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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 ( talk) 18:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC) reply

List of fictional living planets

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While maybe the article on genius loci could be expanded to encompass living planets in speculative fiction, this is just an example of unreferenced listcruft. AFAIK, a list is supposed to branch off from an article rather than just be created whole cloth with no sources to speak of. _{ZXCVBNM ( TALK)} 07:49, 31 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Talk 08:59, 31 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Talk 08:59, 31 May 2018 (UTC) reply

• Delete- unreferenced listcruft with little to no navigational usefulness. Reyk _YO! 09:22, 31 May 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete. WP:LISTCRUFT. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:50, 31 May 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete, although the future edit war over whether Doctor Moon was really a living planet would have been glorious. Seriously though, that illustrates the problem with this particular list article. Lacking good sourcing at this article over the concept of what a "living planet" is, it would be difficult to ever make this list encyclopedic in the sense of contributing to a coherent sense of where to learn more about living planets in fiction. Each entry is probably just going to reflect the opinion of the editor who added it that the entry is a good example of a fictional living planet, and that's not good enough to hang an article of this kind on. Vadder ( talk) 14:56, 1 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Many of the entries are not living planets, but organisms that cover a planet (such as Father and Solaris). Some aren't planets at all, such as Fannie Mae. This variety, actually, is a good reason to keep the article (with discussion about this variety), or to make it part of the Genius Loci article. In either case you'd have to rename it something like "Sentient planets, stars, and planet-wide organisms in fiction". ShawnVW ( talk) 20:01, 1 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. StrayBolt ( talk) 06:49, 2 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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