Talk:Mercury in fiction

message: I'm not understanding what the distinction is between "Old Mercury" and "New Mercury". It seems there is a split in the 1960s, but I don't know what event transpired that creates this distinction. -Thunderforge (talk) 06:11, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In the introduction to the page, it explains that the "Old Mercury" was considered tidally locked to the sun, and had one face permanently exposed and one face permanently in night. PaulWay (talk) 23:13, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the Distinction Between Old and New Mercury? 

message: ===Pass-by comments by CactiStaccingCrane (talk)===
Hello! I have some feedback on the article as well, which I would share below:
* I see no depiction of mining Mercury for constructing Dyson spheres. I think there might be more information about that
* Having an image in early depictions section is nice, since these graphics has been in public domain
* A brief introduction to the planet would be awesome
That's it for now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:48, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There may be more information about turning Mercury into a Dyson sphere, but none of the sources I've found discuss that in a fiction context (though a quick Google search turns up quite a few webpages about it as a thought experiment), and it would probably be undue to add more than a brief sentence about it if such a source were to be found, since we're supposed to cover the different aspects of the topic in WP:PROPORTION to their coverage in published reliable sources on the topic. I've tried to find appropriate images to add, but without success so far I'm afraid. I've added that Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, and there is of course a link to the article on the planet itself: Mercury (planet). TompaDompa (talk) 23:19, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

text: @CactiStaccingCrane We need to consider whether the topic has been discussed in RS. For example, while I was working on Earth in fiction, I noticed a number of aspects that I think should be discussed but were not (in RS covering this topic). Sadly, I could not add them to the article b/c they'd represent my OR views on this topic. Incidentally, Earth could also be dismantled... and has been, in some works of fiction - but no source I used touched upon this (unless we count Hitchhiker's Guide, I guess... :P ). I concur with images. Not sure if we need to summarize what Mercury really is in depth, although working in a sentence or three early on for context makes sense. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion is that the resources should be focus on Solar System in fiction first, since this has way more sources than individual planets. After the article get , splitting them to individual articles would be much better. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:07, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? Solar System in fiction has no sources whatsoever. Moreover, the main sources I've consulted treat the planets separately (mostly, at least). Anyway, do either of you have any particular suggestions about what images to add? TompaDompa (talk) 01:34, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Transclusion from GA Review Page comments prior to review

message: Hello! I have some feedback on the article as well, which I would share below:
* I see no depiction of mining Mercury for constructing Dyson spheres. I think there might be more information about that
* Having an image in early depictions section is nice, since these graphics has been in public domain
* A brief introduction to the planet would be awesome
That's it for now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:48, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There may be more information about turning Mercury into a Dyson sphere, but none of the sources I've found discuss that in a fiction context (though a quick Google search turns up quite a few webpages about it as a thought experiment), and it would probably be undue to add more than a brief sentence about it if such a source were to be found, since we're supposed to cover the different aspects of the topic in WP:PROPORTION to their coverage in published reliable sources on the topic. I've tried to find appropriate images to add, but without success so far I'm afraid. I've added that Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, and there is of course a link to the article on the planet itself: Mercury (planet). TompaDompa (talk) 23:19, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

text: @CactiStaccingCrane We need to consider whether the topic has been discussed in RS. For example, while I was working on Earth in fiction, I noticed a number of aspects that I think should be discussed but were not (in RS covering this topic). Sadly, I could not add them to the article b/c they'd represent my OR views on this topic. Incidentally, Earth could also be dismantled... and has been, in some works of fiction - but no source I used touched upon this (unless we count Hitchhiker's Guide, I guess... :P ). I concur with images. Not sure if we need to summarize what Mercury really is in depth, although working in a sentence or three early on for context makes sense. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion is that the resources should be focus on Solar System in fiction first, since this has way more sources than individual planets. After the article get , splitting them to individual articles would be much better. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:07, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? Solar System in fiction has no sources whatsoever. Moreover, the main sources I've consulted treat the planets separately (mostly, at least). Anyway, do either of you have any particular suggestions about what images to add? TompaDompa (talk) 01:34, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Pass-by comments by [[User:CactiStaccingCrane|CactiStaccingCrane]] ([[User talk:CactiStaccingCrane|talk]])

message: https://www.universetoday.com/130109/how-do-we-colonize-mercury/ lists several more recent works, most notably a whole series by Kim Stanley Robinson including The Memory of Whiteness, which includes the same concept "cities that move to stay in the sunrise area" that is here instead credited to later work by Stross. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:17, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The source seems to be saying that the moving city concept didn't appear until the 2012 novel 2312, no?  I don't get the impression from the source that those stories by Robinson are a series, and our articles don't seem to imply that either. Anyway, I'll expand the article somewhat. TompaDompa (talk) 07:19, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The moving city concept is in The Memory of Whiteness, which was published in 1985. The other KSR works use the same setting. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I see. I don't think the aim should necessarily be to include the earliest examples, but rather the most important ones (as evidenced by their presence in WP:Reliable sources on the topic), but I have at any rate added a mention of The Memory of Whiteness to the article. TompaDompa (talk) 21:56, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some missing material