Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Former Commonwealth monarchies


 * 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   keep. A more appropriate venue for a merge discussion would be on the talk page of one of the articles. ‑Scottywong | soliloquize _ 02:17, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Former Commonwealth monarchies
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These pages are all very similar to one another and also duplicate material found in other articles. As of now, only one has any sources. As I suspect that there will be resistance to deletion, I am suggesting from the outset that they be merged into other articles, as below. I appreciate that deletion discussions do not generally propose merging from the start, but I suspect that the proposal will be controversial and this is one way to ensure wide consensus. DrKiernan (talk) 18:47, 18 July 2014 (UTC)



Merge into:
 * The Gambia (Commonwealth realm)
 * Ghana (Commonwealth realm)
 * Guyana (Commonwealth realm)
 * Dominion of India
 * Kenya (Commonwealth realm)
 * Malawi (Commonwealth realm)
 * State of Malta
 * Mauritius (Commonwealth realm)
 * Federation of Nigeria
 * Dominion of Pakistan
 * Sierra Leone (Commonwealth realm)
 * Tanganyika
 * Trinidad and Tobago (Commonwealth realm)
 * Uganda (Commonwealth realm)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:27, 19 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan, and India. All of them can be expanded to cover local monarchs: interesting relevant video for Ghana, photographs for Nigeria, and List of princely states of India for India and Pakistan.  The same is probably true about many or most of the others, but I don't know for sure and thus can't say.  Nyttend (talk) 01:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Nigerian traditional rulers, Ashanti Empire, etc. have clear scopes and there is more than enough information for the articles on the local traditional monarchies to remain separate. The material in the articles listed for merging is specifically about the immediate post-colonial arrangement of retaining the British monarch as head of state. If the articles listed for merging are kept then the articles on traditional rulers should be linked as either a hatnote or a see also rather than duplicated. DrKiernan (talk) 07:02, 20 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MrScorch6200  (talk &#124; ctrb) 15:47, 26 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge as suggested. I checked out the Kenya article only and it is clear that this information should be already in the article(s) on the history of Kenya. I don't see any value in drawing out the one time period and having an article on it.  In the USA there is a three month period when a new president has been elected but the old president is still in office.  WP doesn't have articles on these and to me this seems like much the same thing. Kitfoxxe (talk) 20:02, 26 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep per WP:SK, "The nominator ... fails to advance an argument for deletion—perhaps only proposing a non-deletion action such as moving or merging...". Andrew (talk) 22:43, 26 July 2014 (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.