Wiki143:Articles for deletion/History of Manchester United

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 Redirect to Manchester United F.C.. — Scientizzle 18:48, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

History of Manchester United

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There are now four separate articles chronicling the history of Manchester United F.C. in a more detailed fashion. This article is rarely updated and is now largely redundant. PeeJay 22:19, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: The articles referenced by the nominator are apparently as follows:
  • Manchester United pre-1945
  • Manchester United 1945-1969
  • Manchester United 1969-1986
  • Manchester United 1986-1998
  • Manchester United 1999-present

This is a reasonable merge proposal. Instead of deleting the main article outright, it needs to be trimmed according to Wikipedia:Summary style. YechielMan 22:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment: There's also Manchester United 1998-1999.  slυмgυм [ ←→ ] 20:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

• Edit the article as proposed by YechielMan. There is not anything to discuss here. DGG 00:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: I'm not having much luck with identifying stuff that should be deleted here :( - PeeJay 00:59, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment Wouldn't it make sense to turn this into an index, list page or overview for the five child articles? Resolute 04:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm erring towards this idea, tbh. That's what they've done for the History of Arsenal F.C. articles, so I think that's what we should do here. - PeeJay 11:37, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd also support this idea. WATP ^(talk) • _(contribs) 11:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

• This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude 07:13, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

• Merge - merge all the five above articles and this one into History of Manchester United F.C.. GiantSnowman 20:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Not really an option as the article would be well over 200kb in size. - PeeJay 20:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect to Manchester United F.C., which already contains a summary style version of the history. Oldelpaso 09:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Manchester United F.C.. An adequate summary of the 6 articles exists there. Not too keen on the Index proposal, as it provides unnecessary duplication and an extra page to navigate. slυмgυм [ ←→ ] 20:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Manchester United F.C.. This article is largely redundant, as can be seen by 'what links here'. Dave101→talk  08:51, 28 June 2007 (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.