Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northlands Pony


 * 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 Nordlandshest/Lyngshest. Tone 12:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Northlands Pony

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This article appears to be a wrongly named duplicate of the Nordlandshest article. To my knowledge, there is absolutely no Norwegian horse breed by the name of "Northlands Pony". Norway has three national horse breeds: Dole Horse, Fjord Horse and Nordlandshest (whose "English" name, if translated, would mean something along the lines of Northlands Pony). Article's content is very similar to the article on the Nordlandshest. Article's author appears not to have realised that an article about the pony is already in existence, and created a page on the horse with an English name. Content in article already exists in the Nordlandshest article.) Nimloth250 (talk) 14:50, 30 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge - Rather than deleting, what about just merging with the Nordlandshest article and making this a redirect? That's what we normally do with horse breeds articles when there are multiple articles on the same breed. That makes it less likely that an editor will come back in and re-create the page on the erronous assumption that it's a different breed. Also, it would probably be best to add something into the Nordlandshest article on how the English name would be "Northlands Pony". Dana boomer (talk) 17:32, 30 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Support Merge And I have so tagged it accordingly. Seems some worthwhile prehistory content in this article that does not exist in the other.  Montanabw (talk) 07:18, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Anyone opposed? Montanabw (talk) 18:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The English name wouldn't necessarily be "Northlands Pony" -- as the other article says, a more adequate translation is "Horse from Nordland". But that is irrelevant; if the vote is merge then so be it, I suppose. Nimloth250 (talk) 12:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)Nimloth250
 * Comment Google count: "Northlands pony": 994 hits. "Northlands horse": 2.120 hits. "Lyngshest": 12.800 hits. "Nordlandshest": 18.700 hits. All search terms were enclosed in double quotes. - Soulkeeper (talk) 18:18, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I merged the text of Northlands pony into the Nordlandshest/Lyngshest article, so if consensus is to merge, the text itself is already merged and all that needs to be done is to put the redirect tag into the article.  Montanabw (talk) 00:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support merge. - Soulkeeper (talk) 15:55, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
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