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The result was procedural close. Article already merged and redirected Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:56, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I have copied the article into the article about the theater troupe to deal with this subject's lack of notability. Us441(talk)(contribs) 17:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:10, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed you have, and your action prevents the deletion of this edit history, per the requirements of our copyright licences. Remember this for the future: Deletion, and AFD, form no part of the article merger process. Uncle G (talk) 19:52, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I want to actually delete this article, now that the copying has taken place. Us441(talk)(contribs) 21:42, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- That's not how the article merger process works, nor is deleting the author attribution of content that you've copied into another article permissible under our copyright licences. Once again: Deletion, and AFD, form no part of the article merger process. Uncle G (talk) 22:32, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I am totally puzzled. Us441(talk)(contribs) 13:17, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- That's not how the article merger process works, nor is deleting the author attribution of content that you've copied into another article permissible under our copyright licences. Once again: Deletion, and AFD, form no part of the article merger process. Uncle G (talk) 22:32, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I want to actually delete this article, now that the copying has taken place. Us441(talk)(contribs) 21:42, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Since you have copied the content from this article to another ___location, Wikipedia has to keep the page history intact, so deletion is not an option. It's better to redirect now. See Wikipedia:Merge and delete. NotARealWord (talk) 19:15, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- (after edit conflict) Carefully reading the link provided twice above by Uncle G should cure your puzzlement. All content in Wikipedia must be attributed to its original author, and the standard way of doing that is to redirect the article from which content has been merged to the merge target, and note in the edit summary of the target article where the content came from. Deleting the "from" article would destroy the attribution that is required for copyright purposes. I have performed the edits needed to conform with our copyright licence, and which should have been made as part of the merging process. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep as a redirect to conserve the edit history. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I learned something new from this. Us441(talk)(contribs) 14:04, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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