Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McDonald's restaurants

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 Delete and redirect. The section McDonald's#Types_of_restaurants already exists. True, this AfD cannot force anoyone to merge, but any editor is welcome to expand that section now that this article has been deleted. Pastordavid (talk) 17:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] McDonald's restaurants

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Virtually has all the same stuff on McDonald's and has a hidden quote that merger is not a option. It's seems pretty redundant to have 2 articles on the same subject without complementing both articles. Also they're no sources on the page whatsoever which in it self can be deleted. I assume this in good faith and I know about WP:Point. Sawblade05 ^{(talk to me | my wiki life)} 19:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

• Merge or split in a more comprehensive manner. Rich Farmbrough, 19:25 12 December 2007 (GMT).
• (ec)Merge verifiable content (or find sources). When I look over the McDonalds article, there is plenty on McDonalds restaurants. It also seems odd to spin off a restaurants article, as I suppose this is by far the most notable part of McDonalds. If the main article should have anything, it should have something on McDonalds restaurants. The main article isn't that long that it will give rise to unsurmountable problems. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 19:26, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to McDonald's Doc Strange (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with McDonalds. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 21:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as redundant to McDonalds, then redirect to McDonalds. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 22:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge back. The McDonalds article is long, but this was the wrong section to split off. McDonalds is a restaurant; putting information on its characteristics as a restaurant is about as silly as would be splitting Albert Einstein's scientific career from Albert Einstein - the two subjects are inextricably linked. Zetawoof_(ζ) 22:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

  McDonald's is a "restaurant chain" company not a single restaurant. -- Cat ^chi? 11:58, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete and Merge I found the article a few months ago and it was pretty much a directory of every McDonald's that had something other then the standard layout. After removing that list, it doesn't seem to have too much content and could stand to just be merged. SpigotMap 23:52, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per other merge arguments. 203.220.13.61 (talk) 07:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
• Since "merge" is not an option, Move any relevant information into the McDonalds article into an appropriate section, and then create a redirect from this article to that section. --UsaSatsui (talk) 18:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • What you describe seems to be Wikipedia:MERGE#Selective_paste_merger, one of the more common forms of merging. I am not quite sure why merger would not be an option, but you may have the wrong idea of merging. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 19:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Read the nom's comments, then read this. --UsaSatsui (talk) 21:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
      • and after that, read WP:SARCASM. I honostly believed you were misguided here. Tried my best not to WP:BITE Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
        • I thought the comment was blatant enough it would be clear I was kidding around. Sorry. --UsaSatsui (talk) 21:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
          • If you look right here at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McDonald%27s_restaurants&action=edit right below the AFD template and above the restraunt heading, You would see that someone left a comment about it not being a option. Sawblade05 ^{(talk to me | my wiki life)} 00:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge w/McDonald's Ctjf83 ^talk 21:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
• Obviously merge with McDonald's. There is no need to lose information from the article.--Orthologist (talk) 20:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Nothing here is referenced, therefore it is not worth merging. -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. It is the expansion of McDonald's#Types_of_restaurants. An example for expansion would be how these restaurants differ in shape and menu internationally. For example pork is not served in Turkey a as a menu. Indeed article is poorly sourced at the moment but that can be fixed with not a whole lot of effort. A merge is an editorial decision not enforceable by "Articles for deletion" process. -- Cat ^chi? 11:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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.