Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Substrate (materials science)

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The result was Nomination withdrawn. Article has been merged by the nominator. The article has to remain as a redirect for GFDL compliance. See WP:MAD. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:00, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Substrate (materials science)

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This article is just a dictionary entry with a list of coating processes that can be applied to a substrate. Seeing how the article list of coating techniques already exists, I propose that the list is merged into that and the remaining article deleted. Wizard191 (talk) 16:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This doesn't need an AfD: suggest a merge and redirect on the article's talkpage, and if there are no objections go ahead and do it. --Paularblaster (talk) 16:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well after the merge is completed I feel the article should be deleted, because a redirect to list of coating techniques is pretty misleading. Wizard191 (talk) 17:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki to Wiktionary. --Polaron | Talk 02:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - the article is useless as it is. A redirect to list of coating techniques would not look awkward to me. Agree that this is hardly an Afd issue - if consensus is needed for merging, here it is. My only reason for not deleting the article is that the topic of the article is very well valid, and newcomers might be discouraged to recreate an article after deletion. Materialscientist (talk) 02:02, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect – to (a newly created, stubby section of) Coating and printing processes, itself a stub but a far better target than List of coating techniques. --Lambiam 20:00, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Close - please close this AfD as I have merged the contents into list of coating techniques and added a redirect to it per the advice above. Lambiam - if you feel that the info will also fit into the coating and printing processes article as well feel free to copy the list there as well. Wizard191 (talk) 22:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If page A redirects to page B, then the Principle of least astonishment requires that the reader should find the topic given by the title of page A discussed somewhere on target page B; ideally, it should figure in the lede and be presented there in bold (see WP:R#PLA). However, the word "substrate" does not even occur in List of coating techniques, and the reader redirected there by clicking on the link "substrate" while reading the article Immunoprecipitation may be most astonished. --Lambiam 06:20, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This was my point exactly. I feel that the article should be deleted, because there isn't a good article to redirect it to. Even though the article that you recommended mentions the word I don't feel that takes the place of an article that addresses the full concept of a substrate. If it isn't deleted then it ought to be turned into a soft redirect to the wiktionary entry. Wizard191 (talk) 13:12, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.