Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of planets in Futurama
per |ignore all rules and the clear |consensus that this article should be here. We really need to revisit our guidelines and policies when they are being used to decimate coverage of popular fictional works, simply because we can't go to Google and find academic studies or newspapers covering the significant details of these works. Plenty of sources exist for articles like these, but because we've made our definition of "|reliable sources" so strict, we deem any these "fansites" as being "unreliable" and say we can't accept them as sources. Malarkey. Many of these "fansites" are as "peer-reviewed" as any academic work on more "serious" subjects, especially ones concerning works that are extremely popular among Internet users. They are often as reliable as (if not more so than) any newspaper or published book, such that they are often cited by such publications when ''they'' need detailed information on fictional works. Having a list of planets is akin to having a list of characters. It is a reasonable compromise between having a detailed article about each fictional planet collecting "fancruft" and having no information at all, or information that is so scattered among different episode articles, that it is difficult for interested people to find. Such efforts to collect information in this way ought to be applauded, not deleted
— User:DHowell, 02:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR||WP:CONSENSUS||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)