Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Smith Jones/Alan Cabal (journalist)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was merged the histories of this page and the article, and then deleted this page with a link to the article in the reasoning. Daniel (talk) 04:32, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Smith Jones/Alan Cabal (journalist)
I think Smith Jones went on a vaca or something, but we were working on this draft which has now been replaced by the resurrected Alan Cabal article; anyhoo, long story short, this draft is now high up in google rankings when the mainspace article is the one (up-to-date too) that should be at #1 or so. please delete this old draft. thanks Manhattan Samurai (talk) 00:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - It looks like the current article is based on a copy and pasted version of the sandbox. If that's the case, the history from the sandbox should be merged into the actual article (then the resulting redirect deleted). Mr.Z-man 00:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * actually, didn't want all those dinky little edits to go into mainspace. like a draft? but actually the old article history is there too. I say just zap it, unless? Manhattan Samurai (talk) 00:29, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Those "dinky little edits" (especially the ones before the move to userspace) are required for GFDL attribution. Mr.Z-man 22:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Alan Cabal. This will hide it from web crawlers.  Keep the redirect to keep the contribution history available as the easiest was to satisfy the GFDL.  Optionally, If you don't like it staying in userspace move the redirect to something like Talk:Alan Cabal/Userfied draft.  Merging of the histories could be a good idea.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * OKAY, OKAY So there are three parts here: the entire history before deletion, the userpage draft we worked on here, the continuation where the Alan Cabal article was re-introduced to mainspace. Can someone actually merge all three stages of the article's history? Do that, and I think we'll all be happy. But it would be great if all drafts, forget redirects, where annihilated. One article, one history, one google listing. Manhattan Samurai (talk) 01:05, 23 July 2008 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.