Talk:Uplift (science fiction)

message: I think that Bootstrapping (science fiction) should be merged with this article. It appears to be the same concept, only with different literary references.
:Bootstrapping appears to be cultural.  This article is about physical changes to the organism so I think it merits the distinct article. Samw 01:15, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bootstrapping 

message: Should there be a reference to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001? One of the key points of the book and the movie was that the Monolith builders uplifted humanity's ancestors into sentience
:I've added with a reference.  Feel free to elaborate or cite more references. Samw 03:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2001 

message: The examples used in this article seem to be randomly selected and inserted by fans to provide exposure for books they like. If the idea is really notable, then notable examples that significantely expanded or promulagated the idea need to be identified, not simply every book that has something vaguely similar occur.
My removal of 3 examples was reverted. Wikipedia is not papaer, but nor is it a collection of indiscriminate facts. If people just want to make the article into a list of books that have uplifted animals, such an article can be created. Naming a book and describing the animals in it contributes nothing understanding without context.Yobmod (talk) 07:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken.  Would you agree a list of books with uplift is useful?  Perhaps we could convert that section into such a list with the hope that it will eventually be refactored into a separate article?  (BTW, I didn't add that section originally; I just want to have as much information in Wikipedia as possible.)  Samw (talk) 03:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would work for me. A section discussing the phenomenon, and a seperate section for a list that can be spun off as it grows.Yobmod (talk) 10:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: I object to this article being deleted.  While clearly it can be improved, it's been properly categorized by the SF project as "start" class and "low" importance.  But that doesn't mean it should be deleted.  Samw (talk) 21:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion 

message: The Volus race was not uplifted by the Turians: they were a space-faring race long before the Turians were discovered by the Council. On the other hand, both the Krogan and the Drell were uplifted respectively by the Salarian, during the Rachni War, and by the Hanar.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.23.177.34 (talk) 23:32, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass Effect - Volus were NOT uplifted 

message: There is no "edit" option on the page, as there are a couple of errors I wished to fix. 76.214.109.17 (talk) 08:25, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unable to Edit? 

message: Would Rocket Raccoon count as a good example of uplift in pop-culture?  The description of how he was made was brief, but seems like a really good pop-culture example to run with to explain the concept to an average person.   - Chrontius (talk) 07:36, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guardians of the Galaxy? 

message: I'm surprised the article doesn't list Clarke's classic novel, in which humanity is raised to higher plane of development by aliens. ---- 24.55.33.124 (talk) 04:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you add it please? --Fixuture (talk) 19:37, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Childhood's End'' Arthur C. Clarke 

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