Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Presidents of The George Washington University


 * 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 of the debate was. Speedy merged. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 09:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Presidents of The George Washington University
I don't see this merits its own article (and if it did it should be called "List of...". I think notable people should be merged with George Washington University and this article deleted. └UkPaolo/TALK┐ 16:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * There are other similar articles, such as President of Harvard University, but that one has more content. If it is merged, it should be redirected, not deleted. (Abstaining for now.) u p p l a n d 17:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * President of Harvard University does indeed have more content, and is quite a nice little article. If there is sufficient to say about the role of president at George Washington, perhaps a similar article at President of Washington University could be created... with the current info, however, I think a merger with the university article would be best. └UkPaolo/TALK┐ 17:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. --Bachrach44 17:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete is impossible (or at least very complicated), because it violates the GFDL &mdash; we'd be using content but no longer crediting its author. If we merge, the original article should remain as a redirect.  In any case, AfD is not the place for merges.  I believe the ever-increasing trend towards nominator voting has fuelled this misconception: people think their nomination is no different from any other vote; it requires no more effort, and provides no less in the way of options.  If you nominate an article for deletion, it means you want the article deleted, or, if not, are acting in proxy for someone who does.  It's bad enough trying to vote instead of writing a nomination for an article, without then making your vote "merge".  Merges can be carried out without AfD. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Then perhaps "merge" wasn't the right way of expressing what I thought should happen. I feel the article should be deleted because "i don't see it merits its own article" per nomination. I made the point that IF (and it is an if, I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to know) any of these people need to be listed they should be added to the university article. Doing so wouldn't violate the GFDL (edit histories could be merged if the need be) but in any case - it is purely a list of names which we are talking about, so there is no "original content" with which an author needs credit. I'm not in favour of a simple "copy and paste content to other article and make this a redirect" or I would not have listed on AfD. └UkPaolo/TALK┐ 19:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. To Fuddlemark -- Merging is one of the legitimate vote options available on AFD - please read the introduction to the section. If you feel it should no longer be an option, I invite you to propose a change to the AFD process. 23skidoo 22:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I am well aware of the options available on AfD, thanks. Merge is a legitimate option on AfD, yes; but we do not list articles that we want merged.  We merge them instead.  AfD is articles for deletion, not articles that should have something drastic done to them but I don't know what.  Following on from "don't nominate merges", you can expect "don't nominate stuff you just want cleaned up" and "don't nominate stuff you don't want deleted just to make a point", coming soon to a theatre near you. 'Course, as I mentioned above, if we didn't have a large subset of nominators attempting to vote instead of writing a decent nomination, this would probably cut down on the problem a little bit.  fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 03:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The main George Washington University article already has too many lists. --Oldak Quill 03:41, 14 December 2005 (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.