Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rank and file (chess)

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 Chess, with no apparent support for preserving/merging the content, thus delete, then redirect. Concerns regarding its usefulness should be handled by RFD. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 09:42, Dec. 25, 2005

[edit] Rank and file (chess)

• Delete; provides no additional meaning beyond what is already covered in the main Chess article. choster 01:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment If that is true, you could have just redirected it to chess without much trouble. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• • Why, so somebody else could re-list it under RFD? - choster 03:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect, because it helps keep the AFD page smaller and it makes it less likely that the article will be recreated. Pburka 03:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. We already had a separate article for File (chess) and I just created Rank (chess) both redirecting to Chess terminology. I really don't see the use for this title. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I can hardly imagine people will read "Rank and File" somewhere and wonder what game it is about. So a redirect would be rather pointless. Nazgjunk - - Signing is ^{for Whimps} 11:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Mgm, and also change the disambiguation on the main rank and file article, which points to this. I am moved to curiosity as to how ranks and files on a chessboard relate to the stock expression "rank and file", though. Smerdis of Tlön 15:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Chess, no need to merge, because the contents are already covered. — JIP | Talk 18:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Chess and add a disambiguation page for the military term rank and file and the union term rank and file membership in addition to the chess usage. B.Wind 01:34, 16 December 2005 (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.