Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar System belts

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:55, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Solar System belts

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Per WP:REDUNDANT and possibly WP:NOTSTATS. There is significant overlap of this article's content with that already present in Solar System#Inner Solar System, Solar System#Trans-Neptunian region, and the respective main articles for each of the Solar System's circumstellar discs (Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, Scattered disc, etc.). Beyond superficial descriptions of their origins and properties, a good portion of the article lists miscellaneous object populations and the distances of the planets and dwarf planets. Ark Hyena (they/any) 01:23, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:32, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: perhaps a merge of the 'Solar System belts' section into the 'Around the Solar System' section of Circumstellar disc would work? Praemonitus (talk) 02:01, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, but there's really not much information to merge. The article has a brief section on formation, but this is already covered by Circumstellar disc#Stages. Perhaps we could briefly mention major dynamical sub-populations, but that's all I can think of that is viable for merging. Ark Hyena (they/any) 02:43, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 01:28, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:16, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: it's interesting, but sort of a synthesis of the Grand tack hypothesis and the Nice model. Bearian (talk) 07:09, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - upon review, I think that this should be deleted based upon synthesis, although I repeat that it's quite interesting. Bearian (talk) 02:59, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.