Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patricia Soltysik

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep.

The type of "keep", however, is unclear. Votes and comments were about evenly split between "keep as is" and "keep as merge". After reviewing both articles (and noting that this one was not expanded during most of its 3 years as an article and that the recent expansion consisted of the addition of trivia which I would not anticipate to survive the normal edit process), I am going to redirect it. If the content is ever expanded with relevant and verifiable information to the point that it no longer fits within the SLA article, it can be broken out as a separate article at that time. Rossami (talk) 04:26, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Patricia Soltysik

Patricia Soltysik is not encyclopedic outside the Symbionese Liberation Army, and can be adequately merged into the Symbionese Liberation Army page An An 11:21, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

keep or at least merge, it contains information not on the SLA page Ydorb 14:45, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep as per above. Capitalistroadster 20:44, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems notable enough. Doing a "merge and delete" is always a loss, because we lose edit histories. "Merge and redirect" is almost as bad. In this case it is especially not adequate to merge, because some of these articles contain explicit person metadata (eg, the birth/death categories). Plus, the SLA article doesn't need this much info about each of it's members, when the info is already well represented in these articles. I don't see how wikipedia would be improved by merging these articles. It certainly isn't harmed by keeping them. ~leif ☺ _(talk) 23:56, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
• redirect and delete page content. Soltysik is unencyclopedic outside her involvement in the SLA, her involvement in the SLA is fully covered on the SLA page. loss on non-encyclopedic content isn't a loss to wikipedia.Fifelfoo 00:00, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: notable (notorious), verifiable, and encyclopedic — Osama bin Laden is unencyclopedic outside his terrorist activities ➥the Epopt 00:26, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/redirect. Osama is a very public propagandist for al-Qaeda. The members of the SLA concealed their identity. Gazpacho 01:52, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable figure. Sjakkalle 07:00, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Symbionese Liberation Army. JamesBurns 11:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; what leif said. --Theaterfreak64 02:23, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and do not merge. How are we supposed to figure out why she became a terrorist if we don't know her background?Kappa 21:51, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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