# Talk:Stars in fiction

@Shocksingularity: This is way out of WP:PROPORTION to the significance of that aspect to the overarching topic of this particular article: stars in fiction. There is a separate article on the subject of black holes in fiction (see WP:SUMMARYSTYLE) where some of the material would be a better fit, and indeed the time dilation in Interstellar is already mentioned there. Other parts of the addition would not be a good fit there either, though might be at the Interstellar article. The cited sources are mostly sources on Interstellar, while the last one is—as you correctly noted—a source on black holes in fiction. Even that last source, however, only gives a moderate amount of WP:WEIGHT to Interstellar, specifically. Taken together with the coverage in other sources on the specific topic of black holes in fiction, such as the "Black holes" entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the "Black Holes" entry in Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia, it turns out that the depiction in Interstellar is a relatively minor aspect of the overarching topic of black holes in fiction. For the topic of this article—stars in fiction—sources on the specific topic (e.g. the "Stars" entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the "Stars" entry in Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia) do not cover black holes in much detail at all. TompaDompa (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

That's valid. But then, why is there content about black holes in fiction in this article rather than the Black holes in fiction article? Just because black holes are mentioned by reliable sources about stars in fiction doesn't mean they are appropriate for the article Stars in fiction. IMO, all the BH/NS content and maybe the SN content should be moved to the corresponding article (Black holes in fiction, Neutron stars in fiction or Supernovae in fiction) unless they are specifically relevant to stars themselves. Shocksingularity (talk) 22:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
A brief summary is reasonable both from a WP:SUMMARYSTYLE perspective (the black holes in fiction article is much more extensive, as are the other two) and because the sources on this topic do cover it briefly, particularly from a stellar evolution angle. This article would be incomplete without it. Anyway, I'll go ahead and remove this recent addition. TompaDompa (talk) 08:54, 19 September 2025 (UTC)