Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solomon Bandaranaike

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The result of the debate was Duplicate articles, resolving with a history merge --Allen3 ^talk 12:38, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Solomon Bandaranaike

This page contains identical information to the page Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. There is no point having two articles for the same person, one using his full name and one just using a shortened form of his name. Because of this, I would suggest that this page is deletedVino s 18:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Please read Wikipedia:duplicate articles, which is there for exactly this situation. There is no requirement for articles to be deleted in this circumstance. Indeed, someone had already done the very work required until this edit undid it. You could simply have reverted Adam Carr (talk • contribs) in one edit instead of nominating the article for deletion in three. ☺ Uncle G 19:00:46, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
• Given that a Google search shows significantly more results for the shorter name rather than the longer one, I think we should look at having the longer name as a redirect to the shorter name. Capitalistroadster 00:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Note that the history shows a cut-and-paste move from this (the original) title to the longer one on Jan. 12, 2005. A history merge would probably me a good idea. Uppland 06:28, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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