Talk:Mooninite

RFV discussion: October 2015–September 2016

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Mooninite

• WT:FICTION —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
  • The term "Mooninite" to describe Lunarians is well-used on the US television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. wikipedia:Mooninite Nicole Sharp (talk) 03:40, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
    • Please read WT:FICTION: by itself, that is completely irrelevant- you have to show usage independent of the show. This is a bit tricky, since there was an incident in Boston where some blinking Mooninite figures that were part of a publicity gimmick got mistaken for a bomb, and the authorities massively overreacted. It's hard to say whether "Mooninite" used in references to that incident are independent or not. Either way, though, the term as currently defined doesn't look like it will meet WT:FICTION. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:07, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
    • No, I can't find anything usage other than that publicity stunt. I would just delete it. SemperBlotto (talk) 04:29, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
    • Delete per Semper. --Diego Grez-Cañete (talk) 04:48, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• Googling with -"Aqua Teen" -Boston produces some results. It will take some work to build a decent list of references though. I would say to keep it unless it is proven that the word is a fictional neologism from the show. The best way to check I think would be to search works of early-to-mid-twentieth-century science fiction (such terms were common then); my instinct is that Aqua Teen Hunger Force is not the first place the word has been used, since it is cognate with both of the more common terms of Moon and Selenite. Nicole Sharp (talk) 05:07, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• Just -Boston -Aqua works as well. Here is a decent reference (review by AMC Networks on the classic film A Trip to the Moon), bold emphasis added:

  "In fact, despite the fact that it is so old, this film has it all: a gigantic cannon that fires a rocket ship in the spy [sic], a bevy of beautiful French girls, astronauts, alien flora and insectoid Mooninites. In a literal sense, science fiction does not get more classic than this." [1]

  Nicole Sharp (talk) 05:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Deleted. All uses in relation to Aqua Teen Hunger Force are WT:FICTION. A Google search did not turn up any uses of Mooninite in an attributive sense, and it is not clear from [2] itself whether Mooninite means "an inhabitant of the Moon" or is simply a fictional name used in the film Le Voyage dans la Lune which means it would also fail our WT:FICTION policy. Even if it were an attributive use, we would still need two other quotations for the word to pass RFV. — SMUconlaw (talk) 15:34, 10 September 2016 (UTC)