Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mercer Bay
- 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 Te Unuhanga-a-Rangitoto / Mercer Bay. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 20:34, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
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Per WP:ONEOTHER; this page should be deleted and redirected to Te Unuhanga-a-Rangitoto / Mercer Bay as the primary topic for this River.
The topic which this is competing with, a Mercer Bay in Cumberland West Bay, is an obscure location that doesn't even warrant an article. Further, a Google News search for the past year finds no results for the bay in Cumberland West Bay, but over a dozen for Unuhanga-a-Rangitoto / Mercer Bay. BilledMammal (talk) 04:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Disambiguations. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- A redirect does not require deleting an edit history first, and could have been done with 1⁄3 the number of edits that an AFD nomination takes. This is not an appropriate use of Articles for deletion. Uncle G (talk) 10:23, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- To clarify, I intended to propose a redirect; I agree that the edit history doesn't need to be deleted.
However, AfD can be used to propose redirects; I expected that if I made this boldly it would be reverted or otherwise objected to and so I wanted to get consensus for it, and this is the appropriate venue for that. BilledMammal (talk) 11:11, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- No, that would be Talk:Mercer Bay. You are utterly wasting people's time, everyone who even looks at this, with a simple disambiguation fix that you could have just done. Uncle G (talk)
- To clarify, I intended to propose a redirect; I agree that the edit history doesn't need to be deleted.
- 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.