Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poison Mushroom

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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Super Mushroom. -Splash^talk 00:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poison Mushroom

Nonsense about Super Mario. Delete. Grandmasterka 00:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as non-notable. —This user has left wikipedia 01:13 2006-02-02
• Delete as per above. Dustimagic *\o/* ^{(talk/contribs)} *\o/* 01:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Contrary to the nominator's statement, the article is quite accurate, although it fails to mention that poison mushrooms showed up in the Lost Levels, as well. However, it's also completely non-notable. Delete or possibly Redirect to Toadstool. Vanigo 02:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Super Mushroom, which talks about the subject in question (also note Mushroom (Mario), a dupe). Nifboy 02:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Super Mushroom. Royboycrashfan 05:10, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Super Mushroom. –Sommers ^(Talk) 05:45, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per above. Arbustoo 06:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect I guess although it begs the question because a Poison Mushroom is nothing like a Super Mushroom. I'm not even that hardcore of a mario fan and I know that. Savidan 07:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment: It should belong in the "other mushrooms" section. Fetofs ^Hello! 10:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Super Mushroom. Fetofs ^Hello! 10:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redorect to Super Mushroom. --Terence Ong (恭喜发财) 13:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect as per everybody. This info is already there in slightly better form. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Mushroom (Mario) - surely that's the more general topic that Super Mushroom should be merged into? ←Hob 21:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Toadstool. It does not make sense to redirect a generic term to an article about an item in a video game. Just because the article is about Super Mario right now doesn't mean that the term poison mushroom ought to redirect to an article about Super Mario. I'm going to be bold and redirect it myself. NoIdeaNick 22:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
  • It seems as if there is no way to do this without removing the AfD notice, which I had not intended to do, so I'll wait until after the debate closes.

NoIdeaNick 23:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Mushroom poisoning (as poisonous mushroom already does). Nick is absolutely right, having a term like this redirect to videogamecruft is a really bad idea. -R. fiend 23:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Changed my vote to redirect to Mushroom poisoning, merging current content into Mushroom (Mario). But then the lowercase version, poison mushroom, needs a redirect too. ←Hob 06:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Not a valid choice. If we merge anything, the article must redirect to the merge target, to comply with the GFDL. Stifle 23:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Perhaps, I'm wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. My understanding is that the original edit history has to be retained and the target article has to acknowledge that it used material from the source article. There aren't any restrictions on what the source article is redirected to, at least not in terms of complying with the GDFL. That's only my understanding though. If someone else knows that I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. NoIdeaNick 01:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
• Disambiguate with links to Mushroom poisoning and Mushroom (Mario). Stifle 16:40, 3 February 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.