Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1990s (LDS)


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The result was merge Obviously, consensus wants to see these merged into one article. But complex merges cannot be expected of closing admins, so someone will need to actually do the work. Mango juice talk 16:03, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

1990s (LDS)

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A series of decade timelines of events that happened in the Mormon world (yes that's LDS not LSD incase you read wrong). Looks like major list/timeline cruft to me. Candy-Panda 11:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep and Improve I'm sorry, but this is not "Timeline of the LDS Universe". These articles could probably be merged into a larger article, but this, essentially, is a chronological arrangement of historical events in a real-life organization.  Mandsford 14:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - these things exist for other subject areas, I don't see what makes this any different. They could do with improving, and renaming (1990s in the Church of the Latter Day Saints for example) or amalgamting into one larger article, but definitely something worth keeping. -- Roleplayer 15:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge all into one article, don't merit individual pages.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 15:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It looks like leadership personnel changes - the title is confusing. Does every Cardinal get a mention on a Roman Catholic page? Two thousand years of Cardinals would be painful. I understand a list of every Mormon top poobah, but not every "elder" or coat-holder. Without an explicit definition of what belongs on the page it's an OR mess. MarkBul 16:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into one. These articles don't warrant standing alone, but together they are a decent history of many main events in the religion.  The people mentioned within appear to be all from the Quorum of the Twelve (the highest group within the church), however, if every single one was listed, the article would get really big.  I believe there have been about 195 different individuals in the Quorum of the Twelve since 1830.  Of course, some are more notable than others.  Timeline could get really big, but I think as long as it was well-managed instead of getting full of cruft it would be fine.  Useight 17:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into one per Useight &mdash; Timotab Timothy (not Timdagnabbit!) 18:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge the decade articles into one timeline. Delete the century articles since they contain no content at all. DCEdwards1966 20:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The decade articles contain valuable information which should be retained.  Selective merges, perhaps into relevant historical periods (i.e. LDS colonization of the west) would be my second choice.  However, the century articles could be deleted.  WBardwin 22:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge articles. Content which for whatever reason doesn't easily fit into a timeline can be placed in a list in some other article, like some of the lists of bishops. John Carter 22:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge while keeping the data. I can see ONE timeline, but this is the LDS church, which formed in the 1820's. We're not looking at something like the history of the Roman Catholic or Orthodox or even Judiasm or Islam here, there just isn't that much history to fill that many timelines without getting down into details which would fail notability. Ealdgyth | Talk 00:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge w/several articles &mdash; Some of the decades have almost nothing while others are very full. I suggest the following structure:
 * 1820 - 1844 (death of Joseph Smith Jr.)
 * 1844 - 1899
 * 1900 - 1999
 * 2000 - present
 * This looks like it would make logical groupings while keeping the articles reasonably-sized. &mdash; Val42 02:01, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge all into one page - We do not need such expanded timeline for every topic Corpx 04:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per all of the above.--JForget 23:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge into a single article per others above Ubi Terrarum 00:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per prior comments.--JayJasper 13:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into one.--Aldux 22:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per Val42. Dean Wormer 05:26, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.