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The result was merge to List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens#Nestene. Daniel (talk) 19:26, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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The Autons don't appear to have standalone notability from the parent series. The current sources used in the article, and the bulk of SIGCOV, are from unreliable sources like Looper and Doctor Who TV. The bulk of coverage I could find via searching was primarily from reviews, which do not indicate notability individual of their parent episodes, and unreliable sources like WhatCulture. Additionally, the House of Lords statement, while relevant, is only part of their wider statement on Terror of the Autons, which is what actually caused the discussion in the first place. The Autons were only discussed as an aspect of the episode that was scary, with other aspects of the episode being discussed in equal measure. This whole statement confers notability to Terror of the Autons, not the Autons themselves, as notability is not inherited from the parent subject here.
A search through News turned up one SyFy hit, but this boiled down to a brief plot summary with a declaration of "These guys are scary", which is nowhere near significant coverage. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/chosen-one-of-the-day-autons-in-doctor-who A search through Books and Scholar yielded nothing, though admittedly the results were muddied by concepts of autonomy and people with the name of Auton, even with specifiers like "Doctor Who." The coverage here is minimal and very little SIGCOV exists, and what info on their development we have is better covered as part of a wider article. An AtD to the "Nestene" section of List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens would suffice, as the Nestenes are the creatures who created the Autons, and the Autons serve basically as their lackeys, and are closely related enough in-universe to where they should be covered together. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 15:29, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, Television, and United Kingdom. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 15:29, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to the Nestene section of the AtD- especially the reception section. Does not meet the criteria for a separate article, but should exist somewhere. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per Pokelego999. The source analysis shows this article cannot be improved to pass WP:SIGCOV. I am neutral on a redirect target. Jontesta (talk) 00:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens#Nestene as AtD. Not sure if this might not be notable after all. Aside from SyFy, the why the Autons are effectively scary from the A.V. Club article is actually still missing: "achieve real terror because they're a slight but sinister variation on the everyday—a small step away from normal". And there is this parlamentary debate. But a merge seems like a reasonable compromise. Daranios (talk) 15:09, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
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