like a cross between Yoda and T'Pau""(?), a link to an almost-no-content random fansite page[1], and also, it is strangely implied that as one of the Futurama writers may have a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, this supports the original research?
Furthermore, the problem of the name of the article persists from the original version - the article itself indicates that it is not based on reliable sources:"Although the name "Amphibios 9" is shown clearly in "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch", "Amphibiosans" are never referred to as such in the series. The name has, however, been picked up by fans and is used in such capacities as fan fiction and role-playing game statistics. Note that in Futurama, the inhabitants of Earth are called "Earthians"."
Bwithh 04:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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