Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barren planet
Various scifi (games, literature, etc.) calling various things a barren planet isn't going to get us an encyclopedic article. At best it's going to be a List of barren planets in fiction. But I'm not sure that satisfies . As for Mars, Venus, etc., the accepted scientific terminology is telluric planet or rocky planet. "Barren planet" is not even among the Rocky_planet#Types|proposed sub-types of that. Some science texts use the term informally http://books.google.com/books?id=EAD2-GrarkEC&pg=PA81http://books.google.com/books?id=udY6QqrUF1UC&pg=PA157 but without even a proposed (let alone somewhat broadly accepted) definition in a science source, this article isn't getting off the ground per , etc. I can even find the term pretty planet in some introductory science books http://books.google.com/books?id=q8FFWdvlyZMC&pg=PA101. I hope nobody considers creating an article for that. (As a side-point, the Universe Today article cited http://www.universetoday.com/11430/the-end-of-everything/ doesn't even use the word "barren", so the wiki article is also a case of 
— User:Someone, 10:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LISTN||WP:GNG||WP:SYN (Wikipedia:Notability)