Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willie Wolf

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep.

The type of "keep", however, is unclear. Votes and comments were almost exactly evenly split between "keep as is" and "keep as merge". After reviewing both articles (and noting that this one has not been expanded beyond this three-line stub after 3 years as an article), I am going to redirect it. If the content is ever expanded to the point that it no longer fits within the SLA article, it can be broken out as a separate article at that time. Content has not been deleted because it can be recovered from page history by any future reader/editor. Rossami (talk) 04:20, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Willie Wolfe
Willie Wolf is not encyclopedic outside the Symbionese Liberation Army, and can be adequately merged into the Symbionese Liberation Army page. An An 11:15, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nomination typo fixed. Abstain. Radiant_* 11:25, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

keep A biography was written about him: An American Journey: the Short Life of Willy Wolfe, by Max Eastman and published by Simon and Schuster in 1979. Ydorb 14:36, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Another merge candidate, or so it seems. I'm not going to vote on the entire dozen now. Radiant_* 15:48, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable criminal with biography. Capitalistroadster 20:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Why is this a red link? I'm not going to vote on every one of these, but I do hereby declare my vote of merge and redirect for all of them. RickK 22:37, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Seems notable enough. Doing a "merge and delete" is always a loss, because we lose edit histories. "Merge and redirect" is almost as bad. In this case it is especially not adequate to merge, because some of these articles contain explicit person metadata (eg, the birth/death categories). Plus, the SLA article doesn't need this much info about each of it's members, when the info is already well represented in these articles. I don't see how wikipedia would be improved by merging these articles. It certainly isn't harmed by keeping them. ~leif &#9786; (talk) 23:57, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * redirect and delete page content. Wolfe is non-encyclopedic outside of his SLA involvement.  Having a biography published doesn't make one encyclopedic, and the biography can be adequately linked to via the ISBN system on the SLA page.Fifelfoo 00:05, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect Gazpacho 01:49, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Symbionese Liberation Army. JamesBurns 11:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep separate per Leif. Kappa 22:07, 30 May 2005 (UTC)


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