Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Borland (2nd nomination)


 * 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   merge to List of Home Improvement characters. ( X! ·  talk )  · @447  · 09:44, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Al Borland
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I am also nominating the following related pages:

redundant - articles have been merged to List of Home Improvement characters - the pages for Mark Taylor Brad Taylor and Wilson Wilson have already been merged to one article, these have been left behind. Ejfetters (talk) 23:58, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * So merge them if you want them merged, just as was already done once before. AFD and deletion are not any part of any stage of the article merger process. Uncle G (talk) 00:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep/merge as above- these were well known character's on a major tv show, some coverage here is warranted. If we can't find enough to fill out full articles, then a merge is fine. But deletion really isn't the way to go in a situation like this. Umbralcorax (talk) 01:10, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * merge, with a strong recommendation to include more of the material than for the ones you mentioned. DGG (talk) 03:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * they were already merged but these three articles got left behind. don't see anything else here that isn't in-universe information that needs to be merged, they are covered enough... shall i just make these a redirect then? Ejfetters (talk) 07:20, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep/merge- The previous merge of Al Borland was defective because, instead of merging to List of Home Improvement characters, it was blanked and then erroneously redirected to Home Improvement. The Home Improvement article has only a short six-word description of Al Borland whereas the List of Home Improvement characters page has a much longer, detailed description. Since new or better information may have been added on (at) the page being proposed for deletion, a simple redirect is inappropriate. An actual merging of content to the Al Borland subsection of the List of Home Improvement characters page, and then a redirect from the existing Al Borland page would seem to be the proper procedure. If a person has deletion fever and can't be bothered with the actual editing work a need to resolve this quickly, then paste the current contents of the Al Borland page to the List of Home Improvement characters talk page and let other editors pick through it to perform an actual merging via word-for-word comparison. This recommendation is also applicable to the other Home Improvement character individual pages which are included above in the OP's proposed deletion request. Joe Hepperle (talk) 07:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge - per nom. Rlendog (talk) 15:27, 10 July 2009 (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.