Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philanthropist

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 no consensus to delete. Mergers are not ruled out, but remain an editorial decision. Sandstein 12:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philanthropist

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The definition is redundant per philanthropy and the list is redundant per Category: Philanthropists. Guy (Help!) 11:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• So, like pessimism and pessimist and altruist and altruism, they are Wikipedia:Duplicate articles addressing a single subject that don't need to come to AFD to be merged? ☺ Uncle G 11:35, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Oooh, harsh :-) No, I don't see any need to merge - there's nothing here that needs merging. I guess I could just redirect, but since PROD was removed I anticipate resistance. No separate article is needed, the history is not needed for GFDL (IMO anyway). Delete and redirect is OK by me. Guy (Help!) 13:43, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
    • That's possibly because {{prod}} was the wrong tag for a merger, just as {{afd1}} is. {{mergeto}} is the tag, and probably wouldn't have been removed, in part because it points to the article's talk page where a merger discussion appears to be ongoing. ☺ Uncle G 23:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect per Uncle G. MER-C 11:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Category: Philanthropists only shows names. Many of them are best known (and maybe only got an article) for other reasons. Their philanthropic work may be mentioned in passing in their article but not be particularly notable. Philanthropist can pick more notable philanthropists and give summary information about the nature of their philanthropic work, giving an overview of information which would be time consuming to collect otherwise. Listings with only name were removed December 8. [1]. The subcategory Category:Founders of English schools and colleges and article Founders of English schools and colleges are closer to eachother but the latter still contains extra information. An article also gives other possibilities not in categories (discussed at Talk:Philanthropist). PrimeHunter 23:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect. It seems like it could cause problems, e.g. with redundancy, having two separate articles for philanthropist and philanthropy. PrimeHunter, maybe the idea of creating List of notable philanthropists or some such could be discussed to address your concerns. delldot | talk 00:16, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete. I agree with PrimeHunter's points, but I think it doesn't outweigh the effort of continuously maintaining the article, which is more work than for most other articles since this article has proven to be prone to vanity edits. (Creating "List of notable philanthropists" wouldn't help - it's just a different name for the same thing.) I could be swayed to "keep" if I were convinced that Jerzy and The Transhumanist, who so lovingly improved this article after I informed everybody that I had tagged it with {{prod}}, kept watching over it. This seems to be not the case, seeing that they have not raised their voice here. I don't make a big difference between "merge with philanthropy" and "delete", since there isn't much more text here, and everybody is free to add a sentence or two to the philanthropy article, anyway. — Sebastian 01:56, 22 December 2006 (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.