Talk:Dilithium/Archive 1

Dilithium is not fictional: http://webmineral.com/data/Dilithium.shtml —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.86.161.87 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

That's Dilithium Telluride, the page is poorly written. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 01:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

dilithium exists and is not fictional see MO diagram, it is also the name for a mineral lithium telluride and by googling dilithium you will find countless links to dilithium compounds , suggest making dilithium a disambiguation page. V8rik 23:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that a disambiguation page is appropriate – it seems unlikely that there will be an article written about the real-world substance, at least in the near future. However, it does seem wrong that the article starts out by stating that the substance is fictional, and only later admitting that it is real as well – this is obviously misleading. Thanks. — Lee J Haywood 08:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Someone split out the Star Trek usage to Dilithium (Star Trek), leaving the real-world material at Dilithium, despite the fact that 90% of the incoming links were pointing at the STar Trek usage. I've thus moved Dilithium to Dilithum (real) and made Dilithium just be a dab page. I think there would be a good case moving dilithium (Star Trek) to Dilithium and having a dab note at the top, but i don't want to cross that bridge right now. Morwen - Talk 11:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that is a load of shit. If dilithium is a real compound then the article linked to 'dilithium' should be the real world compound and not the fictional one.

I think the current situation makes the most sense: disambig at "Dilithium". Having the Star Trek article there when the substance actually exists seems backwards even if most people may be looking for Star Trek info.--Eloil 06:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia [i]is[/i] a real-world encyclopedia, first of all. Fiction is secondary. If Star Trek authors lacked technical knowledge and attributed to dilithium properties it doesn't possess, it's still not a reason to give fiction priority. We just need to fix the links with AWB and put it as always: real in the mainspace, fictional with parentheses. CP/M^comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 15:08, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved Dilithium (real) to Dilithium. I think we all agree here that RL takes priority. - ∅ (∅), 15:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]