Template talk:Afd-merge to

Very difficult to use

I have to say, this template is really hard to use, and I don't see myself using this template again. I much prefer mergeto. Not only is it less instrusive to the main articlespace (this infobox is a real monster!), but it's incredibly hard to use when you consider that the main users of this template have to plough through tonnes of AfD closures. The only possible way this template could be used is through a user script, but even then, there's too much information that needs to be pasted. --Deathphoenix ʕ 21:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion continued at Template talk:Afd-mergefrom.

Added a category parameter to supress cats.

Rich Farmbrough, 18:50 20 January 2007 (GMT).

"If the merger is not completed promptly, this article might be re-nominated for deletion."

Shouldn't this sentence be removed, given that
1. There is no deadline.
2. A page that should be merged should not be re-nominated for deletion...because it should just be merged. 160.39.213.152 (talk) 01:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While there is no deadline, any article properly tagged with this template has been nominated for deletion and failed to achieve consensus that it should remain a separate article. The lack of a prompt merger is not a valid deletion rationale, but it is likely to lead to the article's re-nomination for whatever reason it was nominated in the first place. (And because consensus can change, the new deletion request might succeed.) The wording in question serves as a warning of that. —David Levy 04:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- I see, thanks for the explanation. But if the sentence is intended as a warning, isn't it a bit instruction-creepy? It's a matter of course that the article can be renominated for deletion, just like any article can be nominated. 160.39.213.152 (talk) 16:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]