- 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 redirect to Weapons in science fiction#Plasma weaponry. RL0919 (talk) 09:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Can this be salvaged either by improving description of real world concepts or literary ones? Or should be just redirect this to Weapons in science fiction (or maybe a disambig or sorts given the concept of Plasma cutting and other concepts mentioned in the article)? (Also note the prior AfD from 2015 was 'delete', and this recreated article is hardly an improvement)Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:08, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:08, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep. This is not the same article that was deleted in 2015. The "first" AfD was for another deleted article at this title; it states that a different article in a similar scope was then moved to this title (see the history, especially the move diff [1]; this article has a long history dating back to 2004). Also, AfD is not cleanup: it's not clear why this article should be deleted, and outstanding maintenance tags do not alone prompt deletion. It looks like the nominator has not completed WP:BEFORE, so speedy keep until/unless a more thorough rationale is presented. ComplexRational (talk) 16:01, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge text to Weapons_in_science_fiction#Plasma_weaponry. The article can be kept only if completely rewritten to reflect the actual subject rather than fiction (see for example, [2]). My very best wishes (talk) 21:24, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Weapons_in_science_fiction#Plasma_weaponry as a plausible search term. Nothing should be merged, however, as none of the content here is sourced at all, which makes it seem to be WP:OR. As mentioned, the article could likely be restored if rewritten to be about the real-life concept, but until that is done, the article space can serve as a redirect. Rorshacma (talk) 00:29, 12 December 2019 (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.