Talk:Mars trilogy
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Articles on the individual characters in this series were listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion July 1 to July 7 2004, consensus was to redirect to here. Discussion may be found at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Boone, Bogdanov, Russell, Ai.
Please don't link to the individual characters, unless...
I propose we remove the individual character pages for this book - I mean, delete the pages for Hiroko, Sax, Boone etc...
This is not to criticise the contributions to those pages, but I ask what role these entries have in an encyclopedia?
I am not aware of any of these characters directly influencing other novels or being cited in academic works etc. ie. These characters are not Hamlet, Bloom or Superman - there is nothing more to know about them than you could find out by reading the book - so why do they deserve an encyclopedia entry?
Being a fan of them is not a good enough reason. I like these characters too, but in the absence of evidence of their influence outside the text of the Mars Trilogy, I think the pages should go...
- After thinking it over a day or two, I decided that, rather than delete the character pages (many of which were stubs), I merged their content into this page. It just doesn't seem 'encyclopedic' to devote entire articles to fictional characters that have no known literary influence outside the text in which they were first writtern.
- As the character's information from the stubs have been merged into the Red Mars article, the individual pages are redundant. Please don't link to them unless these characters prove to have some kind of literary influence beyond the Mars books...
Mercurius 23:27, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- More important than their literary influence is that there isn't enough to say about them to be worth a separate page, with little prospect of there being more to come. And it's not like this page is overloaded.
- I don't recall where Coyote came from; is Trindad a misspelling of Trinidad?
--wwoods 22:44, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)