Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Wilson (hockey)

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 Keep. enochlau (talk) 23:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Wilson (hockey)

I've added the stub content of Ron Wilson (hockey) to a preexisting entry for an NHL player/coach, Ron Wilson.

Having two NHL player/coaches in separate entries, with only one marked "(hockey)", was confusing, and looked at first like entries for the same person. Their birth years are only one digit different, as are their Overall draft positions, either at which, at first glance, could pass for typos. A dual entry follows the style of other such entries as Ghost Rider.

Part Two to this: Deleting "Ron Wilson (hockey)" will allow the current "Ron Wilson" to be be renamed "Ron Wilson (hockey)".

This would be good since there are many, many Ron Wilson entries (see Ron Wilson (disambiguation)) and it makes wikifying other Ron Wilsons problemmatic, since "Ron Wilson" with no qualifier looks like a good blue link, but it currently goes to a hockey entry rather than, more helpfully, the disambig page. -- Tenebrae 21:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: The merger you made has already (and correctly) been reverted by another user, so it wasn't that easy to understand what you were trying to do here. But no, sorry, I think you have misunderstood how bio pages work. You are not supposed to merge several people like this, and neither of these pages is going to be deleted. All that is needed is to rename both articles to something more specific. u p p l a n d 21:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep: Just because the two players have the same name does not mean they are not worthy of their own articles. And the Ron Wilson page is there because he is the most notable of all the Ron Wilson's that had a page. I have now added the little disclaimer at the top of each page. Also they are both listed on NHL players W as two separate articles, so it is not like we are dealing with orphaned pages here. P.S. I did not know this page was even up for deletion until I scrolled the Afd page, so make sure to put the deletion notice on the actual article next time and do it correctly. I just put it on the page now. Croat Canuck 05:36, 5 January 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.