Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of awards and nominations received by Kerry Ellis


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 17:39, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Kerry Ellis

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Content has been merged into Kerry Ellis. This page is no longer necessary. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 10:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The reason this page is still necessary is because of our copyright licencing rules. We need to retain the history for attribution purposes.  Redirect and keep the history under the redirect.  Deleting the page would require a history merge, a somewhat complex task that only an administrator can perform, and runs counter to policy in any case (see WP:ATD: there is a reasonable alternative to deletion, which is to redirect, so we prefer the alternative to the deletion).— S Marshall  T/C 13:55, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I suggested deletion rather than redirection because the article title is an unlikely search term and the only inward links are from a template. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 14:01, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not the point, I'm afraid. (Other "delete" arguments below also fail to grok it.)  The merge has already happened, and an improved version of the content with references is now available in the main article, but, User:Stephenjamesx who wrote this bit still deserves credit.  See the Terms of use.  If there's a compelling reason for deletion then a history merge must be performed, but nobody's mentioned one yet.  All the grounds for deletion cited, above and below, revolve around the idea that it's not necessary to keep the page.  It's a wholly mistaken idea, but even if it was true, "not necessary to keep" does not mean the same thing as "necessary to delete".— S Marshall  T/C 18:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * As the sole author, Stephenjamesx would be adequately attributed (List of authors) if he used an edit summary like " merged content from List of awards and nominations received by Kerry Ellis, all contributed by myself " when merging. I added a dummy edit to provide attribution explicitly. Flatscan (talk) 05:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's a neat trick with the dummy edit! Yes, that does seem quite satisfactory.— S Marshall  T/C 13:48, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete As it stands, the article is wholly unsourced, and I don't see anything requiring preservation of article history. It can be deleted without much ado. Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 14:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete already covered (and better formatted) at Kerry_Ellis, so no merge or redirect is necessary. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  16:06, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:12, 18 January 2011 (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.