Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political positions of Ann Coulter


 * 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 Ann Coulter. If and what to merge from history can be hashed out through the editorial process.  Sandstein  09:40, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Political positions of Ann Coulter

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I think this article can be merged into Ann Coulter biography. It doesn't warrant a separate article. Liz Read! Talk! 01:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * delete and merge to her biography Totally agree, her views are not notable enough for a separate article from her biography. Govindaharihari (talk) 09:17, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: As pointed out above, "delete and merge" is not a valid course of action here. Relisting as it's not clear which option is preferred; deletion or redirect/merge. Lankiveil (speak to me) 06:02, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge. No need for the extra article. Andrew327 11:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete -- not sufficiently notable for a second article. It doesn't help that someone using Ann Coulter's initials is responsible for most of the content... Nomoskedasticity (talk) 22:58, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. You can't delete an article and then merge the content elsewhere. You would need to merge the content and then redirect it to preserve attribution. Also, AfD is not the place to propose merges - it should be done on the article's talk page. --Michig (talk) 06:31, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The content that was in the bio before it was moved here and more than tripled in size was replaced to her bio on July 16, see Ann_Coulter, so there is nothing to merge back as it seems clear that this amount of commentary on her opinions politically is excessive. Govindaharihari (talk) 07:12, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lankiveil (speak to me) 06:02, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Lankiveil - It has already been re-merged back - have a look yourself - this is where wikipedia falls on its face, after over ten days, with no support to keep, some anon user (Lankiveil) comes along and extends the worthless discussion for another ten days and then it is finally removed from web searches. - Create a redirect if you want, just delete this unduly promotional content asap and move on Govindaharihari (talk) 06:40, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The relisting of this discussion was correct. One of the 5 pillars of Wikipedia is that "Wikipedia is free content", and that means everything we write is freely usable as long as you attribute the content to the authors. When you merge an article's content to another article, the source article's contribution history needs to be kept because it has all the author's names, which are legally required for attribution. When a closing admin is faced with !votes like "delete and merge", they are understandably confused because the two simply cannot it is very difficult for the two to occur together. Mz7 (talk) 02:49, 1 August 2015 (UTC), revised 03:12, 2 August 2015 (UTC)


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