Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Honorary Life Membership


 * 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, move, and redirect. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Honorary Life Membership

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No evidence this is any more notable then any other Honorary Life Membership of any other club or professional body. Slatersteven (talk) 16:35, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 16:48, 1 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge and delete: obviously this should just be a section in International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, with no redirect from such a general term. --JBL (talk) 17:40, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I have done the merge now, all the content (and the ref) is now at the parent article, where it belongs. --JBL (talk) 18:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * So we can delete this one?Slatersteven (talk) 18:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Technically, no, because deleting a page removes its revision history, which violates Wikipedia's licensing rules. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 22:04, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It is not forbidden "This may not be strictly true since attribution of authorship can be maintained in other ways, but it is troublesome and so a merge and delete is not usually done unless there is a specific and pressing problem with the redirect.", " Redirects are cheap, however, and unless the article title is confusing or objectionable, it may be preferable just to leave it as a redirect to the merge target, in which case the usual interpretation of the licensing requirements requires only that the edit summary about the merge states the name of the article from which the merged information is derived." As this clearly meets one of these criteria that (it is confusing, this is not the only such awarded title in the world) if any thing not deleting this contravenes Merge and delete.Slatersteven (talk) 08:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Moving this page to International Association for Mathematical Geosciences Honorary Life Membership (without leaving a redirect) and then turning that page into a redirect would satisfy all the desiderata (preserving revision history, not confusing search engines). There's probably a less arcane way of achieving the same goal, but I don't know what admins have in their toolkit. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 15:14, 2 March 2018 (UTC)


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