Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Nintendo portable consoles


 * 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 redirect to Game Boy line. To preserve WP:Attribution history. czar 17:49, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Comparison of Nintendo portable consoles

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This article has been split into three articles: Game Boy line, Nintendo DS line, and Nintendo 3DS family Rukario -sama   ^ㅈ^ -(...)  20:11, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2016 June 26.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 20:48, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:43, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:43, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep only as a salted redirect to keep the edit history. If the article has been split up, its likely going to be impossible to separate the contributions from all relevant editors in the splits that a history merge-type process won't work easily. A redirect keeps that history. (The redirect could simply go to Nintendo) --M ASEM (t) 01:46, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Really haven't thought of that. I will do as you said. Rukario -sama   ^ㅈ^ -(...)  02:17, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect was undone. I assumed that was to do with AfD tags that I deleted. Anyway can I undo my AfD request? Rukario -sama   ^ㅈ^ -(...)  09:34, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge to Comparison of handheld game consoles which is more general though I would not be shocked if this was kept.
 * A few significant modifications to an AfDed article, such as redirecting it, are Bad Things (tm). I reverted your edit. Please wait until the AfD ends, because the final consensus may disagree with the construction that Masem proposed. You cannot withdraw an AfD once it started except if everyone else wants to keep (and Masem's !vote is not really a keep).
 * I could not see where the split was performed in the edit history of the three articles you mentioned, but if it is the case, I encourage you to use Template:Copied (or similar) to provide attribution, per WP:COPYWITHIN. Tigraan Click here to contact me 09:38, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This article has been split as copy (maybe that's what you have overlooked) into three articles and little changes was made to it since 2013. It's just headaches to have two. There was no discussion made to that split proposal though. I don't know what is more right, but it's not good to have two. I'm in favor of keeping edit history as I think we have yet to inherit new changes from this article to the three articles. My current position is to keep as redirect. Rukario -sama   ^ㅈ^ -(...)  10:19, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I assumed that the split had to be recent and looked only at the 100 last edits on each page. My bad.
 * I agree with you, either we re-merge or we totally split. The children articles are big enough to stand by themselves (per WP:SIZESPLIT), the only thing that worries me is what we redirect to, especially in the light of the edit history to keep. Maybe keep as a pseudo-DAB page? Tigraan Click here to contact me 15:24, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It's alright. We only have to purge the original article and replace it with a redirect or a disambiguation solution. I think the latter is better because it can let people know the original article has been split into multiple articles mentioned and don't automatically redirect before trying to open the edit history. Rukario -sama   ^ㅈ^ -(...)  00:56, 28 June 2016 (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.