615:- Non-notable topic. The above sources should be discounted unless the user can actually take the time to show how they provide significant coverage. Laundry lists of sources do nothing for a discussion when the user is simply using the above links and grabbing any source that seem reliable. It's no better than a bot could do.
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of the MI. As it appears in a scholarly paper about the general concept of hi-tech soldiers in fact and fiction, it serves us well by placing
Heinlein's mobile infantry in this wider context. By itself, the source is not enough for an article but it isn't by itself; it is one of many sources which
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and the mobile infantry is mention in passing in a single sentence: "They also point to Robert
Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers (1959), with its vividly depicted powered armor and its heroic (if quasi-fascistic) mobile infantry"... sorry, this is just 'google hits' list of sources. Please tell us
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cover the topic. Taken together, these give us ample material to support an article and so we're good. So, Piotrus's objection is refuted and the validity of these sources is established. My !vote stands.
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