Talk:Ultima Thule

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change to a redirect page[edit]

I suggest renaming this page to Ultima Thule (disambiguation), and making Ultima Thule a redirect page to Thule. 17:32, 9 January 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoffrey.landis (talk • contribs)

Oppose: This would make it really hard to find Ultima Thule (disambiguation) and thereby hard to access frequently accessed articles like (486958) 2014 MU69 unter their popular name (321,420 pageviews in the last 20 days). In contrast, Thule had just 83,405 pageviews in the last 20 days. The popularity of the Kuiper belt object may be temporary but in my opinion this looks more like a case where we do not have a primary topic. --AFBorchert (talk) 21:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Space:1999[edit]

@AFBorchert: Thanks for restoring the mention of Ultima Thule as a frozen planet in Space: 1999. However, it would be useful to have a source for this information in the relevant article List of Space: 1999 episodes. — JFG ^talk 11:39, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JFG, you see Ultima Thule mentioned in the synopsis at IMDB. I wasn't aware of this TV series – I just have this disambiguation page on my watchlist due to the link to (486958) 2014 MU₆₉ and simply checked the edit by the IP (much like you but I was the one having an edit conflict). The part about the immortality in this episode is also described in a contemporary article by the New York Times: O'Connor, John J. (19 September 1975). "TV Review: Lavish Visual Effects in 'Space: 1999' Series". New York Times. p. 75. Retrieved 3 February 2019. You see this episode also mentioned along with the name of the ice-planet in various books: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, p. 215, at Google Books (second paragraph), An Analytical Gude to Television's Battlestar Galactica, p. 73, at Google Books (see last paragraph). However, I will not add any citation to List of Space: 1999 episodes as I am too unfamiliar with this subject. But given the aforementioned sources, there can be no doubt that an ice-planet named Ultima Thule is a central part of this episode along with its immortal inhabitants. --AFBorchert (talk) 13:42, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Those are great sources, thank you very much! The New York Times columnist was surely having fun when he noted that "the episode features several chesty women dressed in what appear to be bathing suits strategically torn for maximum exposure". — JFG ^talk 10:08, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@AFBorchert: I have added the Imagining Outer Space book source to both the dab page and the episode list. Thanks again. — JFG ^talk 10:25, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JFG: Thanks for adding the reference to the corresponding episode of List of Space: 1999 episodes. Please, however, undo this addition to this disambiguation page per MOS:DABENTRY (see last point) as references are not to be added to disambiguation pages but to those articles they refer to. --AFBorchert (talk) 12:45, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected.[[1]] — JFG ^talk 19:47, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]