Talk:Colin Pine

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This article was nominated for deletion on 11 May 2006. The result of the discussion was merge and redirect to Yao Ming.

I'm speeding up the process since this article is unlikely to be deleted but people are suggesting to merge it with Yao Ming. I do not think this is a good idea since there is a good amount of material here that is not pertinent to Yao Ming himself. It would make for an extremely awkward fit.--DownUnder555 18:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Save the Pine trees. Let he who would merge show how it could be reasonably done. 140.112.185.129 07:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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Please discuss whether or not this article should be merged with Yao Ming. I'm coming from the Yao Ming side where I think it's a tree in a desert, and the amount of material for an independent article seems reasonable enough to me. We will discuss for one week following the time stamp of my sig, and follow whatever the consensus is. Piepukipie 09:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

It's obvious that I support keeping an independent article. To reiterate, the article was initially marked for deletion. At the time, the article was extremely short. Even still, most votes came in to merge, with some to keep. Afterwards, the article was expanded, but no new votes came in. Further, there's an issue with making a simple merge with the Yao Ming article, since a lot of the information is relevant to Pine and not Yao. Two additional points. There's a Chinese page on Pine that is tiny! but it survived AfD. Second, Pine is famous, regardless of how he became famous, and now there's enough about his life that it can really stand as its own article.

For mainly the reason that people voted on was much shorter than the now expanded article, we are having this discussion on whether or not to merge this larger article with Yao Ming.--DownUnder555 14:35, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Discussion ended. Looks like no one had any problems. Piepukipie 07:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)